>
> I did too, once upon a time, but I'd rather have a guraanteed 512k
> than 2
> meg which could be shared between up to 20 other people - and true
> unlimited downloads, rather than Optus' "10 times the average use"
> crap.
>
Just a quick point on this, I believe that telstra also has a traffic light
system on their "unlimited" broadband services. I personally download on
average 5-6 iso's a month, napster, plus other heavy downloads, I'm yet to
get above a 6 on netstats, so the system isn't to bad. I would prefer no
netstats, but it was to be expected as some people take unlimited quite
literally leeching warez iso's 24/7
While the service is "shared" I'm yet to get under 300 Kilobytes/Sec when
downloading from aarnet (I'm on the carlingford node) on occasions I have
cracked 600 Kbytes/Sec sustained download from aarnet, this would seems
quite good for "shared" service and only once did I crack 700 Kbytes/Sec
(simultaneous iso downloads).
Lately downloads from the USA a quite good as well ranging from 10
Kbytes/Sec to 250 KBytes/Sec.
I only thing I don't like about Optus is reliablilty, ie os pipes go down
about once a month (atleast in my experiance), though this is said to fixed
with sx.
Hope this helps.
Mehmet Ozdemir
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