Even in remotest Africa, Windows 10 nagware update burns satellite link cash

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/03/windows_10_upgrade_satellite_link/

by alister • 10 years ago

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hackney2• 10 years ago

Satellite internet has I think a 5 or 6gb/monthly limit. Nature of the beast. After that you lose connection. No idea what exactly the spec is for africa.

snowwindwaves2• 10 years ago

That may have been the plan you were on but there are all the kinds of plans available. A remote hydro electric plant I worked at got some kind of malware and burned through several thousand dollars of bandwidth and the ISP forgave the bill on the condition that they upgrade to a more expensive plan, probably from $700 a mo to $1000

hackney2• 10 years ago

I was more pointing to the average end-user who in no way will get anything but basic satellite, as I assume the article was, and not a resource capable entity. I would hope a power plant would not let windows anywhere near them.

cathartes2• 10 years ago

Living and working in rural locales will leave you with the feeling that many software developers assume you've got the same fast, unlimited connectivity that they have. For users like myself, with each forced batch of updates you can almost hear some well-connected urbanite scoff about pilfering "only" a few extra gigs from your connection, this week. "They won't even miss it!", they muse. And for the average user with metered connectivity, that's probably true--until the bill arrives. Or, like in parts of Africa or eastern Europe (where account usage is typically prepaid), when your data quota for the month maxes out (== connectivity loss) hours away from the nearest company service desk or kiosk within a week of topping off your account and barely doing more than checking email. Unlike me, however, very many people so afflicted by second or third world connectivity don't have the luxury of not using Windows . . .

xviia• 10 years ago

Obligatory article about YouTube: they reduced the size of the page from 1.2MB to a 98KB. All of a sudden, average page latency INCREASED because people in remote areas could now access YouTube (where previously browsing the site was too slow)

http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

Even in remotest Africa, Windows 10 nagware update burns satellite link cash

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