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| Thread ID: 66074 | 2006-02-09 23:07:00 | broadband data caps..... | lance4k (4644) | Press F1 |
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| 428956 | 2006-02-09 23:07:00 | why does new zealand have broadband data caps? USA and the UK and most countries in europe dont have data caps, they have unlimited broadband. Telecom say its cuz their servers can't handle everyone maxing out their connections, but surely telecom could upgrade their servers couldn't they? I mean if in the USA and the UK where they have at least 10Mbps broadband(UK has 24Mbps now), surely telecom should upgrade their servers. | lance4k (4644) | ||
| 428957 | 2006-02-09 23:13:00 | well they aint got the money after paying teresa gattung her 2.9million per year that cant afford any better servers......funny thin.......if you ring up the helpline it takes many many minutes to get human being on line however if you ring to purchase a new service you get very fast responses.......hmmmmm..... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 428958 | 2006-02-09 23:26:00 | Bandwidth data caps are a Good Thing (en.wikipedia.org) because they help limit the broadband leeches from excessively slowing down the connections that the rest of us use. If NZ's telecommunications infrastructure could handle more bandwidth better, then yeah, we should increase the caps. But as is, it's a best case scenario. Giving us higher upload/download speeds for what we pay, though, is a different story. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 428959 | 2006-02-09 23:33:00 | Well one slight problem is that NZ bandwidth to the rest of the world (in particular USA) is limited. It costs a lot of money to put in cables such as the Southern Cross network. Where as in Europe/US they are much, much closer to the action. Telecon are the other problem... |
gibler (49) | ||
| 428960 | 2006-02-09 23:47:00 | We nned to differentiate between data caps, data rates and bandwidth, how much, speed and how many. AFAIK, we haven't reached the limit of the Southern Cross cable yet, not even close. Someone might like to correct/expand on that. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 428961 | 2006-02-10 00:39:00 | AFAIK, we haven't reached the limit of the Southern Cross cable yet, not even close. Someone might like to correct/expand on that. That's what I thought too. We don't have a cap on our ihug connection at work. It's only 256k though :( |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 428962 | 2006-02-10 00:44:00 | Bandwidth data caps are a Good Thing (en.wikipedia.org) because they help limit the broadband leeches from excessively slowing down the connections that the rest of us use. I agree with Greg here, Bandwidth data caps are a good thing why I say that take a look at all the ISPS out there that have offered unlimited/unmated broadband, they have not keep that offer going for long as all the heavy down loaders/ leeches went to that ISP & slow down everyone else… (Once thing I would like back in free NZ traffic (back when JetStart was around), then I can download/backup a 2+GB website account with out doing damage to our bandwidth cap) Giving us higher upload/download speeds for what we pay, though, is a different story. Imo, they should fix the upload speed before they fix the download speed. |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 428963 | 2006-02-10 00:47:00 | AFAIK, we haven't reached the limit of the Southern Cross cable yet, not even close. Someone might like to correct/expand on that. That’s another good point you have there Murray P :) Does any one know if ALL of NZ internet goes over the Southern Cross cable?? Or does it go out via satlight etc...? |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 428964 | 2006-02-10 02:35:00 | AFAIK, we haven't reached the limit of the Southern Cross cable yet, not even close. Someone might like to correct/expand on that.You're mostly right. We're close to the potential max of 50% of the current available limit. But then that limit is also capable of double it's current, so yeah, there's a lot more to be had. But also, it's not infinite. | Greg (193) | ||
| 428965 | 2006-02-10 02:44:00 | And IT'S NOT FREE. Every bit which travels on the cable is paid for. Your ISP buys a certain amount of bandwidth. It doesn't buy enough for all its customers to be using their full "entitlement" all the time. Your monthly bill would be a lot bigger if they did. The ISPs let the small users subsidize the greedies. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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