Internet question.

[Ian Warren]

And why nothing is done about it .... same reason we everywhere wont say a word a .. and if you do your an Anarchist and get your postings deleted and mails sent deleted or if it Dose get to the top , the knobs , 'Keys' and his Twits say ... I don't recall , not my department .. Move along move along now ... with a ginger grin in behind saying ill kill you ill kill you !

[AlisterC]

QUOTE (IslandBoy77 @ Jan 25 2013,9:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah, something called "fair use policy", I believe... Which means it's not really unlimited at all.

Yeah exactly. I was on their unlimited plan for less than a month. I'm a low user, rarely breaking 30gb a month, but thought I would make the change so I didn't have to worry about my youtube usage.
On top of the 'fair use policy' is an even worse one. Being in the unlimited group, put me in the group of "heavy users" in the eyes of Orcon, so at prime times of the day, I was bundled with these heavy users and as a group, our internet speeds are throttled back. To the point the web was unusable. Single webpages taking minutes to open or not at all sort of thing. What was the point of unlimited internet if you've got none haha. So I ditched that group and went back to uncontrolled speeds in the data cap group. Basically Orcon say that they don't want the unlimited users taking all the bandwidth from light users just wanting to check their email. Users with download limits get higher speed service so their monthly allowance is fast. Unlimited users are second class citizens.

[Ian Warren]

With everyone savi about the speeds and usage , how far away is it before we are comparable to the countries and then when it is introduced how more more are they going to bill you for it ! .

[IslandBoy77]

Yep, Fibre is going to be the next rort. "They" are starting to realise that people are beginning to understand that our "broadband" (broadband is DSL - we have poor-man's copper ADSL) is both underpowered and over-priced: by quite some margin. Sure, things have improved quite a bit over the last 1-2 years. But that's like saying it's better to live in a corrugated iron shack than it is a cardboard one: which is true. The problem is, we still live in a digital "shack". I've heard a number of grumbles, especially from Asian visitors, at how incredibly expensive and slow our internet services are here. Given that it cost the ISPs almost nothing for the actual copper lines they've been using for ADSL over the last 10 years (Ian paid for that with his taxes back in the 60's & 70's - thanks mate! ), all they've done is get us to pay for their infrastructure WHILE they make a massive amount of profit along the way - from lines that the tax payer originally paid for! Sure, there's back-end stuff like servers & staff etc, but don't forget how unbelievably expensive ADSL was back in the good old "Jetstream" days, and for how many years "they" gouged us, and the mint that their management (not the workers, of course) made along the way.

So next up, fibre. It'll be another 10 years before we get realistic prices for that, and even then the poor old tax payer is footing some of that bill for laying the fibre thanks to "the gummint's" largesse. Oh, I know :"Blah blah digital knowledge base blah blah jobs blah blah good for the economy blah blah". But when a gummint uses tax payer money to fund private business, and that business turns around and then CHARGES the tax payer full whack for the service that they just subsidised, that's just plain WRONG.

[AlisterC]

Well said!