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#125105 20-Apr-2008 17:01

manhinli: They don't actually state an upload speed...

They told me 128k when I emailed them.

manhinli: Possible ways to restrict an "unlimited" plan like this would be:
to throw everyone on one server or pool (conjuring up Go Large thoughts...)
watch over usage and recommend a "better" plan when a user goes over a "excessive" amount
"manage" specific types of data (like P2P)
let massive traffic flow decimate speeds (stupid though)
Ugh... "unlimited" will never be unlimited in the purest sense.

"The traffic is indeed unlimited in all regards; apart from the 128k 7am - 7pm limit, your connection will otherwise not be slowed down or traffic shaped in any way."

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#125117 20-Apr-2008 17:47

Detruire:
manhinli: They don't actually state an upload speed...

They told me 128k when I emailed them.

I mean the website doesn't say.

Detruire: "The traffic is indeed unlimited in all regards; apart from the 128k 7am - 7pm limit, your connection will otherwise not be slowed down or traffic shaped in any way."

We shall see how "unlimited" it is in the near future...

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#125124 20-Apr-2008 18:08

manhinli: I mean the website doesn't say.

I was merely pointing out that it definitely is officially 128k

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brucie44

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#127434 30-Apr-2008 23:49

Talked to Snap today.
They have peak daytime commercial usage as discussed. Also plan to limit the amount of "Nightowl" users.
So finding it hard to resist an "all-you-can-eat" I joined.
Sadly have to leave Xnet (the only time I have ever felt regret when leaving an ISP).
I will let you know what it is like.

Regards, Bruce.

Damager

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#127674 1-May-2008 18:49

Well...

Ive taken the plunge and ditched Ihug and registered for Night Owl late last night and checked my voicemail late afternoon to confirm my account had been set up as of tonight so woo hoo.

Will let you guys know how it goes

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#127684 1-May-2008 19:30

Joined.
Night owl package.
Connected next day. Set up web page, and other help. Excellent. average wait = 5 minutes.
786 kb/s to LA at 7.25 pm.
for a budget price I am happy. As download from usenet groups.

regards Bruce.

Trunks2

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#128231 3-May-2008 17:33

Hi,

so hows it going on the Snap night owl plan? do they shape p2p? are the speeds good/consistent? whats your ping like.

im moving house in a week and need to sort out what isp im gonna go for, and i think the snap night owl plan is just right for me!

Thanks.

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brucie44

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#128249 3-May-2008 18:12

Trunks2: Hi,

so hows it going on the Snap night owl plan? do they shape p2p? are the speeds good/consistent? whats your ping like.

.

been there 3 days. 16kBytes is slow in the day. At 7 pm 100 KBytes increasing to 300 KBytes at Midnight.
These speeds are to a stateside news server.

P2P do not know, phone and ask, got some good english speaking techs on help desk. I phoned them 3 times re setting up web pages etc. Average wait 3-5 minutes. And excellent tech help.

regards Bruce.

Detruire

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#128257 3-May-2008 18:46

I was told they don't shape in any way when I emailed a month ago.

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Damager

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#128317 4-May-2008 02:00

speeds are pretty good, still get my usual 450 kB/s from 7pm to 7am from rapidshare servers.. i normally set my downloads for the 3am to 5am :)

not a fan of p2p so not affected by shaping . intl surfing isnt too bad during the usual nz peak of 6pm to 10pm.

bad buzz though.. some recent heavy rain has kak'd the local cabinet and added noise to my line and killed my usual modem synch speed which is normally 5000 kb/s to 1500 kb/s, logged fault and hoping transfield techies visit tomorrow.. i mean today

brucie44

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#128358 4-May-2008 10:35

I am getting like a vampire .. waiting for darkness (full speed).
:)

kobiak

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#128502 4-May-2008 23:52

Hi,

I've noticed some new users recently signed up to snap's night owl plan...

Could you guess please comment on international speed issues if any in [url=http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?ForumId=49&TopicId=21637]that topic[/url]

Thanks in advance.

helping others at evgenyk.nz

Ragnor

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#129001 7-May-2008 00:24

So time to bring out the mspaint skills again...

How can this be a viable business model.. ones that's going to give good performance to users?

Do they have some significant amount of day time non peak traffic that makes it economically viable for them to maintain a green line somewhere near the peak of the red line?

Green line: ISP's international bandwidth to the US
Red line: Customer's demand for bandwidth to the US

Ragnor

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#129002 7-May-2008 00:35

To answer my own question Snap apparently provides internet access for the University of Canterbury, apparently they have something like 40,000 users. So it makes sense they would have enough traffic outside of 6pm-12 to maintain a much higher green line.

Interesting.

kobiak

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#129064 7-May-2008 11:04

brucie44, how is your international speed with snap? during the FS time.
and to what servers.

thanks.

helping others at evgenyk.nz

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