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Thread ID: 109713 2010-05-20 03:06:00 Telecom's Big Time Is A Big Flop. bob_doe_nz (92) PC World Chat
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886477 2010-05-20 03:06:00 www.geekzone.co.nz

www.nzherald.co.nz



Telecom has called time on its all-you-can-eat Big Time broadband plan as it struggles to manage traffic demand created by the plan.

Telecom director of home services Ralph Brayham said a small number of users consuming terabytes of data had stressed the system to the point that, for technical and commercial reasons, the servive could no longer be offered.

How the Frak does one use Terabytes of data? Hundreds of Gigabytes I could understand. :eek:
bob_doe_nz (92)
886478 2010-05-20 03:19:00 www.pressf1.co.nz CYaBro (73)
886479 2010-05-20 03:21:00 How the Frak does one use Terabytes of data? Hundreds of Gigabytes I could understand. :eek:

A "small number of users" all doing hundreds of Gigabytes soon adds up to Terabytes. Understand?
PaulD (232)
886480 2010-05-20 04:00:00 I personally have been doing at least 50gb since the beginning of the year, but I am not with telecom so you cant blame me :D nedkelly (9059)
886481 2010-05-20 05:27:00 Some people are so greedy. Probably teenagers downloading bluray movies. People will always abuse something that is advertised as unlimited. robbyp (2751)
886482 2010-05-20 05:29:00 Well it is unlimited :lol: Nomad (952)
886483 2010-05-20 05:30:00 It's amazing how quickly one can chew through multiple TB... :rolleyes:




month rx | tx | total
-------------------------+--------------+--------------------------------------
Dec '09 106.05 GB | 154.97 GB | 261.02 GB :
Jan '10 515.61 GB | 3.55 TB | 4.05 TB %%%:::::::::::::::::::
Feb '10 594.72 GB | 2.34 TB | 2.92 TB %%%::::::::::::
Mar '10 528.10 GB | 1.64 TB | 2.15 TB %%%::::::::
Apr '10 685.52 GB | 2.12 TB | 2.79 TB %%%%:::::::::::
May '10 146.37 GB | 701.40 GB | 847.77 GB %:::
-------------------------+--------------+--------------------------------------

Disclaimer: This isn't on my DSL

However this is:



Bill Date Traffic (Mb)
May 2010 101,567.0979
April 2010 133,300.7444
March 2010 207,689.913


Guess I'm one of the greedy ones huh?
Dannz (1668)
886484 2010-05-20 07:53:00 It's amazing how quickly one can chew through multiple TB... :rolleyes:




month rx | tx | total
-------------------------+--------------+--------------------------------------
Dec '09 106.05 GB | 154.97 GB | 261.02 GB :
Jan '10 515.61 GB | 3.55 TB | 4.05 TB %%%:::::::::::::::::::
Feb '10 594.72 GB | 2.34 TB | 2.92 TB %%%::::::::::::
Mar '10 528.10 GB | 1.64 TB | 2.15 TB %%%::::::::
Apr '10 685.52 GB | 2.12 TB | 2.79 TB %%%%:::::::::::
May '10 146.37 GB | 701.40 GB | 847.77 GB %:::
-------------------------+--------------+--------------------------------------

Disclaimer: This isn't on my DSL

However this is:



Bill Date Traffic (Mb)
May 2010 101,567.0979
April 2010 133,300.7444
March 2010 207,689.913


Guess I'm one of the greedy ones huh?

What you gonna do now? Go wardriving?
Nomad (952)
886485 2010-05-20 10:50:00 What you gonna do now? Go wardriving?

Never said my ISP was telecom :clap
Dannz (1668)
886486 2010-05-20 10:58:00 Some people are so greedy. Probably teenagers downloading bluray movies. People will always abuse something that is advertised as unlimited.

What's greedy about purchasing unlimited and then using it? Isn't that what they purchased. Should they have purchase unlimited and then stop at 5 gig?
porkster (6331)
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