i'm really keen to get tivo. One question lurking in my mind is what if I went over the limit of my broadband plan. I'm currently on a Go Plan (3GB) and quite a heavy internet user. in telecom website, it says that when you used up all your bandwidth, your speed will be that of a dial up quality. anybody here knows what particular effect will that have on tivo? ie. tivo completely stops working? can it still records shows?
Hiya - the broadband plan that you are on does not impact on your TiVo usage. TiVo will use the fall capacity of your ADSL connection and will not impact on your plan.
If you max out your internet usage on your PC or laptop etc, TiVo will not be affected and will still get the full speed of the line.
Likewise, if you got nuts and download movies galore from TiVo's CASPA system, this will not impact your home usage i.e. TiVo downloads are unmetered.
When the connection is throttled, are your emails (i.e. xtra servers) slowed down? I don't recall that being the case. Surely, they don't have to throttle everything?
I would suspect if your net plan is throttled then your tivo will be slowed down, if you are concerned I would search through the fine print for anything regarding this.
If you get Tivo and find a throttled connection makes it night on useless then you are into "he said, she said" territory and you never win in this situation.
This is the official word from Telecom, just received:
No your TiVo downloads will not be slowed. Telecom has delivered a solution which means your broadband content is not impacted by which Telecom plan you?re on ? even if you?re throttled. This was important to Telecom as it means customers on any of their plans, from Go right through to Big Time do not need to worry about TiVo impacting their data cap or their data cap impacting TiVo.
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