I think that I am just in the happy situation that I joined up with the Ultra scheme I'm with during the free ISP days. Things were reeeally cheap then. I have not ever changed the scheme I'm on and Ihug have not tried to change me.
The worst I do with my plan is downloading my Redhat distro and I usually try to do that from an NZ site. I almost changed to Telstra/Saturn but am glad I didn't after comparing those download speeds :-) Chris Hellyar wrote: > > So this begs the question... What 'plan' are you on with Ihug? > > I looked at the ihug site and the only ultra options they have listed there > are 'Monthly 500' and extra data blocks which seem to work out at $50/Gb? > That can't be right, as you'd just have spend $100 downloading a distro?!? > > It doesn't mention any 'local data is free' type things like I'm sure it > used to... > > Cheers, Chris Hellyar. > > Selwyn District Council > Phones: X 831 (03)324 5831 (021) 350 603 > <This message has not been inspected by the Chief Censors office> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Zane Gilmore > > After a quick calculation I get approx 40hrs to download > the latest Redhat (approx 2Gigabytes) > 128k ~ 16 kilobytes/sec > 2000Mega at 16 kB/sec approx 34 hours. > > I use the terrestrial version of Ihug Ultra and managed to suck > down RH7.3 in a little over 3 1/2 hrs from phys.canterbury > > I think that works out at approx 1.26 Mbits/sec. > > ###################################################################### > The contents of this e-mail message may be privileged and/or > confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the > message and notify the sender. > > Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author, and do > not necessarily represent the official position of the Selwyn District > Council > ###################################################################### -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch New Zealand phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895 Fax 3642222
