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| Thread ID: 108807 | 2010-04-12 09:09:00 | Telecom Big Time | nofam (9009) | PC World Chat |
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| 875643 | 2010-04-12 09:09:00 | Am considering going from Telecom's Adventure plan (20Gb, ADSL2+) to Big Time, as it's the same price, and full ul/dl also - just curious to hear from people on it, in particular those with ASDL2+ - I've read so many stories in the past about Youtube basically not being useable etc, but would like to hear the latest on how it goes for every-day web-browsing. I don't do any gaming, so I'm not too worried about latency etc. I live only about 1km from the exchange, and always get good speeds any time during the day, so hopefully this will help? TIA |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 875644 | 2010-04-12 09:29:00 | YouTube has always been fine here. I can get 1.4MB/s when downloading from rapidshare with IDM, although that is avoiding the throttling. I noticed that when just downloading files in firefox they downloaded ALOT slower than when using IDM so I would recommend using a download manager. General web browsing is fine; I've never had any problems. Torrents are obviously slower during the day but not outrageously slow or anything. The only thing I have noticed is that other sites with videos on them are sometime slow. e.g. when trying to watch videos on lockerz it is almost impossible because of the buffering, (yet it works fine at my friends place). That would be my only complaint about the plan, all in all it is very good for downloading ALOT and it’s good to not worry about limits. But I would definitely recommend using a download manager. |
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| 875645 | 2010-04-12 09:29:00 | www.stuff.co.nz | Greven (91) | ||
| 875646 | 2010-04-12 09:30:00 | Big time As I expect you may know is traffic shaped. User experiences seem to swing wildly from complete crap to pretty good. Youtube is all over the place as well. Depends what you want to use your internet connection for. I would generally avoid Bigtime for online gaming or if you require fast downloads for what ever reason. Big time has its place, prob this thread tells the full story. www.gpforums.co.nz To "me" it seems 1/3 of people find Big Time pretty good, 1/3 tolerate it for the "no cap" and 1/3 end up leaving it. I now know 2 people personally on it, 1 person finds it good the other tolerates it, so its effectively playing the broadband lottery lol |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 875647 | 2010-04-12 09:42:00 | Thanks Greven/Battleneter2 - I'll change over near the end of the month, so it it's bollocks I can change back quick-smart!! | nofam (9009) | ||
| 875648 | 2010-04-12 10:36:00 | www.geekzone.co.nz www.geekzone.co.nz Online gaming is basically impossible. Their throttling basically limits the connection to something ridiculous like 50bps |
Netsukeninja (13296) | ||
| 875649 | 2010-04-12 10:57:00 | ok note to self: Do not get big time | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 875650 | 2010-04-12 11:29:00 | These companies shouldn't be allowed to advertise as 'unlimited' as there is no such thing. Shaping the traffic and restricting usage is imposing a limit on 'unlimited'. Telecom deserve to get the flak from unhappy customers. They own the cable so can get more international capacity should they want to. | robbyp (2751) | ||
| 875651 | 2010-04-12 12:45:00 | Not quite. They advertise it as unlimited, yes, but they are quite clear about their traffic-shaping policy when you sign up. I'm very happy with it, even on ADSL1. Chugs along at about 4Mbit/s, and only notice slowdown during peak periods. Even then, it's not that bad. I download a lot of videos from youtube, and on a good day, I can get them at 600Kb/s. Streaming content is a bit iffy though. |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 875652 | 2010-04-12 20:18:00 | YouTube is fine, and online gaming is also okay, but then again I don't do much online gaming. Some HD videos on YouTube even run without having to buffer. |
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