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| Thread ID: 101103 | 2009-07-01 21:50:00 | New Telecom unlimited traffic plan | wratterus (105) | Press F1 |
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| 787971 | 2009-07-01 21:50:00 | www.stuff.co.nz Interesting - It would be really good to know just how much they would throttle speeds. I'm still on the original Go Large plan at home, and things slow to a crawl in the evenings - international speeds would be down to 15 - 25kb/sec, where the other morning at around 2am, i was downloading from Aussie at over 500kb/sec. Very annoying - but it's great. :p Between the 7 of us who use the connection, we go through around 60 - 100GB a month. Can't see it being any good for customers on a normal plan. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 787972 | 2009-07-01 22:38:00 | How is it different from Go Large? I'm on go large and its $10 less than this. | utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 787973 | 2009-07-01 22:51:00 | How is it different from Go Large? I'm on go large and its $10 less than this. There is no "Go Large" plan at this time. You are probably on the "Adventure" plan which is capped at 20 Gb data usage. The new plan is uncapped as to data which would be the difference I presume. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 787974 | 2009-07-01 23:11:00 | New and existing customers on other plans can't sign onto go large, but people who were on it since 2007 are still on it. In which case if the only difference between this new plan and capped plans are unlimited data and managed traffic, there is no difference between it and Go Large. Except its more expensive. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 787975 | 2009-07-01 23:12:00 | Nope, Go Large is still running - old customers are still on it. I'd say this plan is identical - apart from being more expensive and you know its going to be slow before signing up for it. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 787976 | 2009-07-01 23:18:00 | It better not affect the speeds I pay for through my 40gb Adventure Pro plan. I spent 3 months on the phone getting credits the last time the introduced a stupid uncapped plan |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 787977 | 2009-07-01 23:29:00 | I doubt you'll be affected. They'll just slow everyone on the new plan down. Even on Go Large, I can't even stream youtube videos fast enough to watch while loading :p But in previous months the usage has been has ranged between 60-90gb and you can't beat that for $49.95 |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 787978 | 2009-07-01 23:39:00 | Yeah I'll be pissed if my ADSL2+ goes back to its old speeds!! :p |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 787979 | 2009-07-01 23:41:00 | Yeah I'll be pissed if my ADSL2+ goes back to its old speeds!! :p If it drops noticeably when they launch the new plan, you should give them a call and give the supervisor the biggest verbal raping ever, surely they've learned their lesson from last time. :( |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 787980 | 2009-07-02 00:02:00 | What a joke .. Sounds like they're gearing themselves up to be able to throttle your connection back to some pathetic speed and just simply leave it that way. I moved out of home a couple of months ago in preperation for my wedding, signed up with Orcon Naked DSL and all my downloads constantly saturate my line. I'm pretty far from the exchange so I get about 5m/bit. My parents saw that, switched to Orcon from Xnet (Who wholesaled off Telecom on the plan we were on) and saw speeds jump from an average of 90-120KB/sec to 1.5 MegaBYTES a second and upwards. Why would you want to sacrifice speeds like that for "unlimited" usage ... Bet they wouldnt reach anywhere near those speeds anymore, but then again Im feeling rather pessimistic about anything Telecom says these days in relation to broadband. |
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