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Originally Posted by Ian Robinson
That was illuminating Mr.B.
I'll definitely be talking to my ADSL IP about why my limit is 25GB (and I get shaped if I exceed that) while I can get 40GB (and get shaped if I exceed that elsewhere for the same price.
If they wont do a deal, I'll be ditching BigPond when my 2yr contract is ended and taking my business elsewhere.
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That's about all you can do Ian. I think you're going to find that as time goes on, fewer and fewer ISPs are going to offer download plans more than 10GB or so. There's a tremendous amount of pressure from governments and big business to limit downloads, because there is a direct provable link between those who need such large amounts, and those that pirate software, music and movides.
I can't really do it on our Redback yet (we need to update the firmware), but on our other core routers (Ciscos), we can watch flows, in real time. I can see what internal IP address on your network, connects to which external IP address, on both sides ports. And I can deduce quite nicely what someone is doing. I generally wouldn't give a rats about it, but sometimes, we have customers ring us complaining "our Internet is really slow, your product is crap". And when you look at the flows, they're hammering the connection d/l crap lol. They get really quiet when you tell them that (politely of course).
Whilst this is real time, there's nothing stopping the police from subpoenering an ISP to track someones flows and using that as evidence.
For now, I'd look elsewhere. Westnet has a record for excellent technical and customer service, as well as good value. The ISP I work for (ECN) has very good tech and cust. service, but is pricier.
Dave