NZFF

...but I'm still around, I just won't be on the net much.
I've been getting by with my 40GB/month plan, but I knew at some stage I'd have to update it, especially with the rise of streaming TV services like Netflix. However I was making do, except that March caught me out with the Lightbox trial, which just ate through most of my allowance in a couple of days, so I gave up on that. I did go over my 40GB, and had to pay an extra $14, so I just just thought I had to be more careful. In April I monitored everything, and planned to get through the month under the 40GB, but on the second to last day of the month I suddenly went over by 5GB. I contacted TelstraclearVodafone in the hope that they could figure out what had happened, but no joy.

Since then I've been monitoring my usage very closely, and a couple of days ago I noticed that over two hours I'd used 20GB! Turns out my Nvidia updater was just going crazy now and then, and from a check on the web, a lot of people are having this problem.

So now I'm giving up the net for a couple of weeks. Well, as much as I can, I still need to upload Issue 9, but no streaming, no youtube, definitely no Skype, just checking email occasionally.

I will be keeping an eye on NZFF via Tapatalk, so I shouldn't miss anything on the Godzone forum, but if anything does crop up which I could help with, maybe a PM would be a good idea.

See you all in a couple of weeks.

Only finding out I'm up to a 80GB within the next week .. from last week .. cheeky buggers scoring moneys .. but OH WELL least I'm in the Groove for the next few years.

Well, I've been trying to keep off the net for the last week, it's been an education. Some of the things I've learnt:

• I really needed to work hard to remember what we did before the net.
• One thing I used to do was read -- it was really difficult to get back into, a book seems rather awkward now, and I couldn't keep enough concentration to actually enjoy it to start with -- I kept on having to re-read entire chapters just to understand what was going on. Now, though, I'm back to normal, being able to read for hours, and enjoy it.
• Reading is still a lot more immersive than any other form of entertainment -- to the extent that coupled with my medication, the processing which goes on in my dreams is kinda overpowering. Beta blockers = vivid dreams; beta blockers plus reading scifi before bed = way-out, crazy, vivid dreams.
• I only made it a couple of days before going onto a rationed web -- no streaming TV, no Spotify, no Youtube -- but low-bandwidth things are ok.
• Uploading the Subscription was the biggest single use of bandwidth, can't be helped
• Yesterday I spent a couple of hours on Skype talking to my daughter, that's 1GB apparently..,
• There's nothing worthwhile on NZ television now, I've been too spoilt by Netflix. Weekend movies are all done-to-death repeats.

toprob wrote:.I really needed to work hard to remember what we did before the net.

I was simply told I had to much time to spend.

.One thing I used to do was read -- it was really difficult to get back into, a book seems rather awkward now, and I couldn't keep enough concentration to actually enjoy it to start with -- I kept on having to re-read entire chapters just to understand what was going on. Now, though, I'm back to normal, being able to read for hours, and enjoy it.
. Reading is still a lot more immersive than any other form of entertainment -- to the extent that coupled with my medication, the processing which goes on in my dreams is kinda overpowering. Beta blockers = vivid dreams; beta blockers plus reading scifi before bed = way-out, crazy, vivid dreams.

I would in this section every day or another or another, something would miss really badly. I specifically if your crock you can just sit in the sun simply perusing.