Overgrowth

Ah, it would seem my Torrenting days are soon coming to an end.

Now I pay for internet around here. But someone saw fit to have the DSL changed. There are three types of DSL: Lite, Regular, and something else. I don't know. Super Street Fighter 2 DSL?

So while I continue to pay $55/mo for internet, only about $30 is going to DSL and the other $25 is GETTING POCKETED!

You have no idea how angry I am. I'm not sure when the switch happened because I havn't torrented in a long time. But now I download at 786Kb/s (as opposed to 1.5Mb/s as before), and upload at 128Kb/s (as opposed to 256Kb/s).

All this coming while my brother becomes a myspace and chat addict. Yeah, he got a REALLY cute girlfriend (er, nothing steady, but they're staging) out of it (who rocks my socks: video games and internet "culture" and tight jeans and a friggin' brain. I very much approve), but we're both competing for now diminished resources.

Halfing download isn't that big a deal. Downloading at like 90 KB/s from web sites is fine for surfing, and I don't really notice it downloading because a lot of times servers are slower than that because they have load control and transfer throttling, you know, the things servers need to have. BUT uploading at 15 KB/s is a hassle. I just downloaded typical BitTorrent payload: 1.4 GB. It was done sometime overnight or through that first day. I'm still uploading, trying to fix my ratio. Uploaded: 960 MB for three days. It's no longer really efficient for me to download without fucking up my ratio.

Ah, I just wanted to complain.

But my own family has been stealing from me. There's anger and just abject sadness. It's just really really sad that these are the ways they think of me. I'm gonna wind up disowned.

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