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norwegian
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Outback
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reply to Warez_Zealot
Re: Interesting

said by Warez_Zealot See Profile :

said by ugg :

I live in australia for a couple years. They'll probably give that kind of speed to the home. Then give you a ridiculous bandwidth cap with very high cost when you go over that limit.
Yeah, pretty much. I'm in Sydney right now, and they are fucking insane on the caps, prices and overage fees.
»my.bigpond.com/internetplans/bro···ault.jsp

$30 for 200MB
$40 for 400MB
$60 for 12GB

It's basically a big joke. Needless to say I now use surf the channel exclusively to download all my shows and I only download at itet cafes.
Which is why you shouldn't use Bigpond full stop, they count uploads and downloads as one. Not that I'm nick picking. As for an updated network, we are still awaiting digital TV and ADSL2+ where I'm at, and I can't see any change in the near future. 8 billion or not, most of it hits the big cities, and draft meetings at the local 5 star.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke


mpelle4456
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join:2001-07-21
Tacoma, WA
·Advanced Stream

reply to patcat88
said by patcat88 See Profile :

$150/GB???!??!!!!

Why don't they have the bandwidth? It seems like Australia's only link off the continent is a T3 line. I recommend they add capacity the "green" way »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
IPoAC - I love it. This is indeed the wave of the future.

patcat88

join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY

reply to TheMG
$150/GB???!??!!!!

Why don't they have the bandwidth? It seems like Australia's only link off the continent is a T3 line. I recommend they add capacity the "green" way »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

TheMG

join:2007-09-04
Edmonton, AB
·TELUS

reply to Warez_Zealot
said by BigPond :

1. Usage means monthly combined upload and download data transfer 1 Gigabyte = 1000 Megabytes. Additional usage charged at $0.15/MB.
I had to read this a few times before I could believe it.

That's right people, $150/GB over-usage fee.

OUCH!

quatrix
Premium
join:2005-02-11
Davie, FL
reply to Warez_Zealot
Making people pay more money for more usage and less money for less usage? Crazy.

Joe12345678

join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL
reply to Warez_Zealot
They have unmetered sites.

and this may let them have more of them.

Warez_Zealot
Rural land of the rising sun

join:2006-04-19
japan

reply to ugg
said by ugg :

I live in australia for a couple years. They'll probably give that kind of speed to the home. Then give you a ridiculous bandwidth cap with very high cost when you go over that limit.
Yeah, pretty much. I'm in Sydney right now, and they are fucking insane on the caps, prices and overage fees.
»my.bigpond.com/internetplans/bro···ault.jsp

$30 for 200MB
$40 for 400MB
$60 for 12GB

It's basically a big joke. Needless to say I now use surf the channel exclusively to download all my shows and I only download at itet cafes.
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