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| Thread ID: 56910 | 2005-04-18 06:13:00 | Speed throttle & data caps | sdagore (890) | PC World Chat |
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| 346279 | 2005-04-18 06:13:00 | Most broadband isps talk about speed throttle to max of 64kbs after data cap is reached. What about min speeds after data cap is reached. I get 53kbs on dialup now, and could live with 64 kbs, but don't want to get trapped on something much slower if I run out of mb's. (Am looking at Telecom at this stage) |
sdagore (890) | ||
| 346280 | 2005-04-18 07:28:00 | It should also be 64kbps. | techie (7177) | ||
| 346281 | 2005-04-18 07:53:00 | Not sure quite _what_ you mean there techie?? sdagore, welcome to PressF1, Basically you can sign up with somebody like Ihug who offer 20gb at 256kbps. If you can do anything near that on Dial-Up, you're a legend! Otherwise, after 10gb, you _may_ be limited back to 64kbps if you're on certain 2mbps plans. Its highly worth it if you can afford the $30 odd over and above a flat-rate dial-up plan :) Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 346282 | 2005-04-18 08:05:00 | 10GB on broadband is a joke...although it's an advance on the 1GB and 600mb plans telecom used to have. when will they start giving some value for money? |
manicminer (4219) | ||
| 346283 | 2005-04-18 08:11:00 | the max ive ever done is about 2.5gb, thats on dial up. | Prescott (11) | ||
| 346284 | 2005-04-18 21:37:00 | I get 53kbs on dialup now, and could live with 64 kbs, but don't want to get trapped on something much slower if I run out of mb's. (Am looking at Telecom at this stage) Before I went to UBS I was once down graded to 64Kb. It's not a constant 64Kb more like 10~60Kb not constant. Dialup would have been better |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 346285 | 2005-04-18 21:40:00 | I've yet to recieve mt 2mbit so I can test it... stuck on 350kb/s until telecom provisions us :annoyed: | Edward (31) | ||
| 346286 | 2005-04-18 23:21:00 | I think the original poster meant: Is I go over the cap and my speed gets capped at 64kbps (maximum [as ISP have advertise]) then what the the minimum speed I should expect. If it's still better than 56kbps, then I think I should cope still. Ok, my reply is that when you do get capped, 64kbps will be the maximum you get, however, it should also be the minimum you get. Depending on other circumstances you might go down to 60kbps for example. However, should not be less than dial up speed. |
techie (7177) | ||
| 346287 | 2005-04-19 00:25:00 | firstly your dailup dosn't run a 53kbs. it may say it does but in real life it never runs quite that good. as far as speed cap plans are concerned i think the important thing here is...can you afford to pay excess traffic charges?? most poele are horrified at the bill they can get for excess traffic so a speed cap idea is very good. as far as how god the 64k speed is.....it depends a lot on isp's, site your accessing etc. what ever speed you get its usually better than a very big bill you would otherwise get. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 346288 | 2005-04-19 00:36:00 | I like the speed cap idea. This avoids the bill shock, which is far worse. Incidently I download at 400Kbytes/second (i.e. 4.8Mbit/s) on the 10GB plan. As Chilling says it is well worth the extra $30 or so above what the old standard unlimited dialup used to be. | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
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