Blocking iPlayer
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From: Chris Davies on 13 Nov 2009 08:16 >> Is 20GB/month stingy, really? Dave Liquorice <allsortsnotthisbit(a)howhill.com> wrote: > It is when you start to use iPlayer for more than just catching up > with an odd programme here or there. A single half hour programme > takes 700 odd MB. I don't know what quality you're downloading with, but Spooks is around 370MB on my system. Not HD but perfectly acceptable nonetheless. Does offpeak count towards your 20GB? If not, take a look at get_iplayer: you can schedule it to run your iPlayer downloads overnight. Chris
From: Chris on 13 Nov 2009 09:36 Dave Liquorice wrote: > On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:04:12 +0000, Chris wrote: > >> Is 20GB/month stingy, really? > > It is when you start to use iPlayer for more than just catching up > with an odd programme here or there. A single half hour programme > takes 700 odd MB. Then, you're classed as a 'heavy user', are you not? We don't know how much the OP is paying, but it comes down to cost. If you're paying £30pm then yes, it's stingy, but at £15pm, I think not. If you want more, you pay more. Which is the point, I guess, that the OP doesn't want to pay more. -- The email address is a spam trap. I rarely use it.
From: Simon J. Rowe on 13 Nov 2009 13:53 Chris Davies wrote: > Does > offpeak count towards your 20GB? If not, take a look at get_iplayer: > you can schedule it to run your iPlayer downloads overnight. My ISP has no concept of 'off-peak'. The kids sit on one of several laptops or desktops and consume episode after episode of Dr Who etc. I'm going to experiment with squid, after I've upgraded the server. It might also save me some bandwidth as regards the static stuff that gets pulled down. Simon
From: alexd on 13 Nov 2009 16:54 Meanwhile, at the uk.comp.os.linux Job Justification Hearings, Chris chose the tried and tested strategy of: > If you're paying �30pm then yes, it's stingy, but at �15pm, I think not. If > you want more, you pay more. For �17.50 he could have Be with no limits. -- <http://ale.cx/> (AIM:troffasky) (UnSoEsNpEaTm(a)ale.cx) 21:52:10 up 26 days, 23:52, 4 users, load average: 0.72, 0.50, 0.32 "Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice" -- Wiley Miller
From: Nix on 14 Nov 2009 17:22
On 12 Nov 2009, Mike Civil spake thusly: > In article <87zl6rri5i.fsf(a)spindle.srvr.nix>, > Nix <$}xinix{$@esperi.org.uk> wrote: >>It mystifies me why beating people up is believed to be a good way to >>adjust their behaviour: nobody would consider it acceptable on a >>twenty-year-old, who can defend himself, so why would you consider it >>acceptable here? If they're old enough to have language, use it! (Being >>old enough to use a web browser and navigate youtube implies old enough >>to have language in my book.) > > I think your humour bypass op may be considered a total success:) The thing is, I've encountered actual real people who suggest this with every appearance of seriousness. Maybe they're all secret wits but I doubt it. |