Death of Decent Australian Broadband

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday May 20, 2002 @08:27PM from the so-much-trouble-in-the-world dept.

iamplasma writes: "As reported by several Australian newspapers, Optus cable internet services will be switching their standard plan to a 3gb "soft-limit" broadband service (once the limit is passed, the service slows to 28kbps). This is effectively the end of decent broadband in Australia, with Optus being the only major provider to offer a service without a highly restrictive usage cap. This is also the ISP who proudly promoted themselves over their main competitor specifically over the issue of the competitor's 3gb limits."

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28.8kbps is good enough even for warezing by raynet · 2002-05-20 23:43 · Score: 1, Flamebait

IMHO the idea of adsl etc is that the connection is always open, so it doesn't really matter how fast it is. With 28.8kbps you can download almost 300megs a day and 8.9gigs a month. Isn't that enough?

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DSL isn't a free lunch by vanyel · 2002-05-21 07:31 · Score: 1, Flamebait

3GB/month is 100MB/day, well more than reasonable usage. The only way DSL can be as cheap as it is is because it's highly shared. Some method has to be in place to keep hogs from abusing the system to the detriment of others.