A non data capped plan from Telecom
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:59 am by David FarrarThe Herald reports:
Telecom is to offer an uncapped broadband internet deal but customers will have to trade off connection speed.
From next week a new $60 a month “all you can eat” plan will be offered with the compromise that downloads may be slower at peak times. …
Brayham said during peak hours – generally 3pm to 10pm – internet traffic “shaping” would target files consuming large amounts of bandwidth, which could include some music, movie and software downloads.
I think this is a great move. NZ is the only OECD country with no non data capped plans – finally we have one.
I have no problem with data capped customers getting priority speeds during peak times. File sharers often download overnight and are generally more worried about the data cap, not the speed – so long as it is reasonable.
Of course we have to see exactly how fast things go during both off peak and peak times, but if the service holds up Telecom could do well with this offering.
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July 2nd, 2009 at 11:11 am
I am still on the old Telecom Go large plan. Unlimited internet. However, it is so slow at peak times you may as well have dial up.
Vote:July 2nd, 2009 at 11:14 am
I’d rather just pay for 20GB a month at a decent speed.
At least Telecom are being upfront with traffic shaping this time though.
Vote:July 2nd, 2009 at 11:22 am
goonix, I get exactly that from TelstraClear, and it costs $60 a month, although I usually only pay 48 a month as I rarely go above 10 gig. At least TC let me buy more data WHEN i need it, unlike Telescum who won’t.
I can have 10 gig most months, but if I truly need 40gig one month, its easy as with TC
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Vote:July 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 am
Time will tell how well they implement it. Also whether they will wholesale it on to other ISPs.
I use a max speed ADSL plan with low cap (10GB) for my usual browsing, and a $10/month unlimited dial up plan for queued downloads (yes, mostly torrents). This also means I don’t have to allow certain traffic to have access to my DSL router, so I don’t need to open up extra ports on it. It took a bit to set it up, but the downloads go to an old PC firewalled off from the rest of the network and can be scanned before moving them to the media centre PC.
Vote:July 2nd, 2009 at 11:35 am
Read the fine print, these plans are as shit as go large:
- Shaped
- Other plans have priority
It will be slow as shit. Their contention ratio is ridiculous.
Vote:July 2nd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I have had a plan with no data cap for several years, with XNet. (But I pay per GB of data.) They also have a special plan for “torrent” users, with lower data rates during the early hours of the morning, and higher rates otherwise.
Can’t say that our broadband is 21st century yet, though. It seems we need more NZ data sites and/or bigger pipes to overseas.
Vote:July 2nd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Im a Go Large customer and happy with it from the start (especially when i got a $160 refund for basically nothing as I was happy anyway ) , usually get a 200-300kb/s download rate , and use about 50gb a month, for $49.95 per month its good value, it can be slightly slow streaming video (youtube) in the evenings but if you let it buffer for 30 sec’s usually fine. Any other plan or company I would pay a lot more for 50gb so pretty good deal , the lack of worry about exceeding your cap makes it well worth it, So i wont be changing especially since its $10 more . Lets hope they don’t muck with the existing Go Large!
Vote:July 2nd, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Mike, don’t worry — I pay through the nose for the full-speed plan and my YT downloads still buffer at peak-times.
I’m hoping that every man and his dog will opt for the uncapped plan so they won’t hog the full-speed bandwidth I’m supposedly paying more for.
Vote:July 2nd, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Mike78 – what are you downloading to get through 50Gb a month? I have a (self-imposed) cap of 12GB and apart from the usual stuff, that gets me about a dozen movies a month, which I never get through anyway. Are you streaming live TV?
Vote:July 2nd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I’d be happy to be able to get any kind of broadband at all.
I’m only 10km from a township and still unable.
ps, how is Telecom able to afford this, and the big supplement in today’s Herald advertising their new XT Network?
Vote:Check your next Telecom bill and you’ll find you have to pay the return postage yourself if (like my folks) you’re paying by cheque. It used to be freepost.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:20 pm
I dont really watch local tv, but we watch a few tv series, Lost, NCIS things like this, sat down the other night to watch NCIS on TV3 – was so frustrated by the constant ads (every 10mins, 4 mins of ads) you couldnt even enjoy it, so jumped on and got the entire season of the net (25eps at 350mb each) in 6 hours – now can watch when I like with no interruptions and save 20 mins per hour doing so. Thats the future of tv in my view. So with that lot, few of those seasons, few other things, + aaplication/game demos – youtube etc and just general usage, updates for a few Pc’s etc , it seems easy enough to get right up there – saying that I know others who are in the 100′s of GB and i wonder how myself. One thing which is different which I guess is worth mentioning is my close proximity to an exchange, its about 300m from my house at the most, although saying that my connection speed is 14mb/s (according to the router) and I only get 200k/s download, so clearly it is capped in some way.
Vote:July 2nd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
“I am still on the old Telecom Go large plan. Unlimited internet. However, it is so slow at peak times you may as well have dial up.”
Ditto.
Vote:July 2nd, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Did anyone see TV3 news last night? Hilarious, the news reader said something like this. “TV3 unreservedly apologises for suggesting there was any price collusion between Telecom and Vodafone, we meant to say it is a straight out rip off”.
Vote:July 2nd, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Welcome (almost) to the 21st century NZ
I pay £17 for 24m download unlimited usage. My exchange is at the end of my street so often it’s even faster.
Vote:July 2nd, 2009 at 11:17 pm
So it’s back again with a Go Large plan that works this time, hopefully
Vote:July 5th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Anyone know how much $ Telecom sends offshore as profit every year?
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