On Thursday 26 October 2006 12:13, Lucas Young wrote:
> I'm liking Orcon's offering - I was on the 3.5/512 plan with a 60GB
> cap for $160/mth, I'm upgrading to the fullspeed/fullspeed plan with
> 100GB for $180, and that's going to keep me happy for a long time - I

When Orcon was still offering their real 256kbits/s flatrate, I reached 70GB
per month quite regularly (~83GB is the maximum possible per month at this
speed). With 3.5Mbits/s or even more I would probably eat this volume for
breakfast and face a huge bill at the end of the month for exceeding the
cap...

Also: the 256kbits/s flatrate only cost $49.95/month (later only if you
decided to join their tolls, otherwise $59.95), that's considerably less
$/GB.

Hmm, seems nothing is around then. Currently I'm swapping accounts once per
month with a friend who also has one of these Orcon 40GB/256k plans. He's a
very light user, so I'm still getting close to the 70GB mark without extra
cost.

> Telecom still charge ISPs when users go over the 5GB mark from memory...

Ok, so Telecom can still impose funny volume limits... I guess the whole
unbundling thingy is not really taking off then? The decision was made almost
half a year ago, so ISPs have had some time to put their own equipment into
the roadside racks? Or is the price for international bandwidth still
dominating the cost, even if ISPs put in their own equipment?

Cheers,
Raimund

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