So as it seems, the Australian NBN service (the satellite side) has taken steps to make sure that people don’t use “excessive” amounts of data.
A new policy has introduced a rule that if 50GB of data is used over a period (either 2 or 4 weeks) that they will be punished for doing as so by being throttled back to 128k for a period of a couple of weeks.
However, it is not the ISP’s fault for this, NBNCo has set the bandwidth shaping on their side and the ISP’s can’t do jack about it.
So let’s just get this clear - imagine you have a 70GB/mo data plan, as soon as you hit 50GB in that month it is virtually impossible to use the rest of your data plan, and the start of your next billing period is throttled for two weeks.
The reason for this baloney? NBNCo supposedly “Over-subscribed” their service. So somehow this is a fix to lower bandwidth usage? Perhaps towards the end of the month when 90% of their subscribers have been booted off the network, but at the start of the month as everyone starts updating their software and downloading stuff…
So, apparently in Australia - 50GB in a four week period (for home and business) on a brand new network in 2015 is considered excessive and requires punishment.
Not surprised really, the NBN trying to have as many customers on their service, but discreetly 'restricting' the customer's access after the 'honeymoon period' (all about profit)
As is true for those users, though I'm not on the service myself (I'm on Telstra 100megabit, so no complaints here other than a weak uplink). It seems quite worrysome that they're essentially going against what the service stands for - a fast modern-day service to allow Australians to communicate and actually get what they're paying for.
Granted satellite sucks (mostly for latency, throughput is relatively manageable if you consider what else is available to the common public), it's still a worry - especially when such a bold move for something that really wont stand to actually help their throughput issues.
It would be nice if that money went into some fiber rather than what is destined to be space junk
In the mid-1980's there was optical-fibre laid by contractors between Mackay, and Rockhampton. Yet 30-metres to the west of this trench there is a new NBN wireless tower, this has me scratching my head.
Satellite is orders of magnitude cheaper than running a cable out to every person living in the middle of nowhere. No one is going to pay for that. If you want good internet, move somewhere that has it, if you want a sheep farm, then suck it up and deal with satellite. It's unreasonable for people to think they can have everything they want without making compromises.
Hell yeah, I wouldve done anything for a half decent satellite connection when I had a house 3 hrs nth wst of Brisbane. Lived with 56k for a good few years.