> Yep, you can get around 30Gigabytes/month on jetstart..

Holy shit - I thought I was greedy for nudging 14GB.

The mind boggles at the kind of traffic which would run up 30GB @ 16kBps in
a month.

A popular web/ftp server?
Perhaps Gnutella, swapping lots of DivX movies?

That's close to total full-time saturation.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew" <gossard@xtra.co.nz>
To: <adsl@unixathome.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 16:01
Subject: Re: good choices for a jetstart isp?

> Yep, you can get around 30Gigabytes/month on jetstart..
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darrin Cooke" <darrin.cooke@dse.co.nz>
> To: "'David McNab'" <david@rebirthing.co.nz>;
> <daniel.carter@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>; <adsl@unixathome.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 2:28 PM
> Subject: RE: good choices for a jetstart isp?
>
>
> > Do they prevent you from going over 8GB / Month? Or do they ask you to
try
> > and keep from going over 8GB / Month?
> >
> > Just out of interest has anyone here managed to Download 8GB of data on
a
> > 16K connection within a month?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David McNab [mailto:david@rebirthing.co.nz]
> > Sent: Friday, 3 August 2001 2:14 p.m.
> > To: daniel.carter@stonebow.otago.ac.nz; adsl@unixathome.org
> > Subject: Re: good choices for a jetstart isp?
> >
> >
> > Web Internet may have good prices, but on talking to a sales rep just
now,
> > it seems they don't like customers exceeding 8GB/month traffic.
> >
> > So while they may be a bit cheaper, they're certainly *not* a true
> flat-rate
> > plan.
> >
> > So, it seems Xtra and World-Net are the best for heavy users.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "dan the person" <hedonist@win.co.nz>
> > To: <cesther@release.com>
> > Cc: <adsl@unixathome.org>
> > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 13:36
> > Subject: Re: good choices for a jetstart isp?
> >
> >
> > > I'd recommend web internet. The service is excellent, and the price
is
> > right. Why pay more for the same service?
> > >
> > > Only exception is if you're going to be gaming on paradises servers,
> might
> > be worth paying a bit more to be a few hops closer
> > >
> > > Chris Esther wrote:
> > >
> > > > So what ISPs would be a good choice for Jetstart? Or what factors
> would
> > > > others use to make this decision? Is there already a body of
> information
> > on
> > > > this available? A nice product matrix comparing ISPs perhaps ;)
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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