I pay 41USD for 30GB/month including uploads. Not as bad as 10GB/month excluding uploads for the same price.Originally Posted by Octane
Also note I'm not in the US or EU countries.
FST Crew
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I pay 41USD for 30GB/month including uploads. Not as bad as 10GB/month excluding uploads for the same price.
Also note I'm not in the US or EU countries.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music"
Poster
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I see why you love NZB, no need to upload.I pay 41USD for 30GB/month including uploads. Not as bad as 10GB/month excluding uploads for the same price.
Also note I'm not in the US or EU countries.
How fast (or slow) is your connection anyways if I may ask?
FST Crew
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1500/256 which is probably standard around here. If you're lucky enough to get ADSL2+ then you can get speeds of 24mb/1mb, but that's only in the cities.I see why you love NZB, no need to upload.
How fast (or slow) is your connection anyways if I may ask?
Also the Government paid jobs get speeds of 80mb/80mb (depending on where they're located in the country).
When I used to go to school the speed was 11mb/11mb, which was sad because nobody around us could get anymore than 1.5mb.
The Government has said he'll introduce FTTH in the near future, which in my opinion will be overpriced and be taken over by Telstra.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music"
I currently run on FiOS and it is 100% better than Comcast. I found that Comcrap was down nearly 50% of the time I went to use the internet. When calling tech support they would claim either a small outage in my area was currently showing up, or there was some maintenence, or they would say they didn't see problems. I never have those problems with FiOS. It's 100% solid and we don't have a bandwidth limit
bunny
if you go for a higher plan that requires a different modem (sb6120 currently) then you will have higher priority over normal users (even business users) and will not be capped by the 250gb limit.
There is a way! You can buy a hacked sb5101 and then you will have a second hacked line. You can do all your BT on that line and keep your normal stuff on your paid line. If you do that then you will look like a good user. Just keep in mind that hacked lines are also limited to 250GB so every time you get close (like 200GB) then you will want to switch your ID on your hacked line. if you're using 1TB a month then once every week you will need to change the hacked modems ID. It will make the legit users you're pretending to be get fucked in the ass but that isn't your issue regardless.
Two-Three things to keep in mind...
1. Comcrud 'corporate' rules/regs are kept VERY close to 'internal' only, as they are being watched like a hawk by Uncle Charlie (the FCC) after they were fined several million $, and that was under the old 'business can do anything Republican admin a year ago. New FCC chief now in charge.
2. As a VERY long time stockholder in Verizon/Bell Atlantic/GTE, about half the FIOS plants around the US are being sold by them in an attempt to recoup costs, before the corporate slides into bankruptcy. A lot of the plants (including the ones close to me) are being sold off to Frontier Communications, which can (or maybe can't) spell 'FIOS'; some of the first systems they bought up in New England (New Hampshire and the like) quickly gained nationwide rep for extremely poor service.
3. Any 'shared' service like cable internet is going to have serious 'fair use' restrictions, that's the downside of the technology. 'Fast in Spurts' is the watchword, not a high rate of steady flow. So-called 'business class' levels are available, at 'business' prices.
4. Stop trying to gauge services by their 'peak' throughput, look closer at throughput over time. I d/l well over 1TB a month on what looks like, at first glance, a sluggish (but very cheap) DSL line of 3Mb/s. But it runs 24/7. I've had one instance in some 10 years of service where half the state was out due to a major border router failure. Not a week goes by that I don't see Comcrud internet repair trucks in my cul-do-sac beating on their lines, as my neighbors will 'pull their chain' pretty quickly if things go wrong. But I guess they got sold into 'triple-screwed' package or something. I haven't had 'cable' hooked to any house I've owned in over 25+ years (so I never have to chase 'floating grounds' and such the cableco likes to introduce!).
Last edited by Beck38; 08-18-2009 at 03:04 PM.
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Thanks for the heads-up, Danielle! I found a guide here: http://stol3n.cc/modem-hacking/sb5101/ It's primarily for Uk, but there is a lot of info in it.
It just so happens that I purchased a SB5101 not too long ago.
This could be a lot of fun!
bunny
If you're interested you might want to try this: http://www.sbhacker.net/forum/index....-101-tutorial/
It is an overal and isn't detailed but it makes notice of being secure. Hacking hacked net can be dangerous if you go out of your way to get caught. (most people do not understand how ISPs identify their userbase) So I highly recommend you read at least the first paragraph or two of that tutorial first and make sure you're not modifying a modem your ISP already ties to your user account.
Also, make sure to use a different mac address for your router when connecting to the hacked net vs the mac address used for your legit net. Your ISP can find you that way as well.
RASPBERRY RIPPLE
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Thanks again, Danielle. I have registered my modem.
I know this has been said before but i will say it again. Get a seedbox you will only use a thrid of what you are using now if you like to have a 2:1 ratio, or you could even seed back more.
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