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Whats the best broadband deals around?

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Mrbig Senior member

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That plan was never unlimited, it has a bunch of bull shit restrictions. That's why it's not available any more.

well then how come I have unlimited broadband and you dont

Bet you aint downloading Movies at up to 800kb/sec on that all you can eat plan.

bet you cant download all you can eat without it costing you a years pay Id rather have my unlimited slightly slower plan and theas no way you have that speed our internet connections in NZ arent capable of that speed

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General download speeds are around 400kb/sec once it gets up and running, up to 800kb/sec on the odd occasion. Don't tell me it isn't possible just cos you've never seen it.

You get what you pay for man. I value being able to download 25-30 new movies a month, 20 new CD's and browse youtube with no lag. $100 a month is well worth it IMO.

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haha I feel sorry for you guys I got on the go large plan by telecom when it first came out max speed unlimited downloading all for 50bux a month

That plan was never unlimited, it has a bunch of bull shit restrictions. That's why it's not available any more.

well then how come I have unlimited broadband and you dont

I did have it, got ride of it because it's shit, an it's not what it claims it is. So much so, that it made headlines an was on the news.

Try streaming high definition video on that plan.

Here's an article about the plan.

The recently introduced “Go Large” is marketed as having no monthly data cap, but doubts have risen as to how correct this is.

An industry source says that far from being unlimited, Telecom has in fact a 20GB per month cap on the Go Large plan. Furthermore, the source says, peer-to-peer traffic is rate limited at all times.

Telecom markets the full-rate/128kbit/s plan as having no monthly limit, but says a “Fair Use Policy” applies to it. This means traffic management will apply to the plan during the peak time of four in the afternoon to midnight, says Lenska Papich, Xtra spokeswoman.

Papich says there is no monthly data limit on Go Large, but adds that if a customer downloads “an irregular amount” of data during peak times, Telecom may contact the person who then could be subjected to traffic management. Outside peak times, traffic will not count towards the Fair Use Policy.

The amount of traffic is defined by Papich as 20 times more than what the average user might consume during peak hours. Xtra’s Fair Use Policy is more specific, and states:

"If in a single day you use more than 700MB of data during the peak hours of 4pm to 12am (midnight) then we'll get in touch with some advice on how to reduce your usage. If your usage continues to be very high, then you may become subject to our Fair Use Policy".

If the user is in breach of the policy their account will be transferred by Telecom into a pool where a fixed amount of bandwidth is shared between the users in it. Telecom does not specify the amount of bandwidth available to users in the FUP pool, but users remain in there for one week.

Furthermore, if users continue to use a great deal of data for “sustained periods of a month or more,” Telecom says it may contact customers to move them to what it says is a more suitable plan.

Telecom says the best time to download large files is when its network isn’t busy — between the hours of midnight and four in the afternoon, it says. During those hours Telecom says customers are likely to get “a fast and reliable service as fewer people will be using the internet.”

The traffic management is aimed at file sharers, Papich says. It means that customers on the Go Large plan wanting to browse the web or send email get priority over those who use peer-to-peer software. Telecom has provided a long list of P2P applications that will be subject to restrictions.

Only one percent of customers are expected to be subject to the FUP, Papich says, and reiterates that the purpose of the plan is to assist low to moderate traffic users.

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Kevy_boi Junior member

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yea bt once more bussiness and say 5% of adsl pep are on it its gna drop in download rates because of the single underwater cable leading out of the country bt i think around 2011-2012 there shud b a 2nd one leading out of the country so that shud help with speeds, download caps, and price of adsl..

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i duno lol yes we are far behind as far as i no of most countrys dnt hve a data cap at all and quite a few of them hve 100mbps connections at the home :P lol bt most other countrys hve several lines going to the rest of the world and they hve bigger budgets for it i suppose.. if u wana read somthing upto date about it get the pc world mag im nt sure if it was last months edition or not bt its gt a few pages there as too whats to come and the current situation bout it all :P

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Mrbig Senior member

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haha well im happy with my plan Ive neva been capped and at times ive downloaded over 250songs 30 movies and surfed the web without any hiccups plus id rather put my money into my kids and my training than on my computer bill hehe but to each thea own I guess

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