Realistically, 1TB of data is probably more than any one person could ever consume in a month. But all the 1TB plans we’ve heard about so far are actually more like two 500GB plans stapled together depending on when you’re using the net. But not with Internode’s new 1TB plan, which does away with the pesky notion of “off-peak”.
Internode’s 1TB plan will set you back $150 a month when bundled with a landline telephone service, but the ISP has also updated its other plans, including doubling data for its Easy Broadband plan from 50GB to 100GB for $50 a month, plus added 200GB and 300GB plans for $70 and $90 respectively (when bundled with a landline).
Unfortunately, both uploads and downloads are counted as part of the quota of these plans, although that’s something that is quickly becoming the norm with the growing data allowances. The plans will be available next week.
matt
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 11:36 AMno… see, uploads being charged as well as downloads would be fine if they TREATED uploads like downloads: i.e: they let you run all the servers you want on them, and they give you an upload speed that isn’t like 1/10th of what your download speed is.
simply increasing the amount of data you get doesn’t make it ok.
Ian
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 1:23 PM@matt – that’s a limitation of ADSL – not a restriction put in place by the ISP’s.
ADSL is limited due to the frequency allocation of the phone line. Check here for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_Digital_Subscriber_Line
For faster uploads, you want SHDSL. It allocates more frequency to the upload portion (overlapping into the voice frequency) – therefore increasing the bandwidth.
Cheers
matt
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 4:26 PMthats cool, I don’t really know that much about ADSL, I was speaking mainly from my experience with optus cable.
Travis
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 12:16 PMAlso, this is Internode, and they are quite happy to let you run servers on your ADSL connections.
GiantGuineaPig
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 2:09 PMSo you’re actually talking about a different company and a different technology, still at least you had your say :)
There’s too many Node plans now!
Normandy
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 11:57 AMpity about us poor sods on Telstra ports, WE GET NOTHING ! :(
Quabbe
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 11:58 AMI’m on the TPG 200gb (any time, no peak/off-peak), 4000kb/s shaped plan (cost $70) and my usage for this month is 1.3 Tb of PURE DOWNLOAD, with 6 days left on the plan!!!
These 1Tb plans are a RIP OFF when compared to what you can get on othe plans… It’s just a marketing ploy because it has a bigger number on it… Don’t be fooled!!
attila
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 2:20 PMHow does someone download 1.3TB in a month? A genuine question.
Normandy
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 4:21 PMrun xbox movies, foxtel over xbox, download itunes movies, that will eat up 100gbs of month easy
matt
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 4:33 PMyeah, it is actually…
you would have to be doing something like watching HD encodes 10 hrs a day, every day of the month…
not to mention the $100 a month in HDDs to store it all.
Cameron
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 5:15 PMwget -r -H -p -e robots=off -U mozilla http://www.google.com.au/#&q=everything
attila
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 6:10 PM40 gig a day, every single day?
Quabbe
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 8:53 PMWork, mostly… I make computer games and work from home frequently, that alone accounts for about 500gb/m.. Then there’s steam and other full game downloads, demos on all of my consoles, watching movies and what not online…
It’s actually quite easy when your life involves a lot of technology..
Quabbe
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 11:05 PM@attila
Yes, I do average about 45Gb/day, everyday. This isn’t me trying to convince others of what I download (seriously, who cares?), it’s me trying to convince others that there are better deals out there, for much less. The size of the quota is not the most important issue, it’s the shaping speed.
Case in point, one of the guys I work with is on a 400gb/m plan (uploads + downloads counted) and has a similar circumstance as myself when it comes to work. He’s always complaining about running out of quota halfway through the month and being reduced to 256kbps. I get shaped a *slight* bit earlier (because only downloads are counted on my plan), this is true, but I get shaped to 4000kbps… I honestly don’t even notice the drop.
Basically, saying you’ve got one of these new 1Tb quotas is nothing short of “I have a bigger e-peen than you!”. Use your *other* head, and you’ll realise you can get a lot more, for less.
attila
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:31 AM@Quabbe – cheers. I wasn’t suggesting you should have to convince us of anything, I was just curious how someone could get through so much data each day. Question = answered :-)
veddermandan
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 11:45 AMThere is always something to download. TV series, Movies, Games and when you cant think of anything else to download you use the rest on porn. I almost always have a large torrent downloading. Just finished a 30 gig Xbox live torrent.
For example last night i downloaded 2 Xbox 360 games, 3 PSP games, a Stallone movie pack, 5 new movies, than had porn to continue downloading until i get home tonight. On average i download 40 gigs a day.
My computer runs 24/7 365 and is contstantly downloading. I have just started downloading Bluray movies as well and some are up to 12 gig to download. So soon every movie will be 10 gigs to download instead of 700mbs.
Daniel
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 12:50 PMI know what you’re trying to say, bit I still think you should remove the word ‘ever’ from your first sentence. Otherwise that’s gonna look pretty silly in about 10 years time.
Dave
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 12:55 PMTo those complaining about the slower upload speeds, time to consider the A in ADSL: _asymmetric_ digital subscriber line.
The system is designed to have less up capacity than down. If you want the same both ways then you need to spring for SDSL (yes, symmetric DSL) but you can’t run voice on on.
It is not a big conspiracy by the suppliers. If you want that, go to NZ where 128kbps upload speeds are still common.
pdf
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 2:04 PMCan’t run voice on SHDSL? Of course you can: VOIP.
Bobbobboy
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 1:37 PMWhat they would love is to get rid of heavy uploading users. This is just a way to get the market to move away from upload quota free plans.
“Yes we’ll give you a terrabyte” for most people this seems reasonable. But they are also saying “Yes we are nowing making uploads your problem and not ours” For most people this means having to ensure you dont leave bittorrent seeding.
X
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 5:19 PMIf you are using 900GB to download and are complaining about the 100GB of uploads being counted, then I think you have bigger issues to worry about than. I got a 120GB plan a few months ago (peak and off peak) and for the first couple of months I was downloading pretty much everything I could. TV Series for friends, Movies, now I use it for general use and the occaisional download of a game/movie/tv series plus watching a few shows a week online, and don’t even get close.
Bobbobboy
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 12:44 PMah no. If you’ve finished downloading and you leave your torrents seeding you may end up with a 100gigs of downloads with 900gigs of uploads before you months out.
Tim
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 2:17 PMTheoretically, if you had a 1mbit upload, you could only transfer a max of 250GB/month. And that is assuming people were downloading off you 24/7 at full speed.
Christopher
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:28 PMI’m in the exact same boat as you. Got 120GB, tried to use it all the first few months, but for my needs, it just ends up proving to be too much. Not that I’d want to go lower, but until I get really into something bandwidth intensive, it should last me.
Tweak
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 3:51 PMSo for $100 you can have 300gb or for an extra $10 you can have double that….
whos doing maths in that place
Quabbe
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 11:14 PMFor $70 I can get 1.3 Tb/m… Math is not involved in the equations at all..
Jonathan Row
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 4:59 PMHonestly, I just consider metering uploads to be a natural evolution based on the way we use the internet. 6 or 7 years ago, most of what the average person was using would have been almost entirely downloads. Most uploads would have been page requests and sending IM and email. Fast forward to today, and we’re uploading photos to Facebook, uploading HD videos to YouTube, backing up all our data to ‘the cloud’ with sites like dropbox and, of course, filesharing with bittorrent etc. I think that the amount that we now upload compared to the earlier days of the internet has increased substantially, and as such is no longer something the ISPs should have to throw in for free, but should be counted as usage just like anything else. It’s not free for them either.
Normandy
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 6:06 PMstore it all? streaming, hello!?
Quabbe
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 11:18 PMSadly I do store most of what I download (that’s worth keeping anyway), thought that could have something to do with my house having 12 Tb of storage when you look at all four computers and all external drives.
Like I said in an earlier post, my occupation dictates that I have above normal computer circumstance… Hell, I’m typing this on a 3 Metre HD projector in my lounge room :) (yeah, I’m flexin’ my e-peen now)