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Is this a "decent" internet connection?
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I has an idea. You mentioned that your current plan is $80 a month... the ADSL2+ plan for 12GB on Bigpond is $10 more, so you could tell your Mum to continue to pay the $80 a month while you pay the additional $10 a month. See what she says about that.
However, if your contract is nearly finished then I suggest switching to another ISP (Internode, TPG and Exetel are good) because Bigpond is so overrated.
Convinced Mum to go with TPG! We now have ADSL2+ for $40!! Well it will be here by Monday. Hope the speeds are good!
nice one!!! ive been trying to convince dad to go to TPG! but we cant get ADSL2+ (Telstra owns the exchange
). we might go onto the $80 plan, nice downloads nice work though! you will love it
minus 3mbps off the download and that is about mine. $100 per month FTW!!! woohoo
did you ever find out about the "unlimited downloads on the last day of the month" trick?? worked a treat up until about 3 months ago
they must have found out about it or something.
w00t! Congratulations!!
How much download do you get on $40/month? TPG's good.. you'll enjoy it. Speeds are great as well; they WILL be a lot faster than your 140kbps connection! ADSL2+ speeds are meant to have a MINIMUM download speed of 2000kbps so enjoy your new connection!minus 3mbps off the download and that is about mine. $100 per month FTW!!! woohoo
did you ever find out about the "unlimited downloads on the last day of the month" trick?? worked a treat up until about 3 months ago
Still works for me! I do all my Mac updates and PS3 downloads on that day.
Besides, I'm on their 'Liberty' plan, so if I go over the 12GB the speed drops down to a crappy 64kbps for the remainder of the billing period, but we don't get overcharged.
Still works for me! I do all my Mac updates and PS3 downloads on that day.
yes im on the 25gb cap, whatever that is called. and are you serious?? it still works?? the last time i tried it we didnt get uncapped so i presumed that they had fixed the "problem", i will definately be doing it again this month eheheh
Surely it means 2.5mbps, not mb/s, since that's all I get on a good day. Uploading anything is painful. I don't live in an area with cable/DSL service, though, so the only other option is 3G, but that would be even slower and capped at 5gb. We technically live outside the Clearwire service area too, so we are lucky to have it at all.
By the way, this Clearwire is pre-Wimax, pre-4G, or 3.5G technology, and it is not the same as true 4G WiMax being rolled out in Portland and Atlanta. Clearwire 4G Wimax is branded just as Clear, and has a separate set of plans and a different website. I'm hoping they upgrade us here, but I think they are having financial trouble, so it might not happen for a while.
Surely it means 2.5mbps, not mb/s, since that's all I get on a good day.
ummmmmm they are the same thing to me.. that would be in bits, not Bytes (bytes are the big B).
so you download at about 30kbps, and upload at 3kbps???
ummmmmm they are the same thing to me.. that would be in bits, not Bytes (bytes are the big B).
so you download at about 30kbps, and upload at 3kbps???
I always assumed it was the / vs the p that was the difference. But I think you are off by 10, it should be 300kbps and 30kbps.
This makes up for it, though:
well, assuming that their way of writing mb/s is actually the correct way, (megabits pe second) - then downloads will be 2.52mbps/8 = 0.315mBps. so yes apparently my calculations were wrong. mybad!
This makes up for it, though:
that does indeed make up for it. are you given bandwidth limits?
i have anywhere form 1/10th to 1/50th of that at my uni
I just got more space in my dorm, so I could fit you in to share the connection
I just got more space in my dorm, so I could fit you in to share the connection
sounds like a plan!! do you have a limit on how much u can download? we get $16 credit per semester, roughly 2gb. if we go over that $16 then we have to "recharge". i hate australian technology
No limit on downloads. According to University rulings, the Internet is given here free of charge for anyone to use how they see fit. As long as there is no interference with others connections no problem.
The only thing you can't do is download a download accelerator because apparently it creates more traffic on the University's servers than what there really is, so thats the only big no-no.
woooow.. if only!!!! i dream about the day something like that happens to me!!! ill give you moneys and you can download stuff and put it on DVDs and encrypt them and send them over HAHAHA
pfft as if their servers couldnt handle it lol they are gigantic! but yea if enough of them were there i guess traffic would be massively increased.
woooow.. if only!!!! i dream about the day something like that happens to me!!! ill give you moneys and you can download stuff and put it on DVDs and encrypt them and send them over HAHAHA
I can probably manage that.
I have seen the server room, they are enormous... I also liked a small site. Apparently, all servers run some form of Linux on them, but the main controls are from a Mac Pro.
According to the University official, the University's bandwidth total is around ~8-12Gb/s, then it gets divided into department Servers which later re-route all traffic to the respective routers or Wi-Fi hotspot providers... So your best place to download stuff in my University is go to the Main Department's Wi-Fi, and download away...Bandwidth is limited to what you see there (download speed might go a little higher later at night). Amount of data transferred is not really limited, though I have heard they will cut you off if you download over a terabyte in a day or something ridiculous like that. I assume there is a similar upload limit, but I have not heard of anyone running into it.
I'm guessing that the connection is capable of higher upload speeds, but they seem to cap it at 10mbps to discourage file sharing or to save money or something. I say that because download speed will vary a lot with load, but upload speed is almost never lower or higher than 10mbps. Maybe that is just because regular use requires a lot less downloading than uploading, though.
Another nice feature is that each student gets their own public IP address, which can in theory be used to run servers (though I haven't tested it, and I don't know if it is against any rules).
Sometimes I joke that it would be faster to download something at school and mail it home, and in fact it's true in a way! I drive home from Atlanta to Nevada this summer, and I took my total of around 2tb (a 1TB, a 640GB, a 320GB in my MBP, and a 200gb) of hard drives with me. The trip took four days, but since I brought 2tb with me, I moved the equivalent of over 5MB/sec! Latency is four days, or 3.4*10^8ms one way, though.
I'm guessing that the connection is capable of higher upload speeds, but they seem to cap it at 10mbps to discourage file sharing or to save money or something. I say that because download speed will vary a lot with load, but upload speed is almost never lower or higher than 10mbps. Maybe that is just because regular use requires a lot less downloading than uploading, though.
Another nice feature is that each student gets their own public IP address, which can in theory be used to run servers (though I haven't tested it, and I don't know if it is against any rules).
Sometimes I joke that it would be faster to download something at school and mail it home, and in fact it's true in a way! I drive home from Atlanta to Nevada this summer, and I took my total of around 2tb (a 1TB, a 640GB, a 320GB in my MBP, and a 200gb) of hard drives with me. The trip took four days, but since I brought 2tb with me, I moved the equivalent of over 5MB/sec! Latency is four days, or 3.4*10^8ms one way, though.
excellent, i might PM you later and we can get talking
I have seen the server room, they are enormous... I also liked a small site. Apparently, all servers run some form of Linux on them, but the main controls are from a Mac Pro.
oh of course, it would HAVE to be linux, they are jsut more practical and more programmable in that sense. its good that its all managed via a MacPro (maybe the unix in OSX is easier to connect with the Linux server farms then Windows?? im not sure). 8-12Gigabits per second?? thats impressive. thats insane. i wonder how much they pay and how many lines they have (one big fibre line or heaps of smaller fibres or whatever).
drool either way.
are you talking about at that particular uni? or general... because i get capped after 25gb at my house (back to 64kbps).... and at uni i get DISCONNECTED if i go over my credit limit until i give them more money.
I am talking about Georgia Tech specifically. I have heard a lot about the internet being generally slow and limited in Australia. It must be because of the limitations of undersea cables and the fact that most servers for English websites are probably in the US or Europe. It would make a lot of sense for an ISP there to set up a massive caching proxy so commonly accessed content only has to be downloaded from another part of the world once.
Populaiton density could be another factor, but I haven't been to Australia so I don't know. In the US, average internet speeds are lower than places like Japan since everything is spread out, and it is very expensive to run to places that don't have it. To make matters works, the phone and cable companies are often local monopolies, so they do not have much competition or reason to offer higher speeds. Cable seems to have gained an edge over DSL recently, though, and I suspect cable companies are trying to switch all their customers over to digital (requiring a settop box for most TVs) as soon as possible to free up more bandwidth for internet and HD content.
did you ever find out about the "unlimited downloads on the last day of the month" trick?? worked a treat up until about 3 months ago
Yes omg! I always did it, it was so good, even if you went over the limit it would be fast. That was my downloading day
@doubleohseven
40$ a month is 30gb. 15 peak, 15 off peak. It should be cool for us, we were looking at the 50gb for $50, but Mum wasn't convinced that we would use that much.
Wow. That's fantastic value there! Congrats again.
yes im on the 25gb cap, whatever that is called. and are you serious?? it still works?? the last time i tried it we didnt get uncapped so i presumed that they had fixed the "problem", i will definately be doing it again this month eheheh
Ya I'm srs it still works (at least for me it does!)
excellent, i might PM you later and we can get talking
oh of course, it would HAVE to be linux, they are jsut more practical and more programmable in that sense. its good that its all managed via a MacPro (maybe the unix in OSX is easier to connect with the Linux server farms then Windows?? im not sure). 8-12Gigabits per second?? thats impressive. thats insane. i wonder how much they pay and how many lines they have (one big fibre line or heaps of smaller fibres or whatever).
drool either way.
1. No problem... just let me get back to my dorm. Currently in Honduras
2. I don't know the exact speeds, but I did a combination from the totals from each teaching department (I didn't include Admin, Library and other miscellaneous departments). Also, I think we don't pay, I think we are a Internet node or gateway by ourselves, which might explain the crazy speed per user.