Yeah, I know Finland is quite info-tech literate (like not teaching primary school pupils how to use a pencil, and instead just teach them to type! —— and let's all hope that the next Coronal Mass Ejection doesn't fry the electricity grid and leave the next generation after Z without a means to write out their thoughts … :).

It's 10GB per calendar month, which equates to a queue for downloading my backlog that will take the rest of the year, and then some.

Last month my cap was blown by updating Windows 10 (and the drivers managed by the proprietary application supplied with the computer, which actually failed on a small item in the queue, after downloading the 700MB update for nVidia, then re-downloaded it, much to my chagrin). It was over 8GB by the time I disconnected. (The laptop is not connected, usually, and only when I have a good reason. I *hate* always connected devices.)

For example, Dragon Age: Origins is 22½GB, which is more than two months' capacity.* I also have other purchases awaiting download, like XCom: Enemy Unknown 21½GB, BioShock 4GB & Remastered 15GB, Fear Effect: Sedna 5GB, Shadow Warrior 2 17½GB, and a few others, like The Witcher, which is 9GB. I was even going to download the updated KotOR files, too, but they seem to run fine (and there was a comment earlier about cloud saves corrupting local saves for computers that are not connected to the interwebs, so I am now less inclined to auto-update every game installation file).

Believe me, I'm not happy about the fine print. Australia in in the midst of a huge government infrastructure project to improve the existing ADSL technology: the new (National Broadband Network) backbone. This project has the legal authority to compel people to upgrade their service (not really an upgrade, since it's fibre-to-the-node, not fibre-to-the-home, and the short link from the "node" —— i.e., the street terminus —— to the home router is the old telecom copper connection, so my baud has changed from 1.3MB/s to … 1.3MB/s) within the next year. Because of the enforced switch, I opted to take the earlier opportunity when my ISP connected this suburb (thinking I had a better choice now than later, when compulsion might erode the options), but made the mistake of not reading every bit of documentation, wherein the cap was reduced.

I'm still debating whether I will take some sort of legal action. (I've had a few extra challenges to my time management these past few weeks, so I haven't made a decision as yet.) Upgrading is a nice idea, but the key phrase here is "fixed income", meaning that my recent splurge on new hardware has left little for discretionary increases in variable costs for the foreseeable future. :/

I have toyed with the idea of a public space, but it is really inconvenient (my local library has crap network latency; for instance they have removed all the magazines and replaced them with digital versions, and it takes a few seconds just to turn a page, sitting in the library at a hard-wired terminal!) and also I am on-call, all the time, so I can't really disappear for a couple of hours to download stuff.

But thanks for the suggestion, I appreciate the thought. :)

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*The real annoyance with this is that I already have this game on disc. I bought it here on Gog so that I might install it without recourse to the optical drive (which my new laptop doesn't have), though @Teceem has already advised me, previously, that Win-10 allows me to mount the DVD as an ISO image, so I will experiment with that. I also have Neverwinter Nights 2 —— I bought three or more copies of when it was released, but only one has survived the travails of the last decade.Oh, and Total War: Napoleon, but that requires a Steam activation and the last time I tried to install it my (previous) laptop was hi-jacked, so I am reluctant to even bother.

edit: added Windows update anecdote and corrected split infinitive