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Danylu · 01-07-09

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Originally Posted by MikersSU

By most of the rest of the world you mean Australia? I think not. The problem is the cable companies. A number of countries where broadband is regulated by the goverment offer services with very high speeds at fixed prices, and no caps. S. Korea is a good example. There's a reason why it's the most wired country in the world when measured per capita.

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Originally Posted by VulcanDragon

God, I hate when people say ignorant/jealous crap like this. The fact that the US has enjoyed a more consumer friendly all-you-can-eat model and you have not does not mean we should sit quietly by while we get dragged down to your level of service. You should be complaining to your local governments that your service levels suck and are anti-consumer compared to other countries, not tap dancing that the most consumer friendly model around is being burned to the ground.

You guys see, thats why I put lol in the sentence. Maybe OCN isn't good at sarcasm :/ I'll make it more obvious next time yeah?

I knew I should have made it more obvious

Munchkinpuncher · 01-07-09

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Originally Posted by VulcanDragon

God, I hate when people say ignorant/jealous crap like this. The fact that the US has enjoyed a more consumer friendly all-you-can-eat model and you have not does not mean we should sit quietly by while we get dragged down to your level of service. You should be complaining to your local governments that your service levels suck and are anti-consumer compared to other countries, not tap dancing that the most consumer friendly model around is being burned to the ground.

Totally agree.

Brutuz · 01-08-09

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Originally Posted by normanwall

Actually, our new government is trying to organize a national broadband network, but they're just really, really bad at it.

Having a painful company like Telstra with a monopoly on infrastructure doesn't help either.

Edit: I'm in Australia and I pay AU$105/month for 1.5megabit Down 256kilobit Up, unlimited downloads.(ADSL2/cable are not available here yet.)

Which ISP? I get same speeds with TPG, 25Gb onpeak and offpeak for $60 a month.

DigitalSonata · 01-11-09

I get 10mb/1mb from Charter CC for about 55$/mo, I haven't noticed any throttling or caps but their tech support is annoying. 250GB would not nearly enough for me between Netflix streaming, torrents (mostly books, tuts ect), Pandora, other online radio, updating Linux installs, pushing/pulling backups to/from online storage, and watching streaming HD video. I guess if ISPs in my area started throttling I'd have a reason to steal wifi.

Lt.JD · 01-11-09

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Originally Posted by Licht

I hate to say it but we might need congressional intervention.

Thinking the same thing

Licht · 01-11-09

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Originally Posted by Lt.JD

Thinking the same thing

Actually i take that back. We need Obama, given he seems to care about the US's technological level.

William151515 · 01-11-09

HA you call them plans BAD

come to Australia

we have to pay $80 AUD a month just to use a 25GB Cap with 1.5MB/s Download Speed
(megabits not megabytes) its about 162kb/s download

it sucks compared to over seas plans

unless you live in a major city like Sydney, Brisbane Melbourne etc, but even then its not much better the fast speed plans and 60GB cap are like $150 AUD a month

so we get no affordable high cap/speed plans, like they do in the USA
i hope it gets better here, otherwise id probably move country XD

and if they turn on the internet filter that blocks sites / peer to peer (dont use it) then id so leave because the internet would be slowed down to 80% speed of what ever our internet is, and that would SUCK sure i hate piracy but not willing to give up my already slow enough Internet connection speed for it

procpuarie · 01-11-09

glad i use teksavvy and have a "true" unlimited service with no strings attached.

usapatriot · 01-11-09

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Originally Posted by Twinnuke

Welcome to the united states, we still use the imperial measurement system. We are not the same, and should never be.

ditto.

vtech1 · 01-11-09

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Originally Posted by gamer11200

I wouldn't throttling if they did it during peak hours (9am - 5pm), aslong as they do an unthrottled period like from 9pm - 6am or something like that so all of the bittorrent and p2p users can do their downloading then without disrupting the casual web surfers.

As for the bandwidth cap, here is what I think is appropriate:

if your download speed is 1Mbit or lower: 20GB/month
1Mbit - 3Mbit : 50GB/month
3Mbit - 5Mbit - 100 GB/month
5Mbit - 10Mbit - 150GB/month

anything over that should get a general cap of 200GB. Perfect so that casual users and high bandwidth users alike can download and upload whatever they please with great flexibility.

i think ur full of it, if i pay for "unlimited service" then im gonna get unlimited service and if i dont then that counts as breach of contract and anyone can easily sue there isp!!! there i said it

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William151515 PC Gamer Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,685 Rep: 77 Unique Rep: 66 Trader Rating: 0	HA you call them plans BAD come to Australia we have to pay $80 AUD a month just to use a 25GB Cap with 1.5MB/s Download Speed (megabits not megabytes) its about 162kb/s download it sucks compared to over seas plans unless you live in a major city like Sydney, Brisbane Melbourne etc, but even then its not much better the fast speed plans and 60GB cap are like $150 AUD a month so we get no affordable high cap/speed plans, like they do in the USA i hope it gets better here, otherwise id probably move country XD and if they turn on the internet filter that blocks sites / peer to peer (dont use it) then id so leave because the internet would be slowed down to 80% speed of what ever our internet is, and that would SUCK sure i hate piracy but not willing to give up my already slow enough Internet connection speed for it

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