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| Author: | Polityk [ Thu Sep 02, 2004 1:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | My ISP has a great new idea |
Yes. They are going to increase speeds, so what is now 640/160 ADSL will become 1024/256, but the download will be limited to... 5 GB! Don't you think there's a slight disproportion between the speed and the monthly limit? According to their statistics, the majority of users never goes beyond this threshold, the minority that does being "only" 35%, so "it won't affect normal browsing". Heck, I don't need my connection for browsing (well, not only)! If I wanted it for browsing, 128/64 would suffice. But 1024 with 5 GB, lol, this limit can be reached within a day. Tjis only proves those guys really don't know what they're doing. Hopefully it's only for the new users, otherwise I'm totally fucked. Where I live there is no other provider (that's Poland, folks...). My contract ends around January, so I'll have a chance to find out soon... CRAP! |
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| Author: | PC_Arcade [ Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:04 am ] |
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5gb a month??!! NTL had a simillar brilliant idea, 1.5gb connection limited to 1Gb a day (when I download ~12-16Gb) which means you hit their limit in ~1Hour a day 
Needless to say they've never (to my knowledge) enforced it as they're a bit of a lughting stock over here. |
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| Author: | satan [ Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:59 am ] |
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Read my threads. I am raped. 5mbit/768k. And I have a transfer cap, but they haven't cut me off yet. |
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| Author: | lildarien [ Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:11 am ] |
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Welcome to the standard in Australia! The top two providers (serving probably 80%) decided that 3GB was the perfect amount for everyone except the top 5% of users. Now its not so bad because more competition has made the average limit go up to about 10GB. Still pretty low though |
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| Author: | satan [ Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:20 am ] |
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I just switched to 2mb/2mb UNLIMITED for $59. Was at home user 5mbit.768 for $40. Home business if you like to say, but we have All Cox services to ask for, so I'm getting a deal.=) Won't see the affect for a week, but damn cool, I can run a server.=) |
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| Author: | TaKYoN [ Thu Sep 02, 2004 1:03 pm ] |
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I wish I could get that upload. 256 up is shit when ya have 3meg down. But hey, my ISP knows what I need apparently and that is not more upload. |
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| Author: | satan [ Thu Sep 02, 2004 1:18 pm ] |
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I would of paid $80 for 64k/64k with vorizon. |
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| Author: | d0c [ Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:44 pm ] |
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just give a crap and break that fucking 5mbit limit.... what can they do to you anyway... |
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