growler_south | (no subject)

Our lovely ISP, Telecom, are retiring their traffic-shaped all you can eat plan. The official word is that too many people were complaining about the traffic management, which isn't surprising given the low IQ of the general populace. Look, people, it's unlimited because they can slow you down if you download too much. Dont complain if you get slowed down, just move to a plan that isnt traffic managed!

In any case, we're about to be moved to Telecom's next best offering for high bandwidth users: 40GB/month for $79.95 and $20/GB for additional data. Which means, at our current use of 300GB/month, our bill will go from $59.95 to $5279.95 a month.

Unsurprisingly, we're unlikely to be staying with Telecom. Other ISPs charge $2/GB, which is still outrageous but bearable.

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You can get better than $2/GB. Slingshot charge $1/GB if you buy in 50GB chunks, which are carried over from month to month. And they don't count traffic 1AM-7Am. I don't think they're the only ones.

I can understand tiered pricing for wireless data; spectrum is a limiting factor. There's no such limit on wired connectivity - DSL, cable, whatever. That approach just effing reeks.

OMG could this mean a return to analog porn?