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Old Dec 2nd 2005, 12:36 pm
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I have signed up for 2 years with BigPond on their $39.99 plan which gives "broadband" 512k speeds and 400Mb traffic. It sounded loads but I used 460Mb in 2 weeks of November and already have 100Mb in under two days in December after downloading Skype and making a few calls, uploading a dozen pictures and an hours surf. So I have just had to upgrade to the "unlimited" $69.99 plan from January. We are going to have to ration internet use this month. If anyone is thinking of getting one of these capped plans - be warned they are far from sufficient.
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I have signed up for 2 years with BigPond on their $39.99 plan which gives "broadband" 512k speeds and 400Mb traffic. It sounded loads but I used 460Mb in 2 weeks of November and already have 100Mb in under two days in December after downloading Skype and making a few calls, uploading a dozen pictures and an hours surf. So I have just had to upgrade to the "unlimited" $69.99 plan from January. We are going to have to ration internet use this month. If anyone is thinking of getting one of these capped plans - be warned they are far from sufficient.

I had 400mb plan with optus was nooo good have upgraded it now....sweet
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I had 400mb plan with optus was nooo good have upgraded it now....sweet
I just worked out that at the rate we are using it this month it will cost us an extra $172 a month if we didn't upgrade
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I just worked out that at the rate we are using it this month it will cost us an extra $172 a month if we didn't upgrade
when we went over ours it didnt cost us owt we just got put bac to dial up which was a pain in the tits
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I just worked out that at the rate we are using it this month it will cost us an extra $172 a month if we didn't upgrade
I've got the unltd plan. I think it gets throttled after 10 gigs, but havent reached that yet despite downloading shedloads of music as well as work and pleasure use.
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I've got the unltd plan. I think it gets throttled after 10 gigs, but havent reached that yet despite downloading shedloads of music as well as work and pleasure use.
I got 10 gig on mine...but during the nite u get an extra 10g free
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I got 10 gig on mine...but during the nite u get an extra 10g free
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thats what i thot lol and 3 months free cos i got home fone too
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thats what i thot lol and 3 months free cos i got home fone too
Did you get jam on it too ?
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Did you get jam on it too ?

naw which i thot was a bit of a ****** rip off lol
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naw which i thot was a bit of a ****** rip off lol

Yep. They certainly saw you coming
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I got unlimited from telpacific and a free modem thrown in for $50 a month.


They took a pound of flesh in stress as well

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Capped broadband is a mug's game!
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Originally Posted by worzel
I just worked out that at the rate we are using it this month it will cost us an extra $172 a month if we didn't upgrade
Stop downloading the porno then.
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Originally Posted by worzel
I have signed up for 2 years with BigPond on their $39.99 plan which gives "broadband" 512k speeds and 400Mb traffic. It sounded loads but I used 460Mb in 2 weeks of November and already have 100Mb in under two days in December after downloading Skype and making a few calls, uploading a dozen pictures and an hours surf. So I have just had to upgrade to the "unlimited" $69.99 plan from January. We are going to have to ration internet use this month. If anyone is thinking of getting one of these capped plans - be warned they are far from sufficient.
why bother having broadband if even with dialup you can easily download more than 600mb iin a month.
BTW, theres no such thing as unlimited downloads since I think youll find its only unlimited until you go over your isp's acceptable use policy which covers their ass should you be a frequent downloader.
512k is a joke too plus these days the upload speed is way lower which has slowed down all users of shared p2p files. Doesnt do any good if you have 512k if your downloading from a p2p user who has a 64k capped upload speed.
Gone are the days of 2mb up and 2mb down which I had in canada, I got a complete album of santana's supernatural in less than 5 minutes plus I was queuedby the sharer on napster after 2 tracks..........
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