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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : jonathan soong <jsoong01@adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:12:57 +1030

Re: [OT] NEW DSL Option

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:30:58AM +1030, jonathan soong wrote:

> Home Broadband 512
> Once off connection fee $239 (introductory offer for Dec 01/Jan
> 02—normally $388
> Extended Metro: $99.95/Month (Within 165km of State Capital GPO)
> 	 MB Allowance		 Excess charges/Mb          Speed
>     3000Mb Peak/Month           16.9 cents/Mb–Peak	     512k/128k
>   7000Mb Off-peak/Month       10 cents/Mb–Off-Peak

This "Peak" and "Off-peak" stuff seems like crap. Since when does it
cost more to use the Internet at a particular time of the day? I know
I don't.

Netspace also have this nasty little clause at the bottom of their
Home ADSL Pricing page[1]. It reads "Minimum contract is for 12 months
from activation date".

> that is 10gig/month is it??????? for 100$, only downside is no static ip
> but oh well?

That's $0.01 / MB. I just spoke to Netspace, and according to the guy
on the other end of the phone, you're limited to 3GB during their
"peak" time and 7GB during "off-peak". That means that you could
download a total of 10GB during a month without paying any excess
download charges.

Note that the "MB Allowance" is for downloads /and/ uploads.

Seems a little too good to be true. Telstra charge a lot more than
$0.01 / MB for the frame/ATM tail. As Mark Newton pointed out to me,
they may be using someone other than Telstra (RequestDSL, for
example). Still, there cannot be much in it for them.

   - andrew

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