Telecom (was: Re: [wellylug] Fw: Comparison of Linux Distributions)

[Steve Withers]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:59, you wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> One thing that I hate about Telecom is that they charge their
> customers for traffic on JetStream.
>
> We've got JetStream at home and it can be a big problem at times
> (partly because of me and my big Net usage).
>
> I'd quite like to download Mandrake sometime but I won't though -
> *only* because, as I said before, Telecom is so greedy!
>
> Thanks for letting me vent! ;)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy Naylor.

If you get a Telstra Saturn / Paradise cable modem, they give you 1,000 
MB as part of the package. For an extra $54 / month, you get 3 GB on 
total. For an extra $30 / month you can have 2mb access instead of the 
default 512k. At 2mbps, you can download a 640MB CD image in 50 minutes 
or less. 

But this quota is international traffic.......NZ traffic is rated at 
1/10th.....so 1,000MB it is effectively 10,000MB of NZ traffic. So if 
you download your CD images of Linux from an NZ server (ftp.ifs.net.nz, 
I think) then those 640MB CDs only count as 64MB for your quota. 

Plus your phone gets cheaper....and you can have cable TV with 25 
channels. 

Telecom? Only if you can't get Telstra Saturn. 

Steve 


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