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| Thread ID: 66148 | 2006-02-13 01:54:00 | What is your realistic BB plan? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 429847 | 2006-02-13 04:05:00 | My current plan is quite adequate, but an nice, realistic plan would be: 1 mbit up/512kbit down, 5gig cap, $30, throttle to 64k after cap exceeded. No Caps Throttle the hardcore leechers to 1 MBit after 40 GB The purpose of throttling, to stop people from leeching bandwidth, is only effective if there is a discernable disincentive to continue downloading. I don't know anyone who would say "sheesh, download at 1Mbit/sec - forget that!" 64kbit, or as close to dial-up as makes no difference, makes downloading anything of any size a real chore. Thus, so long as leechers who hog the bandwidth cause a problem for the rest of us, throttling is valid. If at some point this is no longer a problem (i.e. nearly infinite bandwidth, or an economic model that facilitates this goal), then throttling can go out the door. :2cents: |
Lizard (2409) | ||
| 429848 | 2006-02-13 04:22:00 | Okay, the static IPs .. maybe not. But the rest makes us (i.e New Zealand) a sad place to be :(It is sad, but "the internet" is overseas, and the only realistic way to get it here is via the Southern Cross cable. This is unfortunately a very finite resource and rather expensive to get transit across. There also aren't that many carriers to buy transit off (www.ispmap.co.nz) so the costs are prety uniform as well. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 429849 | 2006-02-13 04:33:00 | Static IP (by default) What do you need a static IP for anyway? We don't have one at work but I can still log in remotely using No-IP :thumbs: |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 429850 | 2006-02-13 04:55:00 | Telecom came very very close today to my perfect plan: My perfect plan is: 2M or (3.5M) downstream & 512Kbs upstream with a 10 GB Cap throttle to 64k after cap exceeded for $49.95 or $59.95. :) I think this is farley realistic (as Telecom came farley close today) |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 429851 | 2006-02-13 08:28:00 | $45, 20GB cap, 2MBit D/L, 1MBit U/L. Static IP on request (no extra charge). Throttle after going over cap. No port shaping. People have been making some good points about the expense of the Southern Cross link, but there are a few points that no-one's mentioned yet. While we are currently using about 1/2 the capacity of the system, a (relatively) inexpensive upgrade to the hardware on the end of the cables will increase the bandwidth by an order of magnitude. AFAIK, the current hardware limits the system to 480MBits/sec/fibre, whereas newer hardware will kick that up into many GB/sec/fibre. As a comparison, the two fibre cables across the cook strait that TC owns are capable of about 3TB/sec/cable. That's a total of 6TB/Sec ppl! These cables have 12 fibres per cable. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 429852 | 2006-02-13 08:39:00 | I think the word relaistic was in there somewhere. Anyway, I second Metlas suggestion'. I would be happy with that. The realistic bit is at the bottom of my post Tukapa |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 429853 | 2006-02-13 08:50:00 | Telstraclear has a real rip snorter of a plan 10mbps for 10gb a month okay its around $90 but its way better than telecoms snail pace i dont have it but im thinking about it. | technophobia (8565) | ||
| 429854 | 2006-02-13 09:15:00 | The realistic bit is at the bottom of my post Tukapa True - I missed that bit while marvelling at the sense of tranquility I would have with a plan such as you recommended. Two blankets I think!!! |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 429855 | 2006-02-13 10:24:00 | $10 - 2Mb 10Gb then 1Mb $20 - 4Mb 20Gb then 1Mb $30 - 8Mb 40Gb then 1Mb $40 - 16Mb 80Gb then 1Mb $50 - 16Mb no caps |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 429856 | 2006-02-13 10:42:00 | $10 - 2Mb 10Gb then 1Mb $20 - 4Mb 20Gb then 1Mb $30 - 8Mb 40Gb then 1Mb $40 - 16Mb 80Gb then 1Mb $50 - 16Mb no caps:lol::lol::lol::lol: Did I mention :lol: |
ninja (1671) | ||
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