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| Thread ID: 100294 | 2009-06-02 23:01:00 | Unlimited BB? | sarel (2490) | PC World Chat |
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| 779208 | 2009-06-03 00:28:00 | Just looking at Telecom's plans, their 40GB fs up/down does not appear to allow you to slow it down to dial up speed when you go over the cap, which is not a lot of good cause they sting you big time for excess data usage ($20 a gb! :eek:) so it would need to be one of their business plans if you were to go with telecom. They are acceptable. Would cost less than the Telstra Clear one. www.telecombusinesshub.co.nz |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 779209 | 2009-06-03 00:45:00 | What? You got that piece of cr*p to work OK? Sh*te you're goooood. A firmware update, many resets and a lot of cursing seems to have got it co-operating. ;) I did find out that whenever you power it on, if any cables are plugged into it apart from the power cable it doesn't seem to start right, unplug everything, power it on, leave it 10 mins, then plug stuff in and it was ok. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 779210 | 2009-06-03 00:48:00 | If you're in the CBD, you might be able to get fibre/fiber. You have to pay through the nose, but some businesses have it. CPIT, for example, has a Gigabit connection (and techlabs, the hardcore tech dept, has another gigabit connection). I have no idea how much it costs, but they must chew through at least 10-15Gb a day. If I'm on, maybe 20! But judging by your situation, the TC unlimited referred to earlier would suit your needs and then some. If it's capacaty is underused, you can always just leave your computer there overnight... boosting the utilization. |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 779211 | 2009-06-03 02:38:00 | Hey Geekster, I work for a Hospital, so there's no $$$$. The only upside is that the Hostel brings in new $$$ to the Hospital, so we've got a little more leeway trying to do things. Thanks for all your help, guys:thanks sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 779212 | 2009-06-03 08:39:00 | The other thing that can effect your usage is like the other month when there seemed to be over 40 auto updates from MS times that by the 25 or so lappies and there could be your months cap | gary67 (56) | ||
| 779213 | 2009-06-03 09:04:00 | Well, obviously you would have to ban any MS operating (?) systems from your connection ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 779214 | 2009-06-03 09:07:00 | Well, obviously you would have to ban any MS operating (?) systems from your connection ;) You bad boy....:D |
Blam (54) | ||
| 779215 | 2009-06-03 09:53:00 | Perhaps something like this: www.wi-fiplanet.com / worldspot.net Or this: www.howtoforge.com |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 779216 | 2009-06-03 23:12:00 | Well, slowing the connection to dial-up speed will render it completely useless for all but 2 or 3 very patient users. And if someone is doing torrents, then dialup speed will not protect your cap. I've moved 40GB at dialup speed this month (after exceeding my cap, so 80GB of traffic in total, and still a week to go on the month). Ideally, you need to portion out the amount of data available to each user, and shut them down once their fair share is gone, or have a pre-pay system whereby they pay for all data before they get it... ie they log into your system, it monitors their traffic and their credit. There's got to be a way that hotels and other hostels use. The biggest question is the cost of implementing it. However, if most of your users are only temporary guests, they might not get much chance to drain the data... and if it's hospital related, they may be more likely to be researching medical conditions than downloading videos. Is it hospital staff or family of patients being housed here? |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 779217 | 2009-06-03 23:14:00 | Actually, another way to reduce abuse, is limit access to the web to a handfull of computers in a very public area - like the TV lounge. | Paul.Cov (425) | ||
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