*sigh* Australian broadband SUCKS bigtime!

god broadband sucks in this county...
limited companies to choose from (the great ripoff merchant telstra, optus and a few minor players)
high charges 80 AU bucks a month for DSL
bandwidth limitaitons, download caps of 3Gb/month (or less)

*sighs*
all i want is my bell canada account back here in australia. 128kb down, 16kb up, absolutely no limits what so ever for 25 bucks a month.

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You are getting screwed six ways to sunday.

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yet somehow i managed to get 128kbytes/sec unlimited download DLS in canada for THE SAME PRICE as what im paying now for unlimited dialup, except now im also getting booted every 4hours

and ive just read the 'fair terms of use'
what a draconian list of rules.
movies are frowned upon
as is music
downloading of binaries
anything remotely fun related

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sattelite? whats that?
besides... even if i could find it i would like to play the odd shootemup online

Overclocked athlon 1200C @ 8.5 x 166FSB + PC2700 = GOOD!

well i was on the bulk average bell canada market penetration dsl option.
128k/sec doesnt sound much...
till u leave it on 24/7
i could easily crack 2 gig in aorund 6 hours or so.

Overclocked athlon 1200C @ 8.5 x 166FSB + PC2700 = GOOD!

Hmm, I live in Toronto, Ontario in Canada, and I get cable internet through Rogers. Rogers offers 3mbps downloads and 400kbps uploads. The highest downloads I've seen in KB/s was 384KB/s and 45KB/s for uploads.

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About $35 CDN or $23 USD.

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Toronto has the best broadband in the world! hehe

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TO all the the Bell Canada users and all the Shaw users out there:

I recently read an article in the Globe and mail. Apparently Bell is in the next year implamenting a payment structure for users.
There will be three different types of users. 1) peeps who check there email. 2) 'active' users 3) Bandwidth hogs
The cost structure is suppose to be in the range of for: 1) $20.00/month 2) $30-$50/month and 3) $80-$100/ month.
First this sucks for all the bandwidth hogs. Most of us are. Second. YOu will never want to dl an ill**al ware ever again. With the FBI using Carnivore to track people dl certain 'things', it will get a lot easier for them to bust people acting as servers for, 'things', or dl it at all. I think mainly of that 15 year old guy in New Zealand that got busted a couple months ago with over a Terabyte of illegal warez....yes you heard right a terabyte. I cant imagine.
Just be wary people. Theres no such thing as privacy on the internet, more so then we are willing to admit, accept or understand.
As for Shaw, I just saw on the news a couple of nights ago that there going to be implementing a very similar plan.


I for one am really happy to not be using cable right now. For a multitued of reasons from Privacy issues(espec. w/ shaw), sharing bandwidth(sucks). Its not consitant(or safe), aswell as reasons such as Im getting 1.7megs a second dl, and that doesnt change because it my bandwidth. SO if something happens and everyone signs on at the same time, my bw isint effected. Its a nice feeling to fall back onto considering all the sh-it going on in the world right now. ( the 700k upstream is nice and consistant too )

Toronto does not have the best broadband in the world. Guelph is faster. The cable is almost twice as fast there. Alot of my friends and my brother lives in T.O and has Rogers. My other brother is in Guelph and he also has rogers, which smokes. Quicker than my bell sympatico dsl in hamilton

Blame the newbies not the technology

found the article i wanted in the newspaper today

"telstra criticised over net fees rise"
small school fees from $200 to well over $2000
medium $700 to $4000
large $1120 to $5000
the rises would be partially ofset by a slight reduction in the per megabyte usage rate

another quote
"telstra is abandoning all its sense of social and community obligation and just dashing for cash"

apparently all this boils down to shareholders. they are unhappy with the financial performance of telstra, so prices go up.
school internet, busness, private, mobile phone charges & SMS.
impressively bad

god im glad i dont have telstra cable or dsl...\
but im sitll stuck on lousy 56k

Overclocked athlon 1200C @ 8.5 x 166FSB + PC2700 = GOOD!

i gots ADSL from Telus in Alberta Canada
1.5mb down, 512kb up for $26 per month (CDN)

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not as bad as Malaysia. Only 2 companies and only 1 is available widely. Dial-up broadband is 4cents per minute while fixed IP costs a hell lot(don't remember how much).
USD 1= RM 3.825

i think there is sattelite... bout as expensive and proly more crap and missmanaged than adsl and cable.

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