Telecom's new big time plan

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#37274 9-Jul-2009 23:13

Anybody experiencing ridiculously slow downloading speed like 3~5 KBps??
I mean, the speed for viewing websites or watching videos on youtube is great (actually I was on pro plan and I really can't tell difference in speed for these uses).
But when it comes to p2p file sharing, it's even slower than dial-up.
Strangely, if i download some large file from microsoft or apple website, it gives me moderate download speed.
All the downloads were done outside of peak times of course.
Does anybody have same problem or solution to this??
I just can not wait for a month to change this XXXXing plan.

Any help is very much appreciated.

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#233350 10-Jul-2009 00:43

FYI: There is already a 17+ page thread about Big Time

Covering everything from just before Big Time went live upto now covering recent experiences with speed and performance.

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=39&topicid=36644

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#233562 10-Jul-2009 11:17

What did you expect from joining a plan which is unlimited? The catch if you didn't know is that the speed of almost everything is shaped, and you're sharing total download speed (bandwidth) with everyone else on the plan.

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#233569 10-Jul-2009 11:22

Im still on the GO LARGE plan with telecom which is unlimited downloads etc and speeds are the same as now as the fastest telecom plans i think, but of course had the same problem as what the users on the new option are experiencing :

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#233599 10-Jul-2009 11:53

I am also on Go large and P2P is useless, a friend said the Vodafone P2P's are fast, he said a movie came down in 20 minutes, also Youtube Hi defs are also very good, can anybody confirm this?

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#233604 10-Jul-2009 11:57

I can download a movie in 20mins on go large and i live in the country in hawkes bay not as fast as in town. Use Free Internet Download Manager to download with rapidshare account for fast downloads, goleech.org for anything

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#237429 21-Jul-2009 12:32

if you take on a plan like this $60 max, you will expect this. It is designed for this with Qos which filters certain sites especially p2p.
if you want to use p2p stick to the regular plans.

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#237430 21-Jul-2009 12:36

copied and pasted this from a forum b4 the plan arrived.
new unlimited plans with shaping traffic around types of files that consume a lot of bandwidth - videos, Microsoft and Apple updates and mainly things that can't be cached.... NZ$ 59.95 or if you have TotalHome package it's just NZ$10 more on existing package. Speed priority to those that aren't on unlimited plans.

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#237440 21-Jul-2009 12:53

technokiwi: copied and pasted this from a forum b4 the plan arrived.

new unlimited plans with shaping traffic around types of files that consume a lot of bandwidth - videos, Microsoft and Apple updates and mainly things that can't be cached.... NZ$ 59.95 or if you have TotalHome package it's just NZ$10 more on existing package. Speed priority to those that aren't on unlimited plans.

Old news.

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#237445 21-Jul-2009 12:57

I realise this is old news, but do they?.
thats my point. It has been fully explained that they would kill the speeds on p2p. all good for the rest of us that just to use the internet for browsing and email etc.
there are full speed plans for people wanting to use p2p

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#237447 21-Jul-2009 12:59

The problem is that regardless of warnings people have wrong expectations. It's unlimited shapped data, but people still want unlimited full speed data all the time...

As for being "old news" I am referring to the fact this has been already discussed many times here already - but yes, people still have those wrong expectations.

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#237455 21-Jul-2009 13:04

cool
thanks for the reply.
Yes agree, it has been discussed and will move on. I just want to try it out for providing a wifi hotspot as having a fixed amount is perfect and blocking services like p2p too.
but not quite sure if it is wise without fully waiting for responses from others about it or testing it further.
i offer free wi-fi daily to people with more and more users daily. if i could keep it to $60 a month this would be ideal.
Is this your full time job on this forum?

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#237487 21-Jul-2009 14:06

I'm on Go Large, most of the time it's very nice but sometimes the speeds go to custard

But overall, for the amount of data I use it's a very suitable plan.

I'm thinking about switching to Big Time so I can get full-speed upload instead of 128kbps limited, but if the download speeds are worse....

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#237603 21-Jul-2009 17:46

Have moved from Xnet to Big Time for more than a week,the speed fast for me all the time,Download speed reach around 600KB/s to 700KB/s ,Watching youtube without any problem....Downloaded from 6 to 8hours/day can get about 15GB if I leave it to download 24hour I can reach 40GB/24hour for sure...Hope it will last forever!

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#237610 21-Jul-2009 18:01

Hmm Strange, My Usage page dosen't show up tho I know I've used about 60gb of Data

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#237615 21-Jul-2009 18:17

p2p speeds for me have not really changed moving from Go Large to Big Time. (depending on the file, peers, seeds etc can be 500Kb/s or 13Kb/s) and I think thats to be expected.
If you think they were not shaping the traffic on Go Large in my own experience at least, your wrong.
IMOHO I think they used the Go Large users to help sort out their traffic shaping.

When I moved to Big Time my ADSL download speed went from a standard of 3-4 mb/s to 7-8.5mb/s. (Going by the routers connection stats) I thought it strange my ADSL connection speed would change when both plans were meant to be unlimited on the download side, BUT that's what happened.
I get 6 meg to Aussie as a general rule of thumb and 1-2 to the states.
I'm very happy with my speed, YouTube was a problem for me on first moving over to Big Time, but now it works really well so I just view that as Telecom getting their caching servers sorted out properly.

I've done live streaming of stuff like Twit without issue.

I'm going to queue up 16 gig of Microsoft ISO's (from microsoft), see how it performs overnight and during the day with me browsing, but after just about 2 weeks I have no complaints so far.