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crewcabconnection Being Sid James

1,922 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#441877
Just vundered....as i get to the end of the month on my Big Pond Unlimited/128k plan ... it's running like a dog ... maybe it's the 12000 meg I've sucked down....used to get everything in an instant, now running slowwwww. It aint the comp, got 3 all on the same router, mac and pc.

Tried to call the 10 year olds that work the help desk, but they swear all is cool...

Anyone out there on Big Pond cable who has similar experience??? I figured unlimited was just that.

Cheers
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sax Insano Dub Head

846 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#441879
Unlimited means limited. If youve done your 12 gig then yes you are being throttled down.
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bajachris88 The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 6

6,661 posts · joined Apr 2005 ·

#441880
join the club mate, its crap. Got the unlimited broadband, its shes been really laggy the last couple of days. Today though its a lil' better than yesterday. Not the 1st time its had a couple day period of sluggin' around.

It usually eases up in a couple of days (from memory of other occurances) Sux ay. Felt like i was back to unreliable dial up yesterday.
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MISS VDUB Administrator Mrs KOMBIBOB

2,565 posts · joined Sep 2005 ·

#441882
We were with Bigpond, but ditched em as its utter crap! Now with Eftel and extremely happy!
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crewcabconnection Being Sid James

1,922 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·

#441892
thanks, cable has been great over the last 4/5 years, and never had this before, looks like some pricks introduced a new policy - I didn't vote for it, so guess I'll be movin' on.
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lobus Wolfsburg Wizard

618 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#441896
MISS_VDUB wrote:We were with Bigpond, but ditched em as its utter crap! Now with Eftel and extremely happy!
who the ef is eftel?

MISS VDUB Administrator Mrs KOMBIBOB

2,565 posts · joined Sep 2005 ·

#441921
lobus wrote:
MISS_VDUB wrote:We were with Bigpond, but ditched em as its utter crap! Now with Eftel and extremely happy!
who the ef is eftel?
Another service provider...
1963 Single Cab Ute: "El Concreto"
1962 Baja Beetle: "Peanut"
1968 Porsche 912 SWB: "Pip"
1972 Kombi Snail: "The Snail"
2012 Skoda Octavia Scout: "Scout"
2016 Scirocco R: "Rocco"

haugmichael Seriously Crusin Dubber

146 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#442006
Don't forget that you you also have to take into account the amount of information you upload with BP as they calculate this as part of of your download.

e.g.: if say you upload a 500meg file to www.megaupload.com to store a file then that 500 meg is classed by BP as a download as well. BP are the only ISP that charges for uploading as well as downloading.

hipichic Insano Dub Head

763 posts · joined Jun 2005 ·

#442046
510 for me....yay!
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Starbug rustbag

2,408 posts · joined Feb 2003 ·

#442061
is your server box a windows machine? have you ipconfig /all ??
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KOM123 Smiling Assassin

1,164 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#442063
From the Bigpond website in regard to their "Unlimited Cable" plan:

Speeds will be slowed to 64kbps after 10GB