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Thread ID: 74640	2006-11-30 00:08:00	Pro --> Go Large: Before I Change Back	Erayd (23)	PC World Chat

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503112	2006-11-30 00:08:00	My billing month changes on the 9th, and I am planning to change back to Go Large after ditching it at the beginning of this month. The question is this: Is Go Large now safe to use (i.e. reasonable speeds, and reasonably reliable) or do I try & get another month on the pro plan? At the moment on the pro plan I can reliably get about 3.5-4 MBits/sec national and international, and never slower than about 3MBits/sec (even at peak times).	Erayd (23)
503113	2006-11-30 00:21:00	Stay in pro, mate. Go Large isn't worth it anymore. In fact, my torrents are stuck at 5kbps.	qazwsxokmijn (102)
503114	2006-11-30 00:29:00	Torrent speeds don't bother me - I hardly ever use any kind of P2P. The things I care about are: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SSH, SIP and RSYNC. Nothing else I use is bandwidth or latency sensitive, but SIP will ideally need under 100ms latency to make it worthwhile. The reason I ask is I currently pay $50/month for the pro plan, and if I stick with it I'll have to argue for the discount each & every month - and therefore will need a good reason to do so. If Go Large will do for the traffic types I need it for, then I'll be happy enough. Also what are you using to check torrent speeds? What do you get on this (torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de 08ed86d777e) torrent?	Erayd (23)
503115	2006-11-30 00:33:00	There is still fluctuation in bandwidth speed. One second your at 4mb, soon after your below 10k, I to at one stage was running in bytes. Plus I sometime get lost connections when viewing sites. Viewing multiple sites sometimes is just rediculous. I would suggest you stay on the pro plan if you ain't already getting the above problems, if not more.	lizalias (11532)
503116	2006-11-30 00:57:00	The things I care about are: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SSH, SIP and RSYNC. Stay on Pro, as I have yet to see any good speeds on FTP, the best I have got on FTP is about 100 - 200 KB/s. I would wait in till the kids go back to school before trying go large again, as I bet go large will get worse over the school holidays. Lizalias is right there is still fluctuation in bandwidth speed on go large, but it is a bit better then before, but its still not the way I/we expect to get.	stu161204 (123)
503117	2006-11-30 00:58:00	There is still fluctuation in bandwidth speed. One second your at 4mb, soon after your below 10k, I to at one stage was running in bytes. Plus I sometime get lost connections when viewing sites. Viewing multiple sites sometimes is just rediculous. I would suggest you stay on the pro plan if you ain't already getting the above problems, if not more. Agreed, I have just this very moment finished downloading a 163MB Google video, and download speed has been dropping down to 10 Kbytes per sec, at times it went up to 100KBps. It is interesting that international download speeds are very much better, or seem to be better, during the so-called peak evening times, when I can get 200KBytes per sec or more peak speed. During the morning and day, Go Large is quite poor, mainly because the speed is all over the place. My changeover to Orcon is scheduled around the 1st december, so let's see what we get then.	Terry Porritt (14)
503118	2006-11-30 02:16:00	Stay in pro, mate. Go Large isn't worth it anymore. In fact, my torrents are stuck at 5kbps. Thats because its not meant to be used for P2P. Just because it's Unlimited doesn't mean DOWNLOAD TIME! They mention they shape traffic during peak. But they also say during congestion so they can just brush that off and traffic shape all they want.	trinsic (6945)
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