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Originally posted by webmeister Well I just got disconnected from the internet. I'd been connected for 62 consecutive hours (Friday night -> monday morning). In that time I've downloaded 880 megs (Armin 7 hour set and the start of the Trance Energy 2002 DVD ) .. just thought all u Optus cable peeps would like to know that hehehe

dont u have a 4hour disconnection thing that the stinge and scummy service people put on almost every other 56k plan?

i hate fine prints.. it always says in huge letters something like 'UNLIMITED CONNECTION etc. etc. etc.' and at the very bottom in pinny small leters there's always some catch.

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Originally posted by dj_nomiz dont u have a 4hour disconnection thing that the stinge and scummy service people put on almost every other 56k plan? i hate fine prints.. it always says in huge letters something like 'UNLIMITED CONNECTION etc. etc. etc.' and at the very bottom in pinny small leters there's always some catch.

nope .. my internet plan is for unlimited hours, unlimited downloads. the only limitation is 3 hours during peak time .. they define peak time as when the network is 90% full (so it doesn't happen every night). I guess we were just lucky this weekend, I'm not normally connected for that long

All that for $25 a month .. though if you're a gamer I don't recommend ihug - they use satellite for their backbone, which means you can only play games on their servers

JP - my phonebill is very small, in Australia our local calls are a flat rate (ie 20 cents will get u an indefinite phone call). Being connected for that long, I don't make many calls

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No change to get ADSL? or ISDN-128?

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Originally posted by webmeister the start of the Trance Energy 2002 DVD )

Where can I get that from? Give me the link!!


I'm with iiNet ADSL on the 256Kb/s plan, but my traffic has been shaped to 72Kb/s for some time, and will stay like that until I ease my downloading.

I think iiNet's 128Kb/s is great value for money at $50/month, you can turn it into an "unlimited" by downloading continuously and thus have your traffic eternally shaped at 72Kb/s... theoretically you can get 18Gb/month = 600MB/day... not bad for $50/month. I'm thinking of doing that because I'm a volume user, not speed.

I've only seen it on the hub....

Sorry dude

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webmeister: yeah I am on iHug also, i find their service great, I usually get disconnected on average, about once a day during that 3 hour disconnect period. I didn't used to get disconnected every day but now they have alot more subscribers in Melbourne so the modem pool gets a little full these days. But I have never got a busy dialtone. At one point when there was less users on iHug Melbourne I was connected for 4 days.

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Originally posted by InSoMnIa^ webmeister: yeah I am on iHug also, i find their service great, I usually get disconnected on average, about once a day during that 3 hour disconnect period. I didn't used to get disconnected every day but now they have alot more subscribers in Melbourne so the modem pool gets a little full these days. But I have never got a busy dialtone. At one point when there was less users on iHug Melbourne I was connected for 4 days.

yeah .. i get a few busy signals up in Sydney, but I don't think I've ever seen a better deal for dialup... too bad some people really hate ihug .. i've never had a problem with them..

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