{"id":42,"date":"2007-04-27T14:53:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T04:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/?p=42"},"modified":"2007-04-27T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T04:53:27","slug":"8-mbit-adsl-6-gb-download-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/2007\/04\/27\/8-mbit-adsl-6-gb-download-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Mbit ADSL, 6 GB download limit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s right. My current ISP, iiNet<\/a>, has just launched some new broadband plans<\/a> (the “broadband1” plans). The new offerings now include a 8 Mbit\/s plan, but strangely, only offers 3 GB of downloads during peak usage hours (12pm to 2am), with a further 3 GB during off-peak hours. The 8 Mbit\/s is a theoretical maximum, so most likely I’ll get between 4 Mbit\/s and 6 Mbit\/s – even at 4 Mbit\/s, this means that if I download at the maximum speed continously, I’ll use up the 3 GB limit in less than 2 hours! After the limit is reached, the speed is capped to 64 kbit\/s, or a nice and speedy 8 KB\/s. Not only that, this is actually the most expensive plan available for home users – there is no option to get more bandwidth! Even for a somewhat broadband-backwards country as Australia, these plans are ridiculous (the phased out set iiNet plans used to include a 30 GB plan, albeit at a higher cost).<\/p>\n

iiNet’s ADSL2 (“broadband2”) plans are a little more generous, 10 GB peak\/10 GB offpeak, but the problem is that ADSL2 is only available in very select areas (as determined by where iiNet install their own hardware DSLAMs), and certainly not available in my area. I know it is in iiNet’s interests to promote their ADSL2 plans, and if I had ADSL2 in my area, I would sign up immediately. But the case is that I’m stuck on “broadband1”, and I get punished by these crappy plans because iiNet haven’t bothered to install the proper hardware in my area.<\/p>\n

There are business plans available which gives more bandwidth, but I would have to spend $20 more to get roughly the same plan I am on now (but with an upgrade to 8 Mbit\/s), bringing my yearly ADSL bill to $AUD 1908 ($US 1575). I would have to bundle their VOIP service, which I don’t need, and pay extra (included in the $1908) for a static IP address, which I do need.<\/p>\n

Of course, the situations is more complicated than it seems, with Telstra’s (our major telecommunication provider) wholesale ADSL policies being the source of the pricing problems. But the rival broadband provider, Internode<\/a>, is able to provide the same 8 Mbit\/s connection, with 40 GB of bandwidth that can be used anytime (no peak usage times), a faster 128 Kbit\/s cap, and all of this at $20<\/strike> $10 cheaper (edited 5\/5\/07: me bad at maths) than my current iiNet (phased out) plan (or a massive $40 per month savings on iiNet’s closest comparable plan) – so if your competitors can do it, why can’t you iiNet?<\/p>\n

Churn baby, churn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s right. My current ISP, iiNet, has just launched some new broadband plans (the “broadband1” plans). The new offerings now include a 8 Mbit\/s plan, but strangely, only offers 3 GB of downloads during peak usage hours (12pm to 2am), with a further 3 GB during off-peak hours. The 8 Mbit\/s is a theoretical maximum, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pzVMv-G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digital-digest.com\/blog\/DVDGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}