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| Thread ID: 109093 | 2010-04-24 01:32:00 | Telecom Big Time Plan Really SLOW | zqia014 (13726) | Press F1 |
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| 879512 | 2010-04-24 01:32:00 | Hi all, I'm on Telecom Big Time, from about a week ago I've suddenly had extremely slow download speeds, reduced by almost 10 times. I mainly download from Megashares, sometimes from Rapidshares. Normally I get around 200kb/s or more from Megashares, but for the past week I've hardly gone over 25kb/s. From a rough scan of the other threads (from other forums) it sounds like Telecom is having a problem, but it's still not fixed. Is this correct? Or can someone briefly explain what the problem is? and what's Telecom doing about it? Thanks a lot, sorry for repeat thread |
zqia014 (13726) | ||
| 879513 | 2010-04-24 01:34:00 | Thats probably why | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 879514 | 2010-04-24 01:44:00 | Same here, international traffic has gone all to hell. Can't get over 100KB/s in total I think they are playing around with some new traffic management scheme... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 879515 | 2010-04-24 07:25:00 | Hi zqia014, I've been working with Telecom to try and improve things, but they need people to actually contact them (And not be phased by 1st level helpdesk monkeys trying to get them to change to a per-GB paid plan), and tell them what's wrong. Ring Telecom on 0800 22 55 98, speak "Technical Support", and when you get through tell them you're experiencing similar symptoms to that described in Case # 20264137, slow international speeds on the Big Time plan. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 879516 | 2010-04-24 07:27:00 | Coming to a cabinet near you! Hopefully in my lifetime. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 879517 | 2010-04-24 08:02:00 | What do Cabinets have to do with it ? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 879518 | 2010-04-24 13:18:00 | Humm, Glad I am not with Telecom. I am still getting 700-800KB/sec on my Torrent downloads with some web pages hitting 1.2MB/sec. Not always that good of course but usually at or near that mark. | veldthui (15543) | ||
| 879519 | 2010-04-24 21:36:00 | veldthui, It's a bit of a trade-off. Even on the currently slow international speeds with Big Time, it's possible to push 10GB a day. Just down the road (A little closer to the exchange) my old boss has both a Telecom and an Orcon connection. The speeds between the two are identical to within about 10KB/sec, and we're talking about reaching 1.5MB/sec (12,000kbps+). Only thing is, he still pays per-GB, I don't. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 879520 | 2010-04-24 22:30:00 | You don't pay but you get slow speeds and I suspect you always will. People who want to download unlimited data have to realize that Telecom will slow their connection at any time they want to as they state (generally inside the hours of 9am and 2am) but if conditions require it they could slow the speeds at any time. If you are not prepared to put up with slow speeds at times I suggest you change your plan and keep your downloads to a more reasonable figure. People on this plan are on it for only one reason and Telecom as per the old unlimited plan are finding it harder to control the blatant over use that this sort of plan encourages. If you can still get 10GB a day even if slowed down what have you got to complain about. That is nearly 300GB per month. Any idea what that would cost if you had to pay for it. I say give Telecom a break and get off their backs as they are giving what they said the plan would deliver and be grateful for that. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 879521 | 2010-04-24 22:46:00 | Hi PM me if you want the workaround to HTTP throttling. I cannot make this public as Telecom will probably fix this exploit. Anyone else who is experiencing slow speeds feel free to PM me. No newbies or telecom workers allowed. lol @Chilling silence, i can get 2.27mb/s dling akamai on bigtime? :p |
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