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  From: Michael Selge <mselge@hansenyuncken.com.au>
  To  : Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
        jonathan soong <jsoong01@adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:26:52 +1030

RE: [OT] NEW DSL Option

I think they would be counting on most users NOT bothering with the Off Peak
times.
Personally I could live with that sort of plan. If there was an ISO or the
like which you really wanted you could schedule it to start at midnight.

Note: Netspace also reduce the installation fee by $100 if you have a
compatable ADSL modem

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Reid [mailto:andrew.reid@plug.cx]
> Sent: Friday, 30 November 2001 11:13
> To: jonathan soong
> Cc: Simon Hackett; linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
> Subject: 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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