One terabyte is a lot of data. 1000 gigs. It sounds absolutely huge, which is probably what iiNet are banking on to help them to get people to sign up. But in a world with unlimited plans from TPG, AAPT and Exetel, is a terabyte really that big a deal?
The new plans include both uploads and downloads as part of the included quota, and the terabyte is actually split up over both peak and off-peak times (500GB for each). The 1TB quota is only available for the highest ADSL1 and ADSL2+ bundled plans, costing $120 and $100 respectively, although there’s a data increase across the entire range of iiNet plans. That said, only customers on Naked plans will automatically get the data upgrade – everyone else will have to adjust their plan manually.
The new plans will become available on Friday, August 20.
[iiNet (PDF)]
Pointyweasel
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 3:19 PMWith the amount of Freezone stuff they have already I don’t need more quota, I need the NBN to get me out of this RIM based snail speed ADSL1 hell!
Daz
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 4:10 PMDitto for me too!! Please vote Labor this weekend. We (I) need NBN. 1.5Mbps divided amongst 2 adults and 2 teenagers just doesn’t add up :(
Stefan Chochowski
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 4:12 PMI’ve had cable for over a decade and been getting around 16Mbps.
Honestly I don’t need mine to go any faster otherwise I could use it up way to quickly, yes even 1TB.
I pity you who have to suffer with ADSL. Cable should be standard everywhere now.
adam
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 9:54 PMI’ve been syncing at around 19mbps for about 5 years now with iinet’s ADSL2+, so please keep your pity to yourself :)
16 is really nothing to brag about.
oh and my upload is 1mbit.
trk
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 11:54 PMIs it a pissing contest yet?
http://www.filedump.net/dumped/sync1282225916.png
Still looking forward to the NBN though. Whats the point of saying ‘copper is good enough’ when its about as good as its ever going to get? Putting in fiber might be crazy overkill at the moment, but at least it should be able to provide a long-term solution as the line itself is capable of carrying HUGE amounts of data… and its alot easier to upgrade the equipment at each end of the line instead of the line itself.
Kalem
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 4:30 PMOh it appears your slow speeds suffer when I download the whole internet in between streamed episodes of Seinfeld.
http://www.filedump.net/dumped/12669018722121282285760.jpg
Chumplunt
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 3:35 PMNote though that every plan now counts uploads as well. So for those existing, um, “heavy” users these plans might not be so grand.
Chumplunt
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 3:36 PMuh-duh. Or i could read the article.
matt
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 3:59 PMwell, this is the type of quota we will need to take advantage of the NBN.
Kronic
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 4:11 PMNice!
if you read the statement from iiNet they quote
“for example, you could stream abc’s iView 24/7 and still have half your quota left for other uses”
Um….. iview isnt counted on your quota?? or is it now??
sounds very dodgy to me mr. iiBorg……
Ben
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 8:26 PMiView is freezone for iiNet, but for all ISP’s even if iView is unmetered the 24/7 news is not unmetered for anyone.
Jonathan Row
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 10:20 PMActually it says
“Alternatively, customers could stream the ABC’s new 24 hours news channel, ABC24, continually for the entire month and still have more than half their quota remaining for other uses.”
It’s specifically referring to ABC News 24, the one part of iView that isn’t included in your freezone, as it’s a continual live stream from the ABC, and not a show that iiNet can cache on their servers first.
Phil
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 4:16 PMJust need faster upload speeds. Not so fussed about data quota.
poedgirl
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 4:39 PMMine is going from 175gb to 1tb, I’m more than happy with the change!
Gino Rodrigo
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 5:09 PMAm I to gather from the article, the table and the accompanying PDF that I am about to get a data quota six times larger than my current plan for no extra cost? (Naked DSL Home-3).
I’m about to nerdgasm.
Chris M
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 5:34 PM“is a terabyte really that big a deal?” Uhm, let me think about that for a second. Are you bloody serious? Yes it’s a big deal. Who wants an unlimited plan when you get shaped for using above whatever their pre-determined “fair use” quota is set for? Unlimited my ass. 1tb plan sounds awesome. Then again, what do I care, I don’t even pay for mine and don’t even have a cap anyway :)
red
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 5:58 PMI wish Telstra had something like this. Lol. I’ll never change down to ADSL, but I do like their plans on usage.
Unfazed
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 6:25 PMAs if this is that great, TPG is doing an adsl2+ unlimited plan for $75, why would you pay $119 for 1tb? thats sounds like bad math to me…
Kroo
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 8:26 PMThis is great, go iiNet. Telstra offers 50GB for $50, pfff. I have Optus 120GB for $50. Telstra suck big time and we’re giving them the NBN. To those jumping up and down about NBN, has anyone explained the cost to you people? There not talking about user cost through the election campaign. Connection to the node will cost an estimated $1000 +. You’d be paying ten times as much as you do now per month and don’t forget, labor wants to give the rollout to Telstra. Great to have super fast broadband, if you can afford it. And the rollout is likely to take ten years. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true… yada yada yada. Don’t believe everything you’re being told about NBN. Read the fine print.
Justin
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 9:07 PMbiggest disadvantage of living in the country, dial up or satellite. dial up simply isn’t an option and satellite charge ridiculous prices for any decent data limit so we have 500MB peak and 20GB off. we can get wireless which is what I’m using but its up and down and 5GB limit. i would be happy with ADSL at its most basic.
Lachlan
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 9:18 PMJust to let everyone know these are the new plans. You most likely won’t get them if you are already locked into iiNet for 2 years or whatever.
I have Naked ADSL home 6. Which isn’t shown on the new graph, I get 50 on peak, 50 off peak for $80 a month.
But I’m going to call up and complain about the amount of times it drops out and hopefully will be able to upgrade to Naked ADSL 2 and get 400GB.
:)
Andrew
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 9:57 PMSo iPrimus have already trumped them..
1111Gb for $99.95
http://www.iprimus.com.au/PrimusWeb/HomeSolutions/BroadbandInternet/
Ken Oath
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 1:27 PMIn the space of 10 years we’ve gone from 56 kbps to speeds of over 400 times that with ADSL2+. I was on the pilot in Perth with uncaped ADSL1 (housemate was a staffer) and there wasn’t a dicernable difference from having 1.5 Mbps. Going to ADSL2+ only made that more apparent even whilst people were updating their quips with their sync speeds and bragging rights. How much different is it going to be having 100 Mbps or higher? Especially if your provider doesn’t have sufficient international links. Even now with the NBN in Tassie most subcribers aren’t opting in meaning the next person to move into that house has to fork out $2k to get fibre connected, not to mention the ever present problem of customers in rural areas getting a decent connection.
Phil
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 12:52 PMIf my ADSL 2+ speeds don’t improve over the 2.8mbps I currently see, and have seen since iiNet introduced it I’m seriously thinking to try out Vivid wireless to get a better speed (and don’t they have an Unlimited plan, so why it 1Tb so good?). 4km of copper is not good. WIMAX might be the way to go in the mid term…