This is yet another classic instance of what Telstra is good at. They were the first to come out with Cable, Got everyone in, then realised that their infrastructure can't really cope with the sudden load. I'm just wondering the guys who sit down and do the forcasting for this stuff at Telstra are currently booked on a plane to the Bahama's. Its a cop out to whack this limit on, as Optus did something similar, but decided to go for a sliding limit - which is currently at about 8 or 10 gig a month.
What gets me is they have a basic plan, they they have the freedom plan, for those that are *really* going to use the full capapbilities of the connection. what do they think people DO with the links?? Did they do their research on how much bandwidth online gaming takes up, or streaming Videos (as in the Big Brother TV show, with live video feeds, which everyone is hitting right now)?? Their email tells you "its ok, you can still download lots of MP3s"..Yeah, right.
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This is yet another classic instance of what Telstra is good at. They were the first to come out with Cable, Got everyone in, then realised that their infrastructure can't really cope with the sudden load. I'm just wondering the guys who sit down and do the forcasting for this stuff at Telstra are currently booked on a plane to the Bahama's. Its a cop out to whack this limit on, as Optus did something similar, but decided to go for a sliding limit - which is currently at about 8 or 10 gig a month.
What gets me is they have a basic plan, they they have the freedom plan, for those that are *really* going to use the full capapbilities of the connection. what do they think people DO with the links?? Did they do their research on how much bandwidth online gaming takes up, or streaming Videos (as in the Big Brother TV show, with live video feeds, which everyone is hitting right now)?? Their email tells you "its ok, you can still download lots of MP3s"..Yeah, right.
Go Telstra. What an Absolute farse.
Anyone started a Testra page on Angry.net yet??