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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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| 429837 | 2006-02-13 01:54:00 | What is your ideal BB plan? Pls be realistic that you are in NZ and that Telecom controls the market. Pls also state are you a low, mid or high level user. Here is mine I am a medium low level user, that is downloading patches for windows, demo games, surf the net but I don't play games, maybe the odd 2x month audio conference. I want a $30 plan, 2Mbit speed with 5GB traffic (national or international). I can live with 128k upload after looking at the circumstances. IMO is that if Telecom is unable to deliver affordable BB packages to general households or to households who are low end users they will never get NZ's bulk subscribers away from dialup connections. $30 to myself is like a avg expenditure like a cellphone or 4x movies a month, myself I don't want to need to spend a month supply of petrol or electricity or half of that amount to fund internet. For now I don't require an extra phoneline for dialup, I will re-evaluate a yr from now unless Telecom provides something bigger at a sudden. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 429838 | 2006-02-13 01:57:00 | $50, 25GB cap, 1mb upload,2 mb download. For an entry level business or home service, 5Gb cap, 1mb download, 512k upload,$35 |
Metla (12) | ||
| 429839 | 2006-02-13 02:04:00 | 10Mb down AND up, no caps, $50 . . . and a blanket for when hell freezes over |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 429840 | 2006-02-13 02:30:00 | 10Mb down AND up, no caps, $50 I think the word relaistic was in there somewhere. Anyway, I second Metlas suggestion'. I would be happy with that. |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 429841 | 2006-02-13 02:32:00 | People with realistic BB's risk getting shot by police. | ninja (1671) | ||
| 429842 | 2006-02-13 02:50:00 | Full Speed Download... 512 K upload Static IP (by default) No Caps Throttle the hardcore leechers to 1 MBit after 40 GB No silly: 1) Distinctions between national or international 2) Off-peak verus on-peak 3) You have to join our tolls 4) Outrageous traffic shaping $50 ... and turn off interleaving on the ADSL connection (if desired). |
gibler (49) | ||
| 429843 | 2006-02-13 03:08:00 | 1 mbit D/L 256, U/L min prefer 512 10gb a month no cap just reduce speed if over limit. I play Virtual Skipper 4 online every evening but can't host as our U/L speed is to slow. VSK4 use's Peer to peer technology where when you are playing you are almost constantly D/L or U/L boat skins and it makes the sim very laggy, when I try and host. In VSK3 it was alright as it didn't use peer to peer. For you to see other players skins or for them to see yours you had to email them to each other. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 429844 | 2006-02-13 03:08:00 | Full Speed Download... 512 K upload Static IP (by default) No Caps Throttle the hardcore leechers to 1 MBit after 40 GB No silly: 1) Distinctions between national or international Not practical: IP's are expensive, and a finite resource - it's not practical to provide everyone with a static address and most people don't want one or even know what one is. Full speed == what? Thats too open. No caps - not really practical. Caps actually make for a lot easier planning and thus the ability to provide a consistent service. There is value in distinguishing between traffic. International bandwidth is bloody expensive, national is not. If you can get benefit out of making better use of local circuits then it makes sense to do so. I work in the industry. I'd love all I can eat internets as well (I actually have it but thats another story) but from the cost and infrastructure side it's just not practicable. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 429845 | 2006-02-13 03:43:00 | Not practical: IP's are expensive, and a finite resource - it's not practical to provide everyone with a static address and most people don't want one or even know what one is. Full speed == what? Thats too open. No caps - not really practical. Caps actually make for a lot easier planning and thus the ability to provide a consistent service. There is value in distinguishing between traffic. International bandwidth is bloody expensive, national is not. If you can get benefit out of making better use of local circuits then it makes sense to do so. I work in the industry. I'd love all I can eat internets as well (I actually have it but thats another story) but from the cost and infrastructure side it's just not practicable. Okay, the static IPs .. maybe not. But the rest makes us (i.e New Zealand) a sad place to be :( |
gibler (49) | ||
| 429846 | 2006-02-13 04:00:00 | My perfect plan: 8Mbit downstream, 1Mbit upstream with a 25GB cap (50GB would be better but we'll probably see that in 2031) for $49.99 per month. :) | maccrazy (6741) | ||
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