differentduck
February 4th, 2011, 08:36 PM
Kay so, I live quite rurally. We had dial up forever, and finally a company came along called Xplornet with "super fast broadband" for $69.99/month!
My parents jumped on this "deal" and we got it. The satellite got installed, then we realized it isn't good. At all.
It is 512 kbps, which is brutal. Plus, there is a stupid friggin 24 mb per HOUR download "cap" or whatever you want to call it. After we exceed that amount (which is easy as hell) our internet bandwidth or speed or whatever you call it is reduced to a maximum of 25% the normal speed. So yeah. After the hour is up, their servers re-evaluate our usage and then bring the speed back up if we haven't exceeded 24 mb again.
Here is the paragraph from their "fair access policy" that is shown when we log into our account online:
"On your service the Fair Access Policy is based on an hourly bandwidth allowance. If you exceed your hourly download or upload allowance, your service will go into “Recovery Mode”. While in Recovery Mode, your speed will be restricted to a maximum of 25% (download) or 50% (upload) of your normal maximum speed.
Recovery Mode will continue for sixty minutes. At the end of sixty minutes, the system will reevaluate your usage over the prior 60 minutes. If that usage is below the hourly allowance, Recovery Mode will end and your speed will no longer be restricted."
This is the chart they show of the packages they offer. Only the first one is available in our region so no, we can't upgrade. (click to make bigger)
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This is the rest of their statement:
"To encourage users to shift demanding usage to off-peak hours, we have a “Free Download Period”. Any usage during this period, which runs from 2am to 7am local time daily, is not counted against your hourly allowance. Also, the speed restrictions associated with Recovery Mode are suspended during this period.
As well, there is an additional policy that affects all customers on your platform. This policy operates only during peak hours (between 8am and 1am local time). During this time, we subject traffic related to applications that are considered non time-sensitive (such as peer-to-peer file sharing, including BitTorrent-type applications, news groups, and online data storage (e.g. Rapidshare) to a peak transfer speed of 3% of the unrestricted maximum speed on your package."
2 AM to 7 AM I think is dumb. I am up at 6:45 for school, so I get 15 minutes of good-ish speed.
Anyone else think this sucks? And what is your speed?
THANKFULLY, Shaw is bringing out fibre optics this spring and we should get faster 'nets. I look forward to that day!
/end rant.
My parents jumped on this "deal" and we got it. The satellite got installed, then we realized it isn't good. At all.
It is 512 kbps, which is brutal. Plus, there is a stupid friggin 24 mb per HOUR download "cap" or whatever you want to call it. After we exceed that amount (which is easy as hell) our internet bandwidth or speed or whatever you call it is reduced to a maximum of 25% the normal speed. So yeah. After the hour is up, their servers re-evaluate our usage and then bring the speed back up if we haven't exceeded 24 mb again.
Here is the paragraph from their "fair access policy" that is shown when we log into our account online:
"On your service the Fair Access Policy is based on an hourly bandwidth allowance. If you exceed your hourly download or upload allowance, your service will go into “Recovery Mode”. While in Recovery Mode, your speed will be restricted to a maximum of 25% (download) or 50% (upload) of your normal maximum speed.
Recovery Mode will continue for sixty minutes. At the end of sixty minutes, the system will reevaluate your usage over the prior 60 minutes. If that usage is below the hourly allowance, Recovery Mode will end and your speed will no longer be restricted."
This is the chart they show of the packages they offer. Only the first one is available in our region so no, we can't upgrade. (click to make bigger)
2561
This is the rest of their statement:
"To encourage users to shift demanding usage to off-peak hours, we have a “Free Download Period”. Any usage during this period, which runs from 2am to 7am local time daily, is not counted against your hourly allowance. Also, the speed restrictions associated with Recovery Mode are suspended during this period.
As well, there is an additional policy that affects all customers on your platform. This policy operates only during peak hours (between 8am and 1am local time). During this time, we subject traffic related to applications that are considered non time-sensitive (such as peer-to-peer file sharing, including BitTorrent-type applications, news groups, and online data storage (e.g. Rapidshare) to a peak transfer speed of 3% of the unrestricted maximum speed on your package."
2 AM to 7 AM I think is dumb. I am up at 6:45 for school, so I get 15 minutes of good-ish speed.
Anyone else think this sucks? And what is your speed?
THANKFULLY, Shaw is bringing out fibre optics this spring and we should get faster 'nets. I look forward to that day!
/end rant.