Comments on: BigPond: Australia’s Worst ISP?

By: stevo

stevo — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:04:07 +0000

bigpond is a f#@ing ripoff i have a 1500/256 25gig plan 4 24mths locked in and i can never get more than 150kbps using u torrent. 2 top it of when slowed i only get 7-9 kbps f#@ing bullsh#t. plus all uploads count towards my monthly usage anyone considering bigpond go elsewere there is no way im going to pay 0.15c per mb on there other plans maybe 15c 4 500mb but that will never happen bigpond can go to hell cant wait till my contract runs out.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:41:26 +0000

I too have been hit.

Though it would be my fault mostly. My dad changed plan from a slow down to a charge for passing the limit. (didnt know this, i thought it would just slow down).

%80 limit warning came, still thought it would just slow down.

15 Gig and $2321 later……..

I will be mowing the front lawn for free for a very very long time.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:20:56 +0000

I got hit by them,
My friend set up the plan and he doesn’t live here anymore, I downloaded around 10gig of stuff from torrents over the month and the limit is 25GB, of course the uploads from the torrents doubled this and then it went into over time, 15 cents per meg,
My upcoming bill is 3000 dollars……. on an 80 dollar per month plan…….
It’s absolute highway robbery,
I used to use Optus and their plan was awesome, never had a problem only reason I changed was they wanted to charge me 200 dollars to disconnect at the old place and also 30 bucks a month because you have to have a phone line as well as internet…
They’re all a joke if you ask me but right now I’m just worried about the 3000 dollars I owe to a bunch of crooks.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:01:08 +0000

Now what’s wrong in this country, can someone explain please ???

I just flew in from the Netherlands and took a telstra 1500/256 connection with a 500 MB cap, because the unlimited is a bit pricy.
I used it in 2 days, because I use VOIP. What a load off crap here.

In Holland I had a 12Mb connection (really unlimited) for 49 $ a month.
I voip and download the necessairy Dvd’s, about 20 a day.

How can we push Telstra ??? Maybe we should all quit !!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 05:25:35 +0000

Im on optus as well and ive got 3 bars 1 being my 12Gb monthly alotment
2 being my bonus off peak data alotment IE 24Gb, and 3rd being what percentage of the month you have gone through i thinnk you my of misred the graph

By: SOL

SOL — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:57:34 +0000

I urge you all dump big pond now

By: dan

dan — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:57:28 +0000

owen… you you do have an upload limit on optus, it is double that of the download limit (e.g. im on the now redundant optus 12GB plan(i dont know why the hell they changed it)and it says “you have uploaded 6,853 megabytes of data” and shows a status bar with a 24 at the end.

By: Hans

Hans — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:53:35 +0000

I think 17mbps is also an average maximum calculated from the trial tests carried out in the months leading up to the new plans.

As is the 8mpbs which is advertised for the non-extreme plans.

I can easily reach speeds of 17mbps and even faster with 12 simultaneous connections to a premium usenet server in the US.

I can download more or less contantly at about 2.4 – 2.5 megabytes per second (20mbps), which is double that of the previously avaliable 10mbps.

At this rate you’d end up owing Telstra just over $1,000,000 dollars for your ~6.4terabytes of data.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:59:27 +0000

Bigpond are just greedy @#$*’s anyway!!!

By: johnsee

johnsee — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:20:57 +0000

As I state several times it is probably not possible to reach 17mbps. One would assume speeds of approximetly 10mbps should be able to be achieved fairly easily!

That aside, you don’t have to be downloading and storing to do that. Internet radio, streaming video… there are plenty of things that don’t require storage to use bandwidth.