On 16/06/2014 6:45 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote:
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/861370721
Give me those speeds [regularly] and DSL/NBN download quota without uploads being counted as well as a static IP and I won't need the NBN.
That's crazy-fast! He must be the only LTE user in the suburb, and lives under the tower or something?
Yes, but he posted another slightly faster one on Facebook a few minutes later, so it wasn't a flook. It also may have to do with being a business plan. With my router and USB stick installed in Brooklyn ... I couldn't match the speeds of his Note 3 from Optus.
With your friend's 93mbit/s, he could blow through a 2500MByte quota in just three and a half minutes, and after that spend $28 per minute on excess data charges (assuming a 4 cent per mbyte charge for excess data).
True, but ON the mobile, he has unlimited data -- tethering is limited to 10GB on his plan. A suspect it might be possible to do some creative routing .. he has found that his Android tablet data isn't counted when he is tethered to his phone, but his other gear is.
Mobile carriers seriously need to start giving us higher quotas on 4G plans already! :(
Absolutely. Mobile phones are the way that carriers, like Hel$tra, get timed local calls and other excessively high costs. Today data is counted up and down on mobiles, but not on many DSL plans (some real competition here, unlike the mobile world). Cheers A.