At 12:13 p.m. 26/10/2006, you 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
>remember on a big month, downloading TV shows and movies, I might hit
>60GB max, I cant imagine I'd hit 100GB very easily even with the
>extra speed.

I'm with Ihug and have 40+40gb (peak+offpeak) for $90/month (with Ihug tolls). Unfortunately this plan is no longer offered but I'm still grandfathered. It does mean I only get 2 mbps down and 128k up. The down actually isn't too bad but the up can get bit annoying. However it's better then paying twice the cost or whatever.

The peak/offpeak issue on Ihug's old plans seems to work okay for me. You have to be a bit more careful but as I have a dedicated download computer it's easy to limit stuff during peak times. My preferred P2P client is eMule which works best when it's permanently connected anyway and I've found it actually still performs quite well when you limit download speed at peak time.

Telecom/Xtra's new pseudo unlimited plan doesn't actually seem to bad relatively, at least from the way it's presented. The L7 limiting of P2P might be a bit annoying but it depends how often it occurs and to what level. Since you wouldn't use P2P much at their peak time of 4pm-12am due to the 700mb limit if it predominantly occurs then then it won't be a problem IMHO. However the 700mb limit during peak times is a pretty low and could get to be a drag. With careful management it may work but this could be annoying. The primary problem IMHO won't be with P2P but more normal stuff (at least for me since I don't mind scheduling P2P at offpeak times since it tends to be stuff you don't want instantaneously anyway). They're supposed to give you a warning once but it's not clear how often this occurs. Do you get 1 day leeway every week? Every month? It would be far better IMHO if they gave like a 5gb limit/week during peak times rather then a 700mb/day. I guess this could mean more pro
blems during weekends and holidays though. Of course, Telecom may decide to expand their fair use to include offpeak time limits and perhaps their P2P limiting is going to be more severe then it sounds so it's still a bit risky.

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