Lorenceo: 100/10? Isn't it meant to be 100/50?

SamF: Not sure if anyone's point this out already but in reading the Orcon 'Fair Use' policy for the unlimited plan the following section jumps out and bites my *rse:

If, in Orcon?s sole opinion, your usage is so heavy that it materially exceeds estimated use patterns over any month or Orcon believes that your usage of our services will adversely affect the quality of the service received by other customers, then Orcon may (in its sole discretion):

? de-prioritise your access to the network;

? apply charges to your account for the excessive and/or unreasonable element of your usage;

? suspend or restrict access to your service; or

? terminate your service.

Where reasonable, Orcon will provide you with notice before suspension, restriction or termination. If we terminate your services and you have agreed to a fixed contract term you may have to pay the applicable early termination fee.

?
So basically, without notice, Orcon can charge you for 'excessive' usage, and they're not telling people what they consider excessive....

Ya... sounds fair to me!!

lucky015: I would be inclined to expect that Unlimited would allow for data use of higher than any of the other services they have provided to consumers, Including their 1tb plan.

But honestly I'd be curious to know if my general usage of 600-900gb a month (With another ISP) would be considered against Orcon's fair usage policy if I was on their Unlimited plan.

NonprayingMantis:

The way I think about it is like this. On adsl, getting through 1TB is possible but pretty bloody hard, so a fair usage on an unlimited adsl of 1tb is probably reasonable. But on ufb, especially on the 100Mbit connection, multiTB usage is quite possible and so the fair usage limit would have to be much higher.

richms: Its not up to you to wonder what the content is or is not, just as it is not up to the ISP.

samgab: Well, my plan switches over to the "unlimited" plan starting tomorrow after midnight.
I'll be very interestedly keeping a close eye on browsing, downloading, and video streaming (youtube) speeds.

I'm in a place (Grey Lynn) where I'm at the very edge of an area which is still serviced by the Ponsonby exchange, and not a cabinet. As a result, we're getting noise injection from all of the nearby cabinets, and we're not in a cabinetised area, but not quite close enough to the exchange to get good speeds from there. So we're in a poor speed area anyway, in terms of SINAD/SNR/ physical connection speed.
We make do, we get just above the perceived cutoff point for socalled "broadband".... just over 10Mbps.
But I find that if I do a speed test to a local speed test site, the speeds are usually just over 10Mbps, but if I try the same to an international site, the speeds are more like 2 or 3 Mbps, and very jittery.
Youtube and other video streaming is a bit hit and miss, and can only be streamed in very low definition most of the time.
I am not eligible for the UFB which is rolling out in my street this Month, because I live in a shared block of townhouses which isn't getting the setup installed, and have no say in the matter.

So, I'll be interested to see if we see any change in speeds as of tomorrow with the unlimited plan.