Post Your Connection Speed Part Two

[Nermal]

At the moment my "biggest" month of all time was 78 GB, so 75 included is heaps

Another option with the same ISP is to pay 80c/GB and have no included data. I believe that the contention's a bit better on that plan so I'll need to decide what to do. There might be a large influx of new customers on the 75 GB plan as Telecom is shutting down its unlimited plan (some people were doing over 1 TB/month!) and the leeches will need to go somewhere!

 

[DoFoT9]

At the moment my "biggest" month of all time was 78 GB, so 75 included is heaps

Another option with the same ISP is to pay 80c/GB and have no included data. I believe that the contention's a bit better on that plan so I'll need to decide what to do. There might be a large influx of new customers on the 75 GB plan as Telecom is shutting down its unlimited plan (some people were doing over 1 TB/month!) and the leeches will need to go somewhere!

wow 78GB. yea that will be plenty! you have the choice to pay at least, wish i did

1TB a month.. wow... thats rediculous, why cant we have that! id pay cant control myself

 

[Nermal]

1TB a month.. wow... thats rediculous, why cant we have that!

That's a very good question! Southern Cross Cable charges the same rates to AU and NZ (US$300k/month per 5 Gb/s) so it's not an international bandwidth issue. Of course, Australia is physically bigger so it'd cost more to run the cables... hmm... not really sure what other underlying reasons there are.

 

[SBik2]

 

[DoFoT9]

That's a very good question! Southern Cross Cable charges the same rates to AU and NZ (US$300k/month per 5 Gb/s) so it's not an international bandwidth issue. Of course, Australia is physically bigger so it'd cost more to run the cables... hmm... not really sure what other underlying reasons there are.

and IIRC - that cable runs at ~4tb/s ? thats a LOT.

but do they actually count usage? you quote a price for the bandwidth, i still guess they would charge for actual usage as well what a rip.

what would be feasible, is charging us more for accessing international data then "inside" (the country) data. there wouldnt be many fees to go to google.com.au, or youtube.com (as its hosted in australia). if we wanted to go to macrumors, then sure! idk - just an idea (that wont happen).

 

[Nermal]

SCC doesn't charge for usage.

The ISP I used to be with before they were bought out would charge national traffic at 1/10th rate, eg. if you downloaded 50 MB nationally, it would only count as 5 MB on your bill. The main issue with that was when customers would visit a .nz site that was actually hosted offshore and then complain that they'd been overcharged. Conversely, people would also avoid going to .com sites that were actually hosted in NZ (Apple, Microsoft, Google etc have local mirrors here).

 

[DoFoT9]

SCC doesn't charge for usage.

thats surprising then. why do we need data caps then. sure having no data caps would increase overall bandwidth (at a constant rate) - but grrr. annoying.

The ISP I used to be with before they were bought out would charge national traffic at 1/10th rate, eg. if you downloaded 50 MB nationally, it would only count as 5 MB on your bill. The main issue with that was when customers would visit a .nz site that was actually hosted offshore and then complain that they'd been overcharged. Conversely, people would also avoid going to .com sites that were actually hosted in NZ (Apple, Microsoft, Google etc have local mirrors here).

and to that i say tough bloody luck!! if its hosted externally you get charged. i have no problem with that arrangement, too bad it would never happen

 

[Nermal]

and to that i say tough bloody luck!! if its hosted externally you get charged. i have no problem with that arrangement, too bad it would never happen

There are two big ISPs here, Telecom (owns AAPT) and TelstraClear (guess who owns them!). They have no interconnect. So if a TelstraClear customer tries to access content hosted by Telecom, it goes via an overseas route. Most sane people would see that this is ridiculous, but for telcos it's all about the money. But in this case, even NZ-hosted content would be charged at international rates.

 

[ItsAdot]

 

[DoFoT9]

There are two big ISPs here, Telecom (owns AAPT) and TelstraClear (guess who owns them!). They have no interconnect. So if a TelstraClear customer tries to access content hosted by Telecom, it goes via an overseas route. Most sane people would see that this is ridiculous, but for telcos it's all about the money. But in this case, even NZ-hosted content would be charged at international rates.

ok now that is ridiculous! that just makes NO sense at all. gah.. no... thats stupid, im sorry.

but you're right, they are a company - can't expect anything more. and they are a Telstra company - so i expect even less

 

[cludgie]

 

[andalusia]

 

[301finest]

 

[xi mezmerize ix]

who the hell cares what other people's connection speeds are...

 

[Transporteur]

who the hell cares what other people's connection speeds are...

who the hell cares what you think about this thread...

 

[Arminator]

Im still loving it

 

[DoFoT9]

Im still loving it

wow. an upload faster then the download! nice haha. lucky u. do u have caps at all?

 

[techluvr]

My internet sucks, apparently.

 

[spillproof]

Now that I'm back home from college for the summer I have to deal with this compared to 24D/8U.

 

[darkplanets]

Verizon Internet, fiber optic ****. Fiber to house, then reg line to router.
As more detail; no caps on data as far as I'm aware; I average about 150 GB myself a month while at home.

My connection at school is about 3x better though
There we have like 60u/50d, with a 5GB/day limit on Internet traffic, with unlimited on-network data, which is pretty sweet considering you get 90d/~70u inter-campus. Also we have our own campus wide DC++/Dtella network with ~140-180TB of data based on users, so its pretty sweet

 

[alex.purple.mac]

 

[lewis82]

Now that I'm back home from college for the summer I have to deal with this compared to 24D/8U.

You're lucky to have such great internet at College.

I'm not there yet, but the uni I'm planning to go offers wi-fi for 10$ a year. It sucks, because there are too much people on it and half of the internet is blocked.

You can also pay for 3mbps internet. See table here. The prices are really ridiculous.

 

[stridemat]

I have just moved back home from where I had cable internet. Now I have this



This is as fast as it gets because I literally live in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Arminator]

wow. an upload faster then the download! nice haha. lucky u. do u have caps at all?

speed cap? none except the cable^^ so in an ideal situation i might got 100MB/s....but just in theorie

in traffic we are capped in 1gb a day in upload, then the speed slows down dynamicly until we reach 1,5gb

 

[darkplanets]

You're lucky to have such great internet at College.

I'm not there yet, but the uni I'm planning to go offers wi-fi for 10$ a year. It sucks, because there are too much people on it and half of the internet is blocked.

You can also pay for 3mbps internet. See table here. The prices are really ridiculous.

That's horrible. Wow. I can't believe you have to pay for that.

We get 5 GB out of network traffic per day, with like 60d/50u... free.