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| Thread ID: 108807 | 2010-04-12 09:09:00 | Telecom Big Time | nofam (9009) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 875663 | 2010-04-12 23:48:00 | um kinda. With my current plan if I am on the internet and she tries to do it then it is really slow, so when she is working I cant use internet. | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 875664 | 2010-04-13 00:15:00 | Why would you put the Go LARGE plan as a $60 when you have a non-shaped $80 40GB plan :confused: To me this is just attracting the wrong users. It's like saying going to a restaurant and you pay for a buffet less than a large single meal. I would of priced the GO LARGE plan as $100. Wait, you want to pay MORE? Um, I thought everyone was all for cheaper internet all round? |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 875665 | 2010-04-13 00:19:00 | Wait, you want to pay MORE? Um, I thought everyone was all for cheaper internet all round? Of course who wouldn't want everything for less :clap But when you have a $80 pro plan for 40GB, a all you can use plan to me seems misplaced. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 875666 | 2010-04-13 00:21:00 | Of course who wouldn't want everything for less :clap But when you have a $80 pro plan for 40GB, a all you can use plan to me seems misplaced. They charge less because of the traffic shaping. |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 875667 | 2010-04-13 00:23:00 | They charge less because of the traffic shaping. Yes but on the same token you get potentially more data. I would of thought it should of been at least the same $80. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 875668 | 2010-04-13 00:39:00 | Yes but on the same token you get potentially more data . I would of thought it should of been at least the same $80 . But dont NZ companies charge through the nose for data compared to overseas anyway??? |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 875669 | 2010-04-13 00:50:00 | Yes but in terms of consistency if you are going to leave Go Large at $60 then I think Pro Plan 40GB should get too ... | Nomad (952) | ||
| 875670 | 2010-04-13 00:55:00 | I got around 300GB for Feb, haven't checked March usage so dunno . . . Anyway, as long as you're using their new DNS servers you should be OK, otherwise the likes of YouTube is unbearably slow . Torrenting is a pretty much no-go, and as mentioned use a download manager . For me I like DownThemAll for Firefox . So the new Telecom DNS is preferable to OpenDNS? Incidentally, is that the case for all Telecom plans, or just Big Time? And I don't really use torrents, but I understood that they were pretty much full-speed between 2am - 9am? Or are they permanently shaped? |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 875671 | 2010-04-13 01:10:00 | So the new Telecom DNS is preferable to OpenDNS? Incidentally, is that the case for all Telecom plans, or just Big Time? And I don't really use torrents, but I understood that they were pretty much full-speed between 2am - 9am? Or are they permanently shaped? Telecom locally caches content, if you use open dns you miss out on this (it's particularly useful with youtube) Torrents are full speed between 2am and 9am. I can watch utorrent downloading at around 150 - 200kb/sec at 1:55 and at 2:05 it's doing 700kb/sec. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 875672 | 2010-04-13 01:55:00 | So how are/were your speeds on Pro DH? i.e. is it still a little slower than you'd like? And are you on ADSL2? Back on the BigTime I would max out at about 15-25kb/s during the day if I was lucky. After midnight speeds did pick up to araound 250kb/s. Gaming was utterly impossible mind you - latencies at 'stable' times where around 1,000ms to US servers and during bad times around 5,000ms. Mini-disconnections all the time, the ADSL signal wouldn't actually drop, but for about 5-10seconds nothing would work every 15-30 minutes. In conclusing on the BigTime plan from my own experience: Gaming: Impossible, the odd hour that it is reliable is never consistent. General surfing: Slow/Very Slow. Frequent time-out errors. Youtube/Online Video: Near impossible. Expect to wait for a very long time for a simple 1min Youtube video. Downloading: During peak times very slow, off-peak times it was average at best. Pro Plan: Consistently high speeds and very very reliable. Gaming: Pings in game to US servers always around the 300ms mark which is fairly standard for NZ (unless using WoW-tunnels which does some trickery-pockery with the ACK response and nearly halves this) General surfing: Speedy as ever, never any issues with random time-outs. Youtube/Online Video: Buffers much faster in 720p (Youtube) than you can watch. Can stream multiple videos at the same time. Downloading: Very fast at any given time. Using Hotfile/Rapidshare I average 800+kb/s. Maybe the BigTime is ok for some, but there is nothing worse than coming home from a days work and wanting to lax out and play some games online/surf the web, and have it so slow you can do neither but ring up and curse Telescum. |
Bozo (8540) | ||
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