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| Thread ID: 78654 | 2007-04-23 23:02:00 | iHug Broadband Plan 3 (Fair Use) | supersi (8401) | Press F1 |
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| 543627 | 2007-04-23 23:02:00 | Recently I recieved a letter from iHug telling me I should change my plan. Currently I pay $89.00 a month for fullspeed downloads, 512 uploading, 10gb on peak, 20GB offpeak. It doesn't look like you can actually get this plan anymore. I've planned to stay on it as long as I can because the other plans look like crap. I download a lot. Most months I will break my 30GB overall cap. So I was wondering what plan 3 is like and what fair use really results in? For instance on my current plan, I can schedule downloads only at offpeak times - 2am to 8am and save my 10GB on peak data cap but with fair use is it 500mb over 3 days all the time? I would appreciate feedback from people who've adopted this plan. |
supersi (8401) | ||
| 543628 | 2007-04-23 23:38:00 | Broadband3 is simply the best plan there is ;) I love it to bits, honestly No more of this peak / off peak crap. I downloaded about 1.2GB worth of torrents & 1.5GB worth of FTP traffic on sunday. The days before Id used about 50MB each day This means my running average is approx 3GB for those previous 3 days, so on Monday I was throttled down slightly, 2mbps I believe. Today, again, not much usage... but surfing / the occasional small download even at 512kbps is fine. Back to full-speed again on Wednesday :) Seriously, its awesome, its one of the best ideas for a broadband plan Ive ever heard of! About 3-4 months back a sibbling of mine found the wild world of P2p and left an app sharing a ton of data... we blew our 20GB traffic limit after about 4-5 days and spent the month at slightly faster than dial-up speeds :( Now, if that were to happen, it'd be 3 days at the most before we're back on at full-speed again! It really helps you to 'average out' the data, not kill your ISP one day then sit doing next-to-nothing for the next 3 weeks... Seriously though, go for it, I dont know anybody who's used it who's not been happy, its the best for sure! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 543629 | 2007-04-24 02:06:00 | to summarise, you can download a certain amount of data then you are subject to a stand down period from full speed. Once that stand down period (how long is it? 3days/) is over you come back up to full speed? Would this be a fair summary? |
supersi (8401) | ||
| 543630 | 2007-04-24 07:55:00 | The 3 means something! Third world plan! Its a plot by ihug to dumb us down to such a slow speed that we are thankfull that 56k modem backup is still available. I like the darkside, shame Teressa is going she was such a sexy minx! |
zcc (50) | ||
| 543631 | 2007-04-24 10:32:00 | Anybody else want to chip-in with their experience of this plan? | supersi (8401) | ||
| 543632 | 2007-04-24 14:17:00 | Supersi, yes, thats correct. I was surfing all day at 512kbps today.. had a torrent running at approx 55KB/s most of the time, although I get the feeling one of the sibblings was also transferring files. zcc, you're a Broadband3-plan customer? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 543633 | 2007-04-25 00:01:00 | since woosh is killing my current plan I've got my eyes on ihug3.. one question though..what happen if you suddenly use heaps eg. 3.4gb in a day for a ubuntu dvd image then you use close to nothing for the next two days do your speed get decreased to 64 kbps on the day after download then slowly rise back up? is this what's happening to you Chilling_Silence? and to use their tolls..is it a pain to switch over to them from telecom? |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 543634 | 2007-04-25 06:03:00 | Supersi, yes, thats correct. I was surfing all day at 512kbps today.. had a torrent running at approx 55KB/s most of the time, although I get the feeling one of the sibblings was also transferring files. zcc, you're a Broadband3-plan customer? Nope, I am a customer of telescum, Go Large.. just phoned them to find out my usage.. 21gig, 3 gig, 4 gig and 6 gig for last 4 months. So I will hang onto this plan as i am getting about 4100kbps today... Youtube watcvhing is not as heavy as I thought. :D |
zcc (50) | ||
| 543635 | 2007-04-25 12:26:00 | and to use their tolls..is it a pain to switch over to them from telecom not at all - just give ihug the "nod" to add that service and it's done... I switched over my tolls when I went to iHug a couple years ago and also took my land line over last November as soon as that was an option! :D Telecom no longer get one cent of my money LOL It amazes me how many people still pay them for things they could get elsewhere for better value - just the other day I was talking to a friend who had just got a new comp and was now on broadband.... with xtra well - obviously I had to ask! "how much" "fourty bucks" he says "that's good, same as mine" I replied Then he went on to tell me what a pain it was when he was cut back to dialup speed for half the month after he used up his bandwidth!! Yea - a whopping 1 Gig for $40 iHugs plan seems comparatively generous with 5 Gigs for that same $40 Their implementation of a "fair use" policy which averages the data use over the last 3 days seems a truly fair and reasonable way to allow for an almost uncapped connection which youd need to download more than 6 gigs over 3 days before you'd get slowed right down to 64k, and then you'd be back to full speed in a couple days anyway - and all for 50 bucks I've had very good service from them over the last couple years - I hope it remains the same with vodafone - so far it seems to |
bevy121 (117) | ||
| 543636 | 2007-04-25 12:30:00 | Im on Ihug 3 also and i agree with Chilling and Bevy. Best way is to spread out your downloads. I did 35gig last month and slowest i got rate limited to was 512kb/s. Im a fan definately. Cheers! |
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