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| Thread ID: 136937 | 2014-05-03 23:30:00 | Telecom's 'Unlimited' Data Plan | bk T (215) | Press F1 |
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| 1374058 | 2014-05-05 01:28:00 | Probably the same as the unlimited plans before, Bittorrent and other P2P mostly, I can't remember, though my connection was only 2MBit ADSL back then so it was probably too slow to notice anyway. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1374059 | 2014-05-05 02:33:00 | Also I'll check out voda and orcon as well, as the telecom offering is a little dearer than others. For UFB + home line, Telecom and Vodafone are both $109 for 30Mbps and $139 for 100Mbps, and both offer $10 discount for having an eligible mobile on the same account. Orcon are $99/$129 respectively. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1374060 | 2014-05-05 04:36:00 | Yeah I've got a friend on Orcons flat-rate They say "Yeeeah we've got customers who use like 1TB a month on our connection and we don't shape them at all". Silly buggers, that may sound "super" to their prospective customers, but in reality, you're screwing over all the other customers coz you'll be hitting your international circuit limits and just letting the protocol (TCP or UDP) handle it, so for gaming, usually UDP, that just means "drop the packet"... Drop the packet?! Yeah that's great for gaming... or voice... :-/ |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1374061 | 2014-05-05 09:51:00 | yes I hope they hurry up with those second and third undersea cables. | Digby (677) | ||
| 1374062 | 2014-05-05 10:20:00 | Current international pricing isn't _that_ bad though when you're buying 10 gigabits at a time. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1374063 | 2014-05-05 10:51:00 | It's the traffic management that always killed it for me, messed up my gaming which I never understood . Some opinion seems to be that gaming is a big bandwidth hog but it's really not, watching a medium quality youtube video uses far more than most games for example . Sure it can add up to a bit over a month if you game constantly but it's not that bad really . This one seems to exclude gaming from the traffic management but once bitten and all that . If I knew my normal activities such as Gaming, Streaming, Youtube, and general surfing would not be adversely affected I'd be all for it, but I don't trust that to be the case after previous experience with Go Large I just went and looked at my usage logs, seems the TiVo has caused my usage to be un-metered (which I knew about) for over a year now(which I was surprised at) so I have no Idea what my average usage is and already am uncapped effectively :) I thought that would end with Caspa but it hasn't . Fair enough you don't want to use them but if you've not used them in so long you can't really be sure there's "always" a catch . Unless by catch you mean there are cheaper ISPs available . All deals from all companies have terms and conditions, if you don't read them I'm not sure that makes them a "catch" Anyway, not advocating Telecom just saying I've always had good service from them apart from my Go Large experience and would only really complain on price if anything about my current plan . When fibre arrives in my street in 2016 I may take a serious look at who to go with then . being a tivo user I hope you are on the smallest plan |
plod (107) | ||
| 1374064 | 2014-05-05 19:35:00 | For UFB + home line, Telecom and Vodafone are both $109 for 30Mbps and $139 for 100Mbps, and both offer $10 discount for having an eligible mobile on the same account. Orcon are $99/$129 respectively. We have Snap UFB and it costs $75 a month way cheaper than the others for 100 Gb and free national calling |
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