Telstra ADSL vs TransACT (was Re: TransACT@CLUG this month)

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:28:58AM +1100, Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au wrote:
> This is because they are on shaky ground. If they are going to limit
> downloads to 3 Gb a month, they need to provide some kind of metering
> so that customers will know when they are about to be slugged. This month,
> their metering of my account was not updated until yesterday. This morning,
> is started reading "120 Mb" for this month. In comparison, my own stats show
> 1.2 Gb of traffic for the period. How can they charge for excess traffic if
> they cannot meter it accurately?

You do have to take into account that certain areas are counted as "free".
For example, some gaming server seems to be free and do newsgroups and some
such. This means your actual download could far exceed what you actually end
up being charged for.

> Telstra have made the 3Gb cap one of their AUP conditions. Just because they
> have not yet enforced it does not negate it. My guess is that it has not been
> enforced because no-one at Telstra will be reading usage logs unless there is
> a complaint or poor performance. That and they still have issues to resolve.

Seems odd through, for all the normally capped plans (for businesses and
such) they've been providing a usage meter for months. I can't imagine what
would be making it so difficult.

HTH,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at svana.org>
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