Going to data capped broadband

Years ago i still remember on being on 56k modem and the pains of that, slow speeds, that annoying noise, using a long cable to connect to phone line and keeping track of how long i was on it to keep the costs down. But then in about 2006 we got broadband and it was a joyous experience, while it was not the fastest  it was leaps and bounds ahead of 56k and finally i could use steam and play half life 2.

Now cut to last year where i was living we had super fast broadband and the online connection had became part of the way of life streaming vids/playing games/facebook etc it just became you did not notice it any more as it became part of daily life.

This year it all changed we had to move and the only thing we could get are those mobile 4g devices with data caps ...if you sign up to contracts you could get a 60gb monthly allowance but i had to go for 30gb monthly and you can pay extra for more if you need to such as 15 euro for a 15gb booster.

I am sure for a non heavy internet user 30gb may be enough but i had to be really careful as i could use a massive chunk of that without realizing and that is due to auto updates.

So we have two desktop computers and a laptop ,xbox one/ps4/wii u/vita and since there was a big gap between moving and getting the broadband as soon as they connected they would update Steam for the pc was the biggest with 20+ games wanting to update and of course origin as well as windows update to. I had to go through everything on all the systems to set auto updates to off.

Streaming video and watching youtube took more of my download allowance then i would have expected so had to limit what i could watch and set the quality to low to save some of that allowance.

My issue is with all this is i feel there should be greater allowances or even unlimited, comparing all the providers they seem to stick with same sort of pricing and allowances and if you go over the allowance the cost is really obscene and the better deals require very long contracts.

But i think the real sting is the 4G. It is really really fast far faster then the landline broadband we had last year but the problem is you cannot download that much. In the end i really hope things improve in the future as the technology is amazing.

Random thoughts

I see signs saying "Caution children" and i am really not sure why we need to caution them

Why is it adverts you see 74% out of 164 people agree or 65% of 363 people agree....drives my OCD crazy why cannot it be numbers like 100 or 200 or even 350.

4g ...great internet speeds but useless data caps i mean come on i could easily use 10 gig in a day if i was not careful, would be like given a Porsche to drive but only being able to got a mile once per month.

When see speed limit of say 80km/h and then say before a corner on the road is written slow.....and then slower ...it is pretty vague.

Moving house is a pain in the arse though i think moving a house would be harder.

Steam refunds, will that improve the quality of games ?

Steam refunds was recently introduced which means as long as you have not played the game for more then 2 hours and within 14 days you can get a refund no questions asked.

I was really happy for them to do that in my mind it meant companies can not get away with broken buggy games at launch or worse companies just asset flipping unity projects for a quick buck. Now the consumer has power.

And i think the big test came with Arkham Knight which had a numerous issues and it lead to Warner brothers actually suspending sales and promising to fix the game. Now they would have NEVER done that before but now with the refunds i think that was the driving force though i have no figures on how many people requested refunds for the game.

In the end though it will take time to see if it works i suspect the rubbish will still get released on steam and i really think they do need to do more in the way of quality control but the refunds is a step in the fight direction.