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Death of Decent Australian Broadband
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."
You idiot ! you won;t have the cap for another 11 months !
dat dere name sounds like za pr0n site ya let me down nigga not lettin me see no big titties and oh those muthafuckin massive rear ends on those black chickz
yo d00d, dats wat u get dere homie livin in a big island dude. i wunder if deres any muthafing satilite around yo for those assies to use. kinda cool it wuld be to use sum of dat satilite an screw them isp in aussieland. but yo, maybe dem satilight thangs there donnt point dat way, yo. so yah, no service for ya. just a fuking though d00d.
who was it dat built dat there undawata cable crossin da pacific from tha usa to astrialia? americana companies or some aussie niggas?
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?
- Raynet --> .
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.