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| Thread ID: 109125 | 2010-04-25 06:19:00 | Bypass Telecom Big Time throttle! | Ollie (794) | Press F1 |
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| 879856 | 2010-04-27 02:13:00 | FTTH FTW | Sweep (90) | ||
| 879857 | 2010-04-27 03:13:00 | Im crying because you guys are idiots and shouldnt be posting information like this :D Cats out of the bag now so you may as well enjoy it while it lasts, also 858GB and counting this month. I'm crying because of idiots like you who have to be greedy and spoil it for everyone else! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 879858 | 2010-04-27 06:05:00 | Im crying because you guys are idiots and shouldnt be posting information like this :D Cats out of the bag now so you may as well enjoy it while it lasts, also 858GB and counting this month. Do you have a real life? I think its just time before it's bye-bye to Go Large. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 879859 | 2010-04-29 14:17:00 | I think its just time before it's bye-bye to Go Large. Funny, Go-Large is gone. They replaced it with BigTime a traffic managed plan which is "unthrottled" during off peak hours, with an average adsl2+ connection over 700GB can be done within those times during a month. As for the legitimacy of downloads whose to say the "honest" bigtime users have never pirated, there are large majority of new zealanders who openly admit to pirating copyrighted material. Its also not very hard to do 1TB in downloads, long stints on youtube watching normal stuff can drain a couple of gigs a day, let alone all the HD stuff there. Consumers want more data and the ability to upload it, I dont see why in NZ that they continue to limit us back when clearly ISPs in places like the US, Japan, Sweden have unlimited cap plans that are cheaper than what is offered here when our country has the physical capacity to deliver it. Dont complain that people "like me" are ruining your plan, you get what you pay for. If you dont like it move plan or switch isp, I however dont have any problems with it. @CYaBro: They did at one time have a fairusage policy (not sure if they still do as I cannot find it on telecom.co.nz) but they did throttle your connection if you went over a certain download limit and keep you there by putting you into a different ip pool with a different set of traffic management rules to everyone else. afaik they cant do that for a plan they state as "Unlimited". |
FlashZ (15743) | ||
| 879860 | 2010-04-29 21:07:00 | @CYaBro: They did at one time have a fairusage policy (not sure if they still do as I cannot find it on telecom.co.nz) but they did throttle your connection if you went over a certain download limit and keep you there by putting you into a different ip pool with a different set of traffic management rules to everyone else. afaik they cant do that for a plan they state as "Unlimited". They can do whatever the hell they like, it's a "managed" plan, and they're pretty much free to manage it in any way they see fit. The only thing preventing them from doing-so is that customers *will* walk if they're too heavy-handed. Anyway, international speeds have picked up again for me as of around Tuesday I think, without using this method, so it's all good :D Have been building linux distro's and downloading a few hundred megs of packages at a time for a LiveCD, last thing I want is 10KB/sec downloads internationally, it blows ... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 879861 | 2010-04-29 21:47:00 | Funny, Go-Large is gone. They replaced it with BigTime a traffic managed plan which is "unthrottled" during off peak hours, with an average adsl2+ connection over 700GB can be done within those times during a month. As for the legitimacy of downloads whose to say the "honest" bigtime users have never pirated, there are large majority of new zealanders who openly admit to pirating copyrighted material. Its also not very hard to do 1TB in downloads, long stints on youtube watching normal stuff can drain a couple of gigs a day, let alone all the HD stuff there. Consumers want more data and the ability to upload it, I dont see why in NZ that they continue to limit us back when clearly ISPs in places like the US, Japan, Sweden have unlimited cap plans that are cheaper than what is offered here when our country has the physical capacity to deliver it. Dont complain that people "like me" are ruining your plan, you get what you pay for. If you dont like it move plan or switch isp, I however dont have any problems with it. @CYaBro: They did at one time have a fairusage policy (not sure if they still do as I cannot find it on telecom.co.nz) but they did throttle your connection if you went over a certain download limit and keep you there by putting you into a different ip pool with a different set of traffic management rules to everyone else. afaik they cant do that for a plan they state as "Unlimited". 30 x 2Gb at day is only 60Gb of youtube!, So far away form 1TB its not funny. Even if HD...It is fairly obvious to all you are downloading movies legal or otherwise...in fact you must be constantly downloading to reach the data amount...I hope you get caught with copyrighted material! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 879862 | 2010-04-29 22:55:00 | I have noticed the speeds increasing too, from about 4kb/s to about 40kb/s, even without this workaround. | utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 879863 | 2010-04-29 23:35:00 | @Chilling_Silence: They cant do whatever the hell they want just because one person uses more than another you cant just limit the one who used more as it would be against the consumer guarantees act. They have to manage the plan as a whole. I dont think that many customers would walk, they are the only ones offering an unlimited plan in NZ so its safe say that people who eat more than most ISP's plans would stick with bigtime as it would be cheaper than to pay for data caps or get limited to a cavemen like 64kb/s. @SolMiester: I was giving a generalised example of how something you use everyday can eat away at data without you knowing it. The data i've used this month is the most ive ever used, downloading the 100+ gb of live performances from Nine inch Nails and backing up my server in the UK to home which was another ~300GB. Backing up my server without the method described in this thread would of been impossible otherwise, I would gladly use ftp instead of http to do it but as telecom limit ftp down so much even in off peak there's just no way, especially at 12kB/s. Also if i was downloading constantly I would of reached far in access of 4TB, I dont think I could find enough content that I wanted to get that far ;) |
FlashZ (15743) | ||
| 879864 | 2010-04-30 00:48:00 | @Chilling_Silence: They cant do whatever the hell they want just because one person uses more than another you cant just limit the one who used more as it would be against the consumer guarantees act. They have to manage the plan as a whole.Erm... I'm pretty sure that's not correct. Can you please quote the relevant bit of the consumer guarantees act that you claim supports that position? I dont think that many customers would walk, they are the only ones offering an unlimited plan in NZ so its safe say that people who eat more than most ISP's plans would stick with bigtime as it would be cheaper than to pay for data caps or get limited to a cavemen like 64kb/s.Tell that to the GO Large customers - a huge number either walked, or were getting some form of ongoing compensation from Telecom. ...I would gladly use ftp instead of http to do it...You are kidding, right? Why on earth would you back up a server via HTTP? Use rsync or something, you'll do far better with that. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 879865 | 2010-04-30 01:31:00 | Erm... I'm pretty sure that's not correct. Can you please quote the relevant bit of the consumer guarantees act that you claim supports that position? I'm with Erayd, they say "This is a managed plan", which means they're basically free to "manage" it in any way they like, and you can't do squat about it except for walking away ... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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