I just got told by my bro, Optus are changin their cable internet services as they will have no more unlimited download. It will be a limited download of 3 Gigs a month.

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Sucks hey. And I was thinking of getting Optu$ cable. I'm not now. I mean I download 500mb a week on my 28.8 modem, imagine what I would be like with cable...

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Yah same ... seems like the broadband services are getting worse and worse, ie paying more for a crappier service

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The new limits is for new customers and customers that are at the end of the 12 month contract. I'm one of the lucky ones that got mine in feb so i get to d/l away.

There is a limit for existing contracts but it's like 11GB over any 14 day period. Still plenty to play with.

ya, unfortunately we're one of the long-term users

our 15g/month average over 9 months (that's how long i've installed du meter for) now has to be cut 1/5th

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Peace 'n Love! • Mikey • Sydney, Australia.

Yes it is fuckin bullshit... I can't download movies now i have to check always how much i have downloaded... How about the fuckin Uploads 15k what the fuck is that shit...?


FUCK OPTUS if you ask me

So much for the days of 30gb/month leaching :-(

As far as I'm aware, the changes will be that you have a 3gb download cap, afterwhich, you won't be disconnected, but rather, your bandwidth will be limited to the equivalent of 56k (5.2k/sec or whatever).

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hmm...i was told it was 28,8k!??!

not that it's any better

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Peace 'n Love! • Mikey • Sydney, Australia.

It would be 56k speed, but it would be *true* 56k speed, not the 44-48k speed that we all get through our dialups.

You'd get constant 6.5k/s downloads, simply because your DSL/Cable doesn't have to transmit a stop bit (giving it an extra 1/8th speed).

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What shits me about this stupid 3gig cap, is that i download 3gig a month on 56k anyway!! And that's not even trying. At least Optus leaves you with a 56k equivalent instead of slapping on crazy per megabyte charges ala Telstra. What shits me about Optus is that they dont cover my area - Surrey Hills. Just went out to Notting Hill (ugh) to order our new computer, we shall get it next Saturday, i would love to have cable to fill the 160gigs


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Pointy

Tell you what guys - I went over my 3gig cap not long ago, and I must say - the speed is much worse then a 28.8kbps modem!

The speeds are horrific, the net is barely surfable.

Optus sucks.

There's my 2cents!

-mrbernie

I don't know if it's really *that* slow .. you're just used to the instantaneous-ness of cable

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