For anyone on TelstraClear & not in the know

[Scuba_Steve]

Free weekend 2nd-4th Dec, NO USAGE METERS!!!, the catch???
"The company hoped the promotion would result in people discovering more they could do online." i.e. we want you to spend more when we charge again. (not a problem for most)
Heres the offical vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBCVor1hFSM

and a dompost article (while it mentions Wellington this is nationwide) (http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/business/innovation/6047436/Wellingtonians-to-get-unlimited-internet-this-weekend)

[SMOKEU]

My computer is going to be downloading porn all weekend.

[bogan]

Minecraft marathon!





though I do suspect SMOKEU's idea will be the main event :lol:

[willytheekid]

LOL..can't wait to see Telstra clear hit there available bandwidth service limits....get ready to crawl through the weekend folks :laugh: (while every 12yr old in NZ downloads Justin Beiber vids...mind you...I would put money on smokeu's porn downloads being the straw that breaks the camels back :laugh:....:crazy:)

[Scuba_Steve]

LOL..can't wait to see Telstra clear hit there available bandwidth service limits....get ready to crawl through the weekend folks :laugh: (while every 12yr old in NZ downloads Justin Beiber vids...mind you...I would put money on smokeu's porn downloads being the straw that breaks the camels back :laugh:....:crazy:)

My guess is Telstra's "testing the water" & relying on this 'skynet' to "control" people on the download front

[oneofsix]

you guys are so kind. My guess is their metering platform needs fixing so rather than saying there will be an outage they have spun it as a free for all. Good bit of PR.

[davereid]

you guys are so kind. My guess is their metering platform needs fixing so rather than saying there will be an outage they have spun it as a free for all. Good bit of PR.

Compass are advertising no limits as well for $79.95 naked broadband. www.compass.net.nz so maybe skynet has dropped usage patterns.

[Hitcher]

TelstraClear has proper glass fibre fed broadband, not that ADSL speed limited nonsense that gets wholesaled by the copper wire confederation.

[SMOKEU]

Damn my broadband is slow now, it's normally 15Mbps on the same servers. Last night I was down to 3Mbps maximum on several different servers. I quit all my torrent and other downloading apps before doing these tests.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1628389241.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1628391278.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1628392025.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[sil3nt]

I would kill for that upload speed.

[awa355]

Have noticed that any You Tube vids are slow to play.

[Hopeful Bastard]

And here i am with Orcon, Flying along quite happily and no probs with the Youtube vids.

Youtube music time.... :headbang::clap:

[willytheekid]

......:killingme

http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/9/23/128666662125842954.jpg

[Scuba_Steve]

I would kill for that upload speed.

you don't need to, just move to a Telstra cable area :D

[Paul in NZ]

Very slow and clunky all weekend... Wonderful idea telstra.... Makes me wonder why I pay you?

[Scuba_Steve]

cant say I noticed too much speed probs, maybee a little sat night but other than a few youtubes I was mainly downloading anyways. Reckon I managed 130gig down with prob another 40 up over the weekend, didn't quite get all I wanted but not a bad haul all up.

Surprisingly too I'd say a good 70% of that was all totally 100% legal, with another 20% being in grey area, the rest well we'll just let skynet decide how legal they were :innocent:

[SMOKEU]

I only managed to download around 50GB of stuff over the weekend. :cry: