It is tempting to get , but with only 1 of my 3 needs/wants being met ( dl
speed yep , upload no , lpb game ping no ) ill wait for flat rate dsl. I got
a zfree account solely for playing quake and I get a 95 - 110 ping to
games.gen ( ihugs gaming server ) which is pretty incredible ( for dial up
of course :P )
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Hoult [mailto:brucehoult@pobox.com]
Sent: Thursday, 5 October 2000 22:32
To: Brett Cross; keri Ring; adsl@unixathome.org
Subject: RE: clear/telecom deal
At 10:20 PM +1300 5/10/00, Brett Cross wrote:
>>At 9:03 PM +1300 5/10/00, keri Ring wrote:
>> >Does DSL data cost an isp more than modem based data?
>>
>>I can't see why.
>>
>>
>> >Cos essentially I could get a flat rate dial up connection and use
>> >
>> >approx 10meg per hour, * 12hrs per day, * 20 days per month (heavy
usage
>> >average)
>> >
>> >giving 24 gigs data for a measly $24.95,
>> >
>> >thats a data cost of 1.04c per megabyte. - even if you take 10% of this
>> >usage it is only 10c per mb!
>> >
>> >Are these ISP's offering flate rate making large losses,
>> >or are we simply paying what the market will stand for dsl? at 20c per
meg.
>>
>>Well, notice that Ihug's Satnet/StarNet/Ultra has historically (OK,
>>for the last 12 months) had accounts for $70/month with 3072 MB of
>>data. That's 2.3 cents per MB. They supposedly charge 10c/MB for
>>additional data but I've never managed to actually use that much.
>>
>>Now, Ihug are offering Ultra accounts for $60/month with a 300 hour
>>limit but unlimited data. If you download a lot you could easily get
>>that down to 0.1 c/MB.
>
>only problem with that is that if your not in line of site with the sky
>tower the service is non to flash ( I have been told by ihug employees not
>to get it if you cant see the sky tower ) also a friend of mind had
problems
>with the card overheating :)
Well, I've got to say that my view of the Sky Tower isn't all that
good on the average Wellington day so I've been using the
direct-from-satellite system for 18 months and it's just fine.
The original Telsat card apparently doesn't like temperatures over
40C and it puts out a fair bit of heat itself, so you do need to
watch it. I shoved a Dick Smith indoor/outdoor thermometer on mine
to monitor it and in my PC it sits at a very constant 8C above room
temperature, no matter whether room temperature is 12C or 25C or
anywhere in between. It doesn't get hotter than that here in WN, so
it's been fine for me. Apparently some people put extra fans in
their PC to keep the temp down.
Regardless, that was the *original* card. There have been half a
dozen newer cards since then without any temperature problem, and
Ihug are currently in the process of swapping all the old telsats for
newer cards because they are upping the satellite bandwidth from 8
Mbps to something like 40 or 50 Mbps in a couple of weeks and the
Telsats can't handle that.
-- Bruce
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