australianit.news.com.au— Broadband customers of Australia's largest ISPs can use peer-to-peer file-sharing services such as BitTorrent and Kazaa without being throttled by their ISP, at least for now.
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I really love the term "unlimited" given out for bandwidth. It's unlimited until you reach your limit at which point you pay a few extra per whatever over your limit of your unlimited bandwidth.
"To determine if you are being throttled per above ...google (or digg) for a free broadband line tester (some work better than others)."It would be pretty damn obvious if you were. First, download speeds would be back to around dialup speeds. The throttling is DRAMATIC. Secondly, the ISPs over here let you know (either by email or by looking at their online control panel)."I forgot to mention here in australia all traffic counts toward your total download usage as well that means email/spam etc. is part of your overall usage (it adds up)."Same as in most other countries, I think you'll find. Email/spam = traffic. Unless you don't download the spam at all - like use a webmail service that filters it out. Unfortunately, none of the ISPs in Australia offer spam filtering at the server level (many flag spam as spam, but you still have to download it), at least to my knowledge."Surely competition should be dictating that- the free market. You bottleneck my bandwidth? Fine! I'll switch ISP!"Telstra, the dominant ISP over here owned in part by the government, wholesales service to most other ISPs. Most ISPs are regulated by Telstra, and there are no ISPs offering truly "unlimited" downloads at a reasonable price anymore. There's nobody to switch to."True BitTorrent =! P2P"I fail to see how this is true. Using BT, you download off other peers. This to me is peer-to-peer. Care to explain your point?That said, iiNet's ADSL2+ works nicely for me. 40GB traffic per month is more than enough, though I guess if I went onto an unlimited plan like all you Americans seem to be on then I would download more. :P
mrinternetFeb 21, 2006
To determine if you are being throttled per above ...google (or digg) for a free broadband line tester (some work better than others). <a class="user" href="http://www.google.com.au/search?q=test+my+broadband+speed&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official">http://www.google.com.au/search?q=test+my+broadband+speed&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official</a>You can also use something like looking glass to look at connectivity to your ip address (PC) from any country in the world. <a class="user" href="http://www.traceroute.org.">http://www.traceroute.org.</a>
jlgosseFeb 21, 2006
very misleading titlebig three (in australia), that's nothing
wantednzFeb 21, 2006
True BitTorrent =! P2P
Closed AccountFeb 21, 2006
All the posters in this thread do, RPGaction.
mikeonFeb 21, 2006
I really love the term "unlimited" given out for bandwidth. It's unlimited until you reach your limit at which point you pay a few extra per whatever over your limit of your unlimited bandwidth.
thetronFeb 21, 2006
The QLD PIPE bittorrent was quite a bit when Qtorrent was running. So i've heard
splintaxFeb 21, 2006
"To determine if you are being throttled per above ...google (or digg) for a free broadband line tester (some work better than others)."It would be pretty damn obvious if you were. First, download speeds would be back to around dialup speeds. The throttling is DRAMATIC. Secondly, the ISPs over here let you know (either by email or by looking at their online control panel)."I forgot to mention here in australia all traffic counts toward your total download usage as well that means email/spam etc. is part of your overall usage (it adds up)."Same as in most other countries, I think you'll find. Email/spam = traffic. Unless you don't download the spam at all - like use a webmail service that filters it out. Unfortunately, none of the ISPs in Australia offer spam filtering at the server level (many flag spam as spam, but you still have to download it), at least to my knowledge."Surely competition should be dictating that- the free market. You bottleneck my bandwidth? Fine! I'll switch ISP!"Telstra, the dominant ISP over here owned in part by the government, wholesales service to most other ISPs. Most ISPs are regulated by Telstra, and there are no ISPs offering truly "unlimited" downloads at a reasonable price anymore. There's nobody to switch to."True BitTorrent =! P2P"I fail to see how this is true. Using BT, you download off other peers. This to me is peer-to-peer. Care to explain your point?That said, iiNet's ADSL2+ works nicely for me. 40GB traffic per month is more than enough, though I guess if I went onto an unlimited plan like all you Americans seem to be on then I would download more. :P