[plug] honeymoon is over - Telstra introduces traffic cap on freedom ADSL

[Bill Pickett]

I do not think that there is much convincing to be done.  All Telstra
business units charge each other for any of their services rendered.  Most
of the time they rip each other off so much just to keep the budget
allocations up.  Theres not much haggling to do just pay the price.  At
least you know the bill will get paid - not usually on time but eventually
it will be paid..

my $0.02

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Rogers [mailto:grogers at rnet.greenwood.wa.edu.au]On Behalf Of
Gavin Rogers
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:40 AM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] honeymoon is over - Telstra introduces traffic cap
on freedom ADSL


On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Matt Kemner wrote:

> > I'm sure they could handle you to have a 10-15 GB grab session over a
> > month...just not every month.
>
> Actually I think you'll find they can't.  Telstra (like most
> ISPs) purchases their bandwidth by the pipe size, so they need you to use
> a consistant size every month to minimise the size they need.
>

Telstra may purchase their bandwidth by the pipe size - but it
helps _a lot_ if you happen to also own the country's largest
ISP _and_ the country's largest Telco! No one can convince me
that Bigpond pays Telstra commercial rates for it's transmission
infrastructure!


Gavin.