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| Thread ID: 60469 | 2005-08-03 03:05:00 | Why's NZ the only country | Sisterofmercy (8649) | PC World Chat |
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| 377698 | 2005-08-03 03:05:00 | Why does broadband have stupid traffic limits and bandwidth allowances when most other countrys don't? You'd think if a company released a mediocre broadband plan, like 128kbps-256kbps with just no stupid limit with maybe $30-$40/month then they'd take the market, right?????????????????????? My wonders are, perhaps the small population? The country's undeveloped to that extent? Some sort of answer would calm my fury :angry grrr |
Sisterofmercy (8649) | ||
| 377699 | 2005-08-03 03:08:00 | Too many chiefs not enough indians, as the saying goes. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 377700 | 2005-08-03 03:13:00 | I suspect they want to limit the speeds transmitted, becuase they do not want to pay too much international internet traffic. They is probably limited international bandwidth available, so this is one way to mnimise it. Also, a lot people aren't clever enough to tune their TCP/IP window settings to make the best use of what we got. | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 377701 | 2005-08-03 03:18:00 | a lot people aren't clever enough to tune their TCP/IP window settings to make the best use of what we got. Sounds interesting. care to post some instructions? I'm all for getting the most I can out of my 256k connection |
Greven (91) | ||
| 377702 | 2005-08-03 04:03:00 | Check here www.mdgx.com | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 377703 | 2005-08-03 04:37:00 | NZ is a very remote country with a low population to share the bandwidth costs compared to many other countries and regions. The cables are both long and therefore expensive. Its not subsidised by Government, due to the "privatisation" policies adopted years ago. If it was Governemnet owned and subsidised, the cost would appear elsewhere in taxes. At least this way the user pays? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 377704 | 2005-08-03 05:13:00 | Yeah, I think its the cable issue out of the country. Theoretically I am on a 2meg download, on saturn cable, so i arn't complaining :) |
netchicken (4843) | ||
| 377705 | 2005-08-03 05:22:00 | Many other countries have speed and data caps, NZ is not alone in this. Personally I am all for a reasonable data cap (reasonable to me means getting your monies worth, no restricting it to 2GB because thats does your granny) As for modem tweaks, do a line speed test, if your getting the speed you paid for then what exactly does anyone imagine tweaking will do?,give you faster feed then what its being governed to?,somehow I dont think so.... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 377706 | 2005-08-03 05:24:00 | ou'd think if a company released a mediocre broadband plan, like 128kbps-256kbps with just no stupid limit with maybe $30-$40/month then they'd take the market, right?????????????????????? r you can get 256k unlimited for $50 a month,and Slingshot are even giving away a nice line of Billion Routers with the service. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 377707 | 2005-08-03 05:32:00 | Too many chiefs not enough indians, as the saying goes. Yep there one point. another one is that Telecom does NOT what people to start using voip, & That’s one reason why imo we have there crappie uploads speeds ( I am happy with the 2m download & the 10 GB bandwidth cap, I am just not happy with the upload speed, as I upload a lot of thing e.g. websites etc...) if we had better upload/download speeds then more people would use voip & that would mean less money for Telecom & That’s all what Telecom what to do is make Money! $$$$ & I think another reason why Telecom/the NZ Govt don’t what to unbundle our local lop is because Telecom would loss money & Telecom don’t what to do that. Plus I think the NZ Govt is in the 90’s instead of been in 2005 in the way they look at the internet in NZ |
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