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Adrian
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« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2010, 07:50:37 pm » |
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Well MAX is UNMETERED, but calling any Internet service Unlimited is risky, but has a fair usage of 20,30,40 or 50GB (MAX Option 1,2,3 or 4 respectively) between the hours of 6PM-midnight. I guess there isn't a limit on how much you can download/transfer, but may slowed down by traffic shaping in busy periods, say 6PM-midnight. So if you are on MAX Option 1 and use 20GB in the hours 6PM-midnight, then they reserve the right to throttle your connection (inside these hours I think). Outside these hours you can download as much as you like...
In the ISP industry it seems Unlimited has been replaced with Unmetered, at least for ISPs who use traffic management - download/transfer as much as you like, subject to Fair Usage/Acceptable Usage Policies.
ADSL2+ is marketed as been faster (in most cases), more reliable and with a fixed usage allowance to use any time, except for the Pro packages which are unmtered between midnight-8am. When the service is running normally there is less traffic management and it runs faster than the MAX packages throughout the peak hours.
A month or so ago, when they applied the infrastructure tweaks to allow the ADSL2+ services to perform better, HTTP and other downloads (except P2P/Usenet) were line speed, flat out most of the time.
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