Free iBurst bandwidth after midnight

@Conkill: what would you guess is the % of users that would "abuse" this offer?

The ISP would never offer this if they thought that all their users would be negatively impacted by a handful of "power users".
 
Must say after a while one does run out of usefull stuff to download, seriously makes you wonder what the guys that do over 200GB a month are downloading.... YouTube mirror maybe?

Dont know how the network is coping in other areas but from my experience so far there cant be many people in my area making use of this trial. I get a decent 100K download speeds through the morning...
 
RVQ said:
Must say after a while one does run out of usefull stuff to download, seriously makes you wonder what the guys that do over 200GB a month are downloading.... YouTube mirror maybe?

Dont know how the network is coping in other areas but from my experience so far there cant be many people in my area making use of this trial. I get a decent 100K download speeds through the morning...
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porn, porn, porn :)
 
Somebody still needs to explain to me how using a service which is provided is abuse.
When iBurst say "you can download at a full 1Mb/s between midnight and eight in the morning, for free, for the next three months, and after that we'll let you know how much it'll cost to continue using the service", it means that you can utilise your connection, for free, to the full 1Mb/s capacity of the connection, for 8 hours a day, until the end June.

End. Of. Story.

Or is there a finite supply of 1 & 0's each month that I don't know about? Is it possible that we can use up teh interwebz, and nobody will be able to go online until the digital faeries make more 1's & 0's next month?
It's like the municipality telling you that they're not going to charge you for water utilised during a given time frame each day for the next three months, and you can use it however you want, but if you take a shower during that particular time period, you're abusing the service.
 
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NVM, what I posted here originally was meant to be in another thread, no idea how it ended up here....

Ah, now I see, the topics were merged
 
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BacchusZA said:
It's like the municipality telling you that they're not going to charge you for water utilised during a given time frame each day for the next three months, and you can use it however you want, but if you take a shower during that particular time period, you're abusing the service.
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I agree with your logic but the last bit is an incorrect analogy. BW is an artificially limited resource while water isn't. There really is only so much water in the dams and rivers, if you open up all the taps and it all escapes you will not have it anymore until the reservoirs can be replenished. On the other hand data is available continously, iBurst rents a pipe and distributes it. I guess that if more people use the service then they will have to rent a wider pipe. That will cost more or they can keep the old one and then the service will degrade for everyone. In the latter option it will not cost iBurst anything. I guess they want to see how many people download and how much pipe they have to rent to keep acceptable levels - in that regard it would be beneficial for iBurst if people used this service freely to get an accurate idea for 3 months time when they may release this service. If no-one uses it now and iBurst makes it free and then suddenly thousands of people wake up and use it - iBurst may have to go back on their word and charge more, or the opposite could happen - lots could use it now and when they downloaded most of the things they wanted, come July they charge $$$ extra but then hardly anyone dl's anything because they've satisfied their thirst.

Uncapped is uncapped. Once people get used to it, all but a few ardent collectors will ease off and probably download 10-20% more than they did on their capped service, or perhaps even less, because now people download everything at the end of the month to not have their expensive cap go to waste.
 
Heh yup, I knew that wasn't the most accurate analogy to draw, but the principle applies - a service being offered, but there being complaints (currently by the "public" so to speak) that actually using the service as advertised is tantamount to abuse :p
 
So far I've downloaded 12GBs in 10 days. (Including during the day)

Anybody beat that?...:p
 
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