Thread: Woe is me - too much choice? Too much quantity over quality perhaps!?

# I have about as much experience as you...lol
I'll ask my wife to look out for any clubs when she takes my son to the Geelong Show during the school holidays as if they are about they may have a display at the show.
Theres is just never enough download capacity is there?
I'm churning to exetel...12 gig + 60 gig off peak for $45 at 1500...
Catch up sounds good.

I have 25GB (+ 25GB off peak) at NCABLE for $100, but its at 32mbs download / 2mb upload.

When you said originally you had used up your 25 gig with ncable I thought Ooooh cable that would be nice and fast..........Then I thought.... it must cost$$ and it does....
Do you any idea if Lara will ever get an optus or other than telstra adsl2 dslam?
I'd so love to go naked....

Originally Posted by rileyp

When you said originally you had used up your 25 gig with ncable I thought Ooooh cable that would be nice and fast..........Then I thought.... it must cost$$ and it does....
Do you any idea if Lara will ever get an optus or other than telstra adsl2 dslam?
I'd so love to go naked....

In reality its a matter of perspective - you pay $45 for 12 gb + off peak. I pay $100 for double your peak capacity and $100 is not much more than double $45. I get an off peak 25 gb. But on both 1500 and 32mbs you will not find yourself being able to get any where near your offpeak max in any month, the most I can get is maybe 10gb of offpeak, and thats with bittorrent running flat chat between 1am and 7am (ncable off peak times). I guess though your offpeak times might be 11pm to 7am or something more reasonable as was TPG when I was on it!

But when you compare it to ADSL2+ TPG in the city, NCABLE is a f***ing ripoff!

Cheers
Jason

off peak is from 2am to midday
I am only churning to exetel on the 28th of this month.

Im currently with PT on 512/10g $40 plan which just is not enough now I need to update the chd files for mame.....120 gig
Do ncable throttle p2p traffic?
I know exetel do but it was said on whirlpool if your on 512 and you have 60 g available off peak you would only get ~40 gig in the off peak period running every night of the month
so I thought with a speed increase of ~3x Id get my 60g easy but perhaps not?
Things said on whirlpool need to taken with a grain of salt dont they!
What sort of speeds do you get off peak on a very popular torrent with ncable?

Originally Posted by rileyp

off peak is from 2am to midday
I am only churning to exetel on the 28th of this month.

Im currently with PT on 512/10g $40 plan which just is not enough now I need to update the chd files for mame.....120 gig
Do ncable throttle p2p traffic?
I know exetel do but it was said on whirlpool if your on 512 and you have 60 g available off peak you would only get ~40 gig in the off peak period running every night of the month
so I thought with a speed increase of ~3x Id get my 60g easy but perhaps not?
Things said on whirlpool need to taken with a grain of salt dont they!
What sort of speeds do you get off peak on a very popular torrent with ncable?

Thats awesome off peak - bloody NCABLE, the offpeak capacity is almost useless, it is slower because I think everyone on ncable jumps on between those times to do their bittorents.

I think with such a long off peak period you would actually get a lot of downloads completed, maybe even your whole 60gb.

Edit: I have not noticed any throttling of P2P and we get 2mb upload which is very good for increasing your bittorent score. I run a bittorent client on my NAS drive so I can leave it running 24x7 - and I have remote HTTP access to add new torrents - not that I have used it much lately, as I am watching much less TV now that I am getting more serious about wood work!

Cheers
Jason

On a different tack, but Pell's point about downloading information like mad set me thinking.

The old web really is a big deal for this kind of thing, isn't it? Go back even 30 years and the only way to learn (high level skills) was from books bought or borrowed, or through apprenticeship to a capable person, or the hard way.

Go back before that and you had to pay to be apprenticed for a gazillion years, and then join a guild and learn some funny handshakes if you wanted to get at the paydirt. Plus a single tool cost month's wages.

At least now it's pretty much down to personal aptitude and dedication. And in a strange way too the ability to hand make high quality stuff is (in these day of instant gratification and 'efficiencies') far more valuable than it was not so long ago when the best you could hope for (in the days of tight social stratification) was to earn a meager hourly or piece rate ..

Jason
Are you a member of "http://forums.overclockers.com.au/index.php"

Originally Posted by rileyp

Jason
Are you a member of "http://forums.overclockers.com.au/index.php"

No, never been to that site before I clicked on your link!