On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:29:23 +1300, Robert McDonald wrote
No your right it says you can leech as much as you like national..... BUT it does not give you a CIR, meaning if they decide to they have every right to limit your access to that resource. They also have every right to share say 1mbit between 100 customers. Now if they all leeched 128 solid 24/7 they wouldn't get top speeds.
A CIR (Commited information rate) is what you need if you want reliability. Jetstart 128k is NOT what you buy to get reliability, and 128k 100% of the time when you need it.
Come on, I thought everyone knew this stuff?
I have two adsl connections and I've been fair hammering them all weekend for one thing or another (the wife's been installing php, apache, mysql, bbphp2 and more on her laptop). I get more than 128k CIR out of them all the time. Yes, I know what you'e saying and you are quite right. I also note that Xtra doesn't say that the service is not a 128k CIR. While you and I understand how the ISP business works I also understand that a product or service has to be what it professes to be. Cheers DiG -- Don Gould The technology exists to give every home 10mbits per second for $10 per month! Ask not what your telephone company should do for you... ...but what you can do for your broadband community!