[Snap] Another Free Data Weekend!

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ryanja

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#87205 22-Jul-2011 13:05

Snap just won the TUANZ award for the third time running, and to celebrate they're having another free data weekend. See their Twitter page for more info:

http://twitter.com/#!/SnapInternet

Of course, my ADSL2+ modem decided to die yesterday, so I'm stuck with ADSL1 until Monday. I may only be able to pull down only 100gb. :(

Ryan

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#496763 22-Jul-2011 15:09

oh great my data just rolled over for the next month,

Common sense is not as common as you think.

RalphFromSnap

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#496826 22-Jul-2011 16:59

Hi guys

Yeap, we're definitely doing this again!! Just our way of saying thanks for all the support and votes :)

Enjoy!!

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#496836 22-Jul-2011 17:17

Awesome. Just so happens that I need a 4.6GB file for uni!

richms

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#496997 23-Jul-2011 02:17

How is this all going for you guys. Shame its this weekend andnot next since my snap is only due for provisioning sometime during saturday. Will be intersting to see how much I can pull thru it in the limited time I will have it. Whats the record so far?

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#496998 23-Jul-2011 04:12

richms: .... Will be intersting to see how much I can pull thru it in the limited time I will have it. Whats the record so far?

this is not a competition!

ryanja

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#497018 23-Jul-2011 09:21

I'd heard that a few people were able to get in the 200gb range, and that there was one guy very close to the exchange that downloaded "hundreds".

richms

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#497095 23-Jul-2011 14:00

Am sitting on a sustained 6 megabit thruput here, most of that is stuff off my seedbox which would never break 1 when I was on slingshot. Once that has cleared out (which it should do at this rate) I will see how it goes on the other stuff, like clearing my massive backlog of torrents that never made it to the cache at slingshot, but so far I have to give snap 8 or 9 thumbs up out of 10.

Solid 43ms pings, which as interleaving is on at the moment should drop to about the same as slingshot gave me to my webhost (10-12 normally)

edit: graphs work on snap - slingshot would always spoof connection closed or reset for the curl command that updated pachube - http://pachube.com/feeds/3721 nice to have those working again.

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ryanja

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#497119 23-Jul-2011 15:32

I was with Slingshot for a whole day before I realised just how crap they were. I quickly switched back to Snap and am very happy to be with them.

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#497386 24-Jul-2011 18:37

Decided to visit the forum to see if there was any knowing issues with You Tube since its been slow Saturday and Sunday.. and I see this.

Didn't know about this at all this time around - poor advertising (although I know why!) and once again shows that if you don't facebook or twitter in this day you don't get any information at all.

crshbndct

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#497466 24-Jul-2011 23:58

well i took the recommendation of this forum and signed up with them.
i only just logged on 2 hours ago to pay my account for next month, and noticed the free weekend.

i have been meaning to download somethings, so i set them up and left them,

i got 4.35 GB between 10pm and 11pm

impressed.

best isp by far. how do i vote for them for the tuanz thing?

ryanja

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#497467 25-Jul-2011 00:00

It was right on their website. Perhaps they didn't want to announce it too loudly, lest every single subscriber would take advantage of it.

ryanja

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#497468 25-Jul-2011 00:02

crshbndct: well i took the recommendation of this forum and signed up with them.
i only just logged on 2 hours ago to pay my account for next month, and noticed the free weekend.

i have been meaning to download somethings, so i set them up and left them,

i got 4.35 GB between 10pm and 11pm

impressed.

best isp by far. how do i vote for them for the tuanz thing?

You'll have to wait till next year. I think Snap sent me an email about it, so be on the watch.

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#497469 25-Jul-2011 00:04

111.83 GB - not sure if that is the total or if there will be more ticking over shortly, but that would have taken about 10-12 days of free offpeak on slingshot when they were working right, and closer to a month how it works at the moment. Only a small dent in stuff to move off the seedbox, but will start that back up at 1 with the paidfor offpeak and see how it goes without the rest of the country hammering it too.

Richard rich.ms

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#497470 25-Jul-2011 00:17

I have been with Orcon for quite a number of years. I priced up I would actually be worse off financially but I suspect I calculated wrong, is there a person from Snap here I could forward my latest bill off to so that they can analyze it?

If I get 18mbit through Orcon on the cabinet, I presume I would get the same rates through Snap? Does snap offer VDSL, because that would be a big attraction! :)

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#497475 25-Jul-2011 00:43

Isnt orcon $2 a gig or something insane?

Richard rich.ms

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