[plug] OT: internet connections + gaming (was: School Web Page)

[Craig Ringer]

> Not to mention that Telstra charge extra per extra user sharing the 
> connection and that they give you no more bandwidth for your money.  Of 
> course you don't have to tell them, but what would happen if they found 
> out? :)

They get around to ripping you off another way. A while ago I got 256k 
cable and only had it for 3 months before Telstra decided that "instead 
of 3 gig /month you now get 1 gig at the same price, or you can have 3 
gig still but only at $20/month extra". I'd signed up on the rationale 
that they'd only recently re-done their pricing so they couldn't 
possibly do it again for a year or so... *sigh*. I went back to 56k with 
iiNet (I only suspended, not cancelled, my acct when I went to Cable - 
damnn good move) and demanded an install fee refund. They've agreed but 
I'm still waiting for my refund 6 _months_ later. They even blamed _me_ 
for wanting to leave after they changed the pricing, and said that they 
were being "gracious" in waiving the usual disconnection fee. So 
technically they _can_ up your fees to $500/month with $50/mb and zero 
allowance, and say "sorry, its $450 to leave, too".

Telstra will _always_ find a way to rip you off.

> I get latency of 39-45ms on my unloaded ADSL, but thats due to there 
> being 2500km of ATM between my exchange (Broome) and the Wellingston 
> Street exchange in Perth :).  Others in Perth get as little as 10-15ms.

So in fact that's _really_ quite impresive. When our link is really 
hammered with people updating things, etc etc I have recorded real-world 
pings of over 10 seconds to dns.iinet.net.au.

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