BF2S Forums Why are the UK so "scroogeish" on internet bandwidth

Last edited by JohnLeavitt (2006-12-01 09:55:52)

Techworld wrote:

PLease tell me how the internet connections are in your country for comparison purposes.

Cheez wrote:

Techworld wrote:

PLease tell me how the internet connections are in your country for comparison purposes.

Aww. Poor you. Only 8Mb?. Lemme fill you in on Australian Broadband:

We have one giant prick of a govt. subsidiary that acts like a business (only care about shareholders and shit), that naturally owns almost the entire network of Australia. Now 7 years ago, when Telstra first brought in ADSL, they had the brilliant idea of throttling everyone to a max of 1.5Mb. Of course no-one could afford 1.5, because it was $80/month for 400MB or so. A couple years later, and other ISPs are finally allowed to use the national network, for around $30 per port, per month.

Now last month, Telstra reluctantly uncapped the 1.5. And we are all sitting and waiting for them to run around to every exchange and take off the collar. We can now have 8Mb for as little as $59.95 for 600MB. Not only that, they count uploads, and when you reach it they throttle you to 64kbps.

Now ADSL2+, that's something different. Because Telstra have been sitting on their arses with 1.5, all the other ISPs have been rolling out their own networks to as much as they can afford. So you can only get ADSL2+ in Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. So if your lucky enough to have had one of the ISPs enable ADSL2+ in your town, in your exchange, you can get 20GB, up to 24Mb for $59.95 (So that's fairly feasible pricing). Also, during this 8Mb suprise, Telstra also announced they are rolling out ADSL2+, but only in exchanges that already had another ISP put in their own 2+ DSLAM, (in fear that they'd have to sell it to other ISPs in Regional Aus)

Me however, I'm stuck on ADSL1 and using one of the other ISPs that can use the network. But because Telstra sprang this uncap on everyone, all the ISPs are rustling up plans to have 8Mbps. So for now I'm paying $64.95/month for 28GB on 512.

So have a sook on your Unlimited 8Mb why don't ya. Oh and speaking of Unlimited, we don't have that.

Techworld wrote:

RANT:@

I hate UK internet, most have a download cap for the month ( i dont but i cant really download that much due to throttling)
GEt this....

I pay for unlimited broadand that includes:

A peak time fair use policy inforce from 6pm - 11pm - this slows all p2p down, causes havoc with pings
a port throttle inforce 8am - 1 am - 5kb/s p2p until 1 am


I mean , what the hell is the uk's problem? we are one of most developed countries and yet we have this garbage connections. We're at average 8mb. Our connections are bleeding useless for anything.

PLease tell me how the internet connections are in your country for comparison purposes.

Last edited by Scorpion0x17 (2006-12-08 10:23:15)