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| Thread ID: 20665 | 2002-06-09 23:23:00 | xtra's draconian dsl policy | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 53528 | 2002-06-09 23:23:00 | i am so disgusted with the current move from xtra regarding its capping of 'jetstart' to 5gig per month international traffic that i have decided to actually put pen to paper (or that now known as keyboard to monitor?). i am sure there are many others out there who agree that the modern age of the internat has been pushing the 'full on multimedia experience' for some time now and this move by xtra puts new zealand back into the 90's technology wise. Given that xtra are a law unto themselves in this land i see little real option for ordinary users like myself. althou i did conside getting a .nz based shell account and running a proxy script to make all my traffic appear to originate from a .nz ip. however there seems to be a distinct lack of .nz based options for shell access. enough raving i say! do we all just sit back and allow this to happen? or do we find a way to fight back @ the corporate monster! any suggestions on how to battle this dubiously justified move from xtra would bring joy to my day and great shouts of glee from the masses i am sure (heh). |
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| 53529 | 2002-06-09 23:52:00 | Buy your own 2 international 64Kb/s channels at ~$300 each? Perhaps you can see Xtra's reasoning.... 1 full time leacher=$600 per month. |
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| 53530 | 2002-06-10 02:20:00 | On a good month I might make just over 2GB of traffic, international and national. I take offence to leechers slowing down the network and am all in favour of the 5GB cap on Jetstart. |
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| 53531 | 2002-06-10 10:23:00 | just to clarify my stance due to some responses ... i am not a 'leecher' sucking bandwidth downloading warez or pr0n or any such rubbish. i am simply taking delight in the world of streaming mulitmedia which xtra themselves pushed as a valid reason for going 'broadband'. there are a huge number of fantastic internet radio stations out there for example. video chat with friends overseas - the list goes on. these are i believe not selfish bandwidth hogging reasons to use large amounts of traffic and i restate i find xtra's 'changing of the rules' AFTER pushing these very advantages to get customers to sign up for jetstart not only immoral but indeed misleading. hope this clarifies the situation. :) | Guest (0) | ||
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