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Originally Posted by avandonk
I was 'shaped' yesterday on my Bigpond 25GB plan. Had a look and there was a 50GB plan for ten dollars less and 30Mbits/sec instead of 9Mbits/sec. Back up to better speed after midnight.
So have a look at your current plan and see if there is a better cheaper one available from your current ISP as prices seem to be dropping.
Bert
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I had a similar plan on offer about 8 weeks ago when my download speed unexplained went from 1.5Mb to 6.0Mb on my adsl1 modem and I checked . I now can get ADSL 2 at $10 less so I bought a new modem for ADSL 2 and changed over. However the speed increase was marginal. I now get about 8.0 Mb rather than the full ADSL 2 speed which I think is closer to 20 Mb/s.
At the same time I invested in a Bigpond next G wireless sytem to use at Wiruna and I get up to 8.0 Mb there depending on traffic.
Actually I use the internet quite extensively and share my connection with two neighbours. I have never exceeded 6GB in one month. What do these people do that require 120GB a month. Do they stream video and audio? I also maintain a web site within these limits but here I can make large uploads (GB's) direct to the server by DVD.
Incidently My son used to have Optus cable but its speed was capped at 1 Mb/s. He now has Bigpond ADSL at 19Mb/s. I note that Optus are madly advertising a 4 times speed increase. They must have removed the speed cap.
Barry