TBH, this was on of the first things i noticed when i came down under, the internet service.
i was used to a 50mb connection in the UK (yeah, thats 50mbs) with unlimited download or shaping, all for a reasonable price. Coming here it seems that your price is on the high side compared to the rest of the world, and some cheeky ISP's (Telstra) even count your upstream traffic as data usage!) But thats only because of the geographical location of Oz ... its so far away from anywhere !!
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Originally Posted by 1ponders
How does anyone exceed 29gig in a month? I have 1 gig peak and 4 off peak and have never exceeded either. What do people download????
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Paul, i have 2 internet accounts, and i do about 350Gb a month. What do people download? well, i download alot of my old British TV in HD, mainly stuff like the Premiership, and Top Gear etc.
it does get used ....
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Something that you do seem to have here, is awful upload speeds, i have an 8mb cable line, its not bad, i can hit about 6.5Mbs on it, and thats pretty good, but what annoys me, is the upload speed, its 8000/480 which quite frankly is awful, it should be closer to 8000/2000, i quizzed my ISP about it, and they said "why would you need more than 48K upload speed?" and it annoyed me that they shouldnt be telling me what i do and dont need, i told them there are 4 people in my house, using it at the same time, moving files around, and 48K just doesnt cut it. After much debating, they informed me that it was cut right back to throttle on torrent speeds.