On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Mehmet Ozdemir wrote:
> > 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
You see, that's the bit I disagree with.
The definition of "unlimited" is exactly that - no limits whatsoever.
Optus clearly advertised the service as "unlimited" to gain inital
customer support - then snuck in changes placing a limit on how much you
can download after they snagged a signifigant market share.
The most disturbing part is the fact that they disconnect with NO notice,
and no recourse. And also that you, the user, are solely responsible for
monitoring your useage, and ensuring you stay within the floating limit at
all times. Which is bloody ridiculous.
> 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).
That much depends entirely on how many people are connected to your local
cable segment. If you're the only one, then you'll get speeds like that.
if there's two, or three, or half a dozen, then your speeds will drop
accordingly when everyone is utilising the service.,
> Lately downloads from the USA a quite good as well ranging from 10
> Kbytes/Sec to 250 KBytes/Sec.
That's because of the cutover to the southern cross network for
international bandwidth - they're no longer relying on satellites or
bandwidth purchased from telstra.
> 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.
I dunno about helps - it certainly doesn't change my mind with respect to
O@H - I'll be going ADSL once I can afford it - which should be really
soon.
DaZZa
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