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  Reply # 556426 10-Dec-2011 17:45 Send private message

insane:
NZCrusader: 

Still, every network only buys X amount of bandwidth, per X number of customers. 
Unless they have 1:1 and alot of hardware to share the load over multiple links I dont see how they could be certain for network pings not to rise / speeds not to slow as they claim. 


For an ISP which supplies bandwidth to many schools and universities they should have bucket loads of free capacity during the evenings and weekends. They would have a double peak so to speak, one around mid day and then again in the evenings so they should be more than fine to handle users going all out on the weekend.

In fact I wouldn't be too surprised if you saw them doing this on a near monthly basis, doesn't cost them anything more and gets people into the habit of really using their connection which will hopefully result in more data usage over the rest of the month too.



 



Depends.

Usually bandwidth pools are kept totally separate, as businesses pay alot more, and there are SLAs involved.




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  Reply # 556446 10-Dec-2011 19:07 Send private message

AviZ: ok im done, just downloaded 20 linux distros then deleted them,


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  Reply # 556486 10-Dec-2011 21:33 Send private message

Good job Snap :) and thanks for fixing my issue with my port this morning(Username and password was stuck at the exchange, within 1 hour the chorus techs had released it)

Can't believe how well its' working at the moment. Watching Youtube and downloading, might also turn on Steam and update all my games too :)




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Master Geek
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  Reply # 556491 10-Dec-2011 21:39 Send private message

not even a sniff of issues on the telstra forum, just goes to show that its not effecting them.

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  Reply # 556522 11-Dec-2011 00:28 Send private message

NZCrusader:
insane:
NZCrusader: 

Still, every network only buys X amount of bandwidth, per X number of customers. 
Unless they have 1:1 and alot of hardware to share the load over multiple links I dont see how they could be certain for network pings not to rise / speeds not to slow as they claim. 


For an ISP which supplies bandwidth to many schools and universities they should have bucket loads of free capacity during the evenings and weekends. They would have a double peak so to speak, one around mid day and then again in the evenings so they should be more than fine to handle users going all out on the weekend.

In fact I wouldn't be too surprised if you saw them doing this on a near monthly basis, doesn't cost them anything more and gets people into the habit of really using their connection which will hopefully result in more data usage over the rest of the month too.



 



Depends.

Usually bandwidth pools are kept totally separate, as businesses pay alot more, and there are SLAs involved.


Only separate to the point of different traffic management policies. Typically users without any committed rate (think Dialup, xDSL ) will still be allowed to burst above their otherwise normal allocation when excess bandwidth is available.
It would be otherwise silly to have unused bandwidth kicking around while DSL users are demanding it but limited to a hard maximum.  Of course that only applies to the ISPs controlling the aforementioned traffic management policies, and not virtual ISPs etc.

I'd be very surprised if snap did it any differently, but happy to be proven otherwise.

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Master Geek


  Reply # 556668 11-Dec-2011 18:43 Send private message

ran out of things to get.. had to go searching for more Tongue Out

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Wannabe Geek


  Reply # 556717 11-Dec-2011 21:16

Thanks for the free data weekend. Flawless service. Slightly snap'pier than usual!

gjm

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Ultimate Geek


  Reply # 556770 12-Dec-2011 07:28 Send private message

managed to get through about 19 gigs this weekend, most of that was uploading to crash plan at about 350 megs per hour. Still have a fair bit to go but my normal allowance should cover it. 

Cheers Snap, good effort. 

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Ultimate Geek


  Reply # 556773 12-Dec-2011 07:40 Send private message

Started just before 1.30pm 10/12
Downloaded 120GB

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Master Geek


  Reply # 556775 12-Dec-2011 07:46 Send private message

Thank you Snap for the free weekend... Smile

Managed to do a nice respectable 163.39 GB over the weekend....

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Master Geek


  Reply # 556782 12-Dec-2011 08:09 Send private message

Well done Snap,

I didn't notice any slowdowns, I only managed to pull down 10gb.. yes 10gb...

happy customer :)

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Ultimate Geek

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  Reply # 556790 12-Dec-2011 08:37 Send private message

I pulled in about 77GB.... running up to about 10GB per hour- slightly slower than normal. Not much though.

Other than that, No noticeable slow downs.... very good job Snap!

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Master Geek

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  Reply # 556791 12-Dec-2011 08:46 Send private message

Thanks Snap, we made the most of it!
I'd much prefer a compromise between these 2 pictures though Surprised



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Ultimate Geek

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  Reply # 556823 12-Dec-2011 10:38 Send private message

lokeynz: Thanks Snap, we made the most of it!
I'd much prefer a compromise between these 2 pictures though Surprised




Do you live in the exchange? Thats 24mbit/sec for the entire 60 hour period? 




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Master Geek

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  Reply # 556847 12-Dec-2011 11:25 Send private message

Beccara:
Do you live in the exchange? Thats 24mbit/sec for the entire 60 hour period? 


VDSL Wink




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