one small advantage I've found with diallup, is there are still unlimited plans. I've got a GIL $33.00 per month plan (Brisbane ISP). now it may not be fast, but so far this month starting on the 1st (today being the 4th of December) I've downloaded 1104mb's.

why is it that the broadband ISP's think 3gb's is a fair amount, when on a far lesser quality connection I'll easily break approximately 8.2gb's in this month?

what does everyone else think? does maybe 8gb's sound like a more fair and just deal, considering a diallup user paying $33.00 per month could easily flog that limit to bits?

3gb is nothing, but broadband = better pings. nuff said.

I agree wholesomely. The greater advantage to broadband IS the better pings and faster download speeds.

but are the pricing plans on BB not unfair and ghey beyond all recognition?

no

they are indeed ghey, but this debate has been had and lost so many times that most of us have been beaten into submission by the might/idiocy of the telcos and polies.

As I said back when the 3GB cap was announced, 10GB would have been a much more REASONABLE amount for a low end cap.

But of course, telstra was looking for the lowest they could possibly hit before everyone would just leave it for dialup, enter 3GB.

dialup is too slow, id rather download 3gig @ 400kb/s+ then 10gig @ 3-5kb/s

one thing about dsl.. is thers no download limits and its $70oz a month :P

1gb = leeching? ermmm yeah..... 2 months ago i DLed 2.6gb

1gb is nothing dude...

I'm going to die laugh once UK goes on caps.

epi, 1gb in 4 days

WTF? man you people do nothing!
a total juarez monkey iknow has pacifici DSL and d/l's non stop,... cuz at weekend and night time he has unlim d/l and he still d/l's through the day at 5 kb/s

not bad erik. i know someone that leeched 9gb in a mth.

im leeching about 1.2 gig average now on dial up

no, that's not me, that's what he said in his first post of the thread. (i have cable, so 3gb only)

i got 20 gigs in one month on 256
11 of those were mp3's

try downloading off mirc on dialup -most xdcc servers have a min 10k speed

no i wont try because they are s***e

ive downloaded over 200 gigs in two weeks once.

when I was living at my dad's and I had optus@home, I did 4gb's in 1.5 hours. I only stopped because I ran out of hdd space :P

mmm... optus@home grace periods rocked :P

*hands everyone a skippy badge*

ive been kicked off dialup twice for downloading too much.

Moo> 8.2Gb in a month on dialup? you know there are 10Gb adsl plans available, not as fast as cable but a lot faster than dialup.

but im sure if you can do 8.2Gb on dialup, you'd blow your 10Gb cap on adsl in no time at all :)

Actually gil is based in ipswitch, not brisbane last time i looked.

sif warez monkeys

Sif what

omg i downloaded heaps of pr0n roofles.....!



wankers.

ahhaaha eds

Hey wow look at that.. my isp has increased the dload limit of my plan AGAIN. Oh Telstra, how I miss thee.

(the above post may or may not be relevant to the current thread)

if you think dialup is so great cause its so cheap and unlimited

DSL for 60$ can be unlimited plus more then 10x the dial up speeds =p

basically the only thing that would stop you from getting these plans is the upfront 200$ for installation etc

Buut... thats up to you.