Probab;ly could act as a responsible user, if only they could roll it out
to the next lot of exchanges in my bloody area..
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Crossfire wrote:
> DaZZa was once rumoured to have said:
> > On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Alister Waller wrote:
> >
> > > 3GB is loads for a home account.
> > >
> > > What would you want more for???
> >
> > Lessee.
> >
> > 1 Debian ISO - 650 meg
>
> It costs less to buy these off of Anthony than to download them on any
> permemant connection plan offered by any ISPs I know of.
>
> > 1 kernel source tree download - 20 meg
>
> Tiny. You do it once. Then you use patches therein.
>
> > 1 software .ZIP, downloaded 3 times because the shitty server it's on
> > corrupting it in transit - 120 meg.
>
> Stupid.
>
> > 1 set of upgrades for SuSE 7 - 65 meg
>
> Accepted traffic. and you only download this sort of bulk a few times
> a month. Its not like you're downloading the same 65meg of updates
> every day.
>
>
> Basically, I don't give a damn about everybody whining about this.
> You've had it good, you've abused the service, and now you're
> complaining since Telstra is finally doing something to assert some
> reasonable quality of service for the rest of us.
>
>
> All in all its still a damned good deal.
>
> You pay less than the ADSL business customers, and they only get
> 500Mbs before they start paying.
>
> You pay less for that 3GB of traffic than any BP:D customers.
> (at the old 19c/meg for BP:D, thats $583 worth of traffic)
>
> you have good bandwidth for burst activity (which is what I use my
> ADSL for), and you get a `permenant' connection.
>
> 3GB is enough for daily web surfing, non-stop IRC, email, a bit of
> games here and there when the leechers aren't burning up the
> bandwidth, downloading debian updates, etc.
>
>
> Now stop whining and finally accept that you're still recieving a good
> service for the money, and that Telstra are being perfectly
> reasonable.
>
> They're trying to protect their own business *and* the quality of the
> service for other customers (which has been declining steadily as the
> number of customers has been increasing due to the increase in
> acitivity which is making this sort of change necessary). If you
> can't accept that you are expected to act responsibly with such a
> service, then you shouldn't be using it.
>
> C.
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