And I recall when Actrix used to charge dialup accounts by data volume,
differentiated by national and international data. For ISDN (Centrex) I
think they provide a 1G free local monthly allowance.

Laurence
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Rout" <nick@taxlawyer.co.nz>
To: "Stephen Betts" <stephen.betts@Jalna7.co.nz>; <adsl@unixathome.org>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [adsl] 512k DSL? Not right now, says Telecom.

> Well don't saturn differentiate based on national/international???
>
> It cannot be too hard.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Betts" <stephen.betts@Jalna7.co.nz>
> To: <adsl@unixathome.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 12:03 PM
> Subject: RE: [adsl] 512k DSL? Not right now, says Telecom.
>
>
> although a great idea, it would be two hard to monitor a local / national
/
> international/ pricing scheme
> you maybe could do it based on IP address ranges for the nz ISP's which
> could but you could not do it based on domain names as most of this list
> have addresses that are international, yet I presume most are in NZ ?
>
> the best you could get would be for telecom to not monitor your traffic
> between 2am and 6 am or record it seperately at no charge. like a happy
> hour(s)
> I suspect that even this would be difficult as the jetstream-usage page
> seems to monitor traffic at random times
>
> I'd find it convenient to have access to the free games context without
> having to reboot the M* every time. it must be possible, but there does
only
> appear to be 126 addresses that are valid.
>
> PS the usage page was back again last night.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nem [mailto:zagadka@penguinpowered.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2000 11:34
> To: Adsl MailingList
> Subject: Re: [adsl] 512k DSL? Not right now, says Telecom.
>
>
> Yeah, but then your isp has to do something with your (28 * 24 * 60 *60 *
> 256 )/(8*1024) Mb of traffic = 37800Mb. For $29.95 . Granted you'll only
use
> a fraction of that, but still even that's going to cause a problem for an
> isp trying to supply you with that much bandwidth for 29.95 .
>
> Still, I agree that 128k doesn't really cut the mustard. I'd like to use
the
> current jetstream, but with local/national/international pricing scheme.
>
> -Nem
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Jones" <Mark-Jones@xtra.co.nz>
> To: <adsl@unixathome.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 11:02 AM
> Subject: RE: [adsl] 512k DSL? Not right now, says Telecom.
>
>
> > Yes bugger is right. We are a DSL user at work and I have been
> considering
> > it for home but the data cap would prevent me from doing some of the
> things
> > that I want to do and because of that I cannot justify the added expense
> > over my dial-up account.
> >
> > 128k flat rate is a start but I would not consider using it. If they
> > offered a higher speed (even 256k would convince me) I would be in with
a
> > grin. ;-)
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > P.S. Sorry, but had to put in my 2c worth towards the flat rate debate
> that
> > has been around for the last week...
> >
> > +--------------------------------------------------------+
> > | Mark Jones | Today Software NZ Ltd |
> > | mailto:mark@posperfect.com | 97 Great South Rd |
> > | http://www.posperfect.com | PO Box 74-510, Market Rd |
> > | DDI : +64+9+520-7216 | Remuera |
> > | Tel : +64+9+520-1486 | Auckland |
> > | Fax : +64+9+520-1591 | New Zealand |
> > | Mob : +64+21+276-2991 | |
> > +--------------------------------------------------------+
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: BadMsgQ@today.co.nz [mailto:BadMsgQ@today.co.nz]On Behalf Of
Aaron
> > > Martin
> > > Sent: Thursday, 14 December 2000 10:12
> > > To: adsl List Member
> > > Subject: [adsl] 512k DSL? Not right now, says Telecom.
> > >
> > >
> > > Bugger.
> > >
> > > http://www.idg.net.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/FC192DFE0EDE65F2CC2569B4006
> > > 5CC14!open
> > > document
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Aaron Martin
> > >
> > >
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