Readers' Comments

Reader Comments on Aardvark Daily 23 Apr 2001
Note: the comments below are the unabridged submissions of readers and do
not necessarily reflect the opinions of the publisher.


From: David Annett
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: Qantas NZ Web Site Quiz

Snap quiz:
1. You are the web master for a company web site.  On
Saturday morning you find the company has gone into
receivership and tells you that there's no redunancy pay.
Do you:

a.  Attempt to do some free work for your ex-employer and
update the contents of their web site.

b.  Fire up your word processor and get your CV up to date
in the hope of finding work before the rent is due.




From: James Watts
For : Right Of Reply (for publication)
Subj: InSPire Nets definition of Unlimited

For the benefit of your readers and our future customers,
we have updated our jetstart page.

InSPire Net prides itself on providing high speed service
to its customers. We had two options in providing jetstart
connections, one was to make them totally unlimited and
throttle them so they did not perform (similar to some of
the other isps "unlimited" plans), or the other was to put
a reasonable boundary in place for those that wished to use
the service and have good speed connections.

InSPire Net provides unlimited National traffic on Jetstart.

InSPire Net reserves the right to review your jetstart
connection if you regularly exceed 10 gigs of International
traffic.

10 gigs of traffic is equivilent to approx 300 hours of
continuous full speed download, and that is only the
international portion of your monthly account, and does not
include your email, NZ based Internet banking etc.

The only people likely to even come close to using this
much traffic are those who are either running ftp for warez
or napster. Our average jetstart user uses approximately 1
gig of traffic. We provide jetstart to a hostel with over
30 students living in it, that dont even exceed this limit.

People have the right of choice as to who they use as a
Jetstart provider and the quality of service they require.
We chose to put an reasonable boundary in place to ensure
the satisfaction of all our customers. The people who want
to regularly try and get more traffic than this through
their jetstart connection should really look for another
ISP that has a plan that suits their needs.

I agree that the wording on our page needed to be modified,
and it has already been done.

If anyone would like to discuss this with me, please feel
free to email me.

James Watts
Managing Director




From: Andrew
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: Maybe I'm picky but....

128kbit = 16kilobytes per second.
16*60 = 960KB/min
960*60 = 57,600KB/hr

10,000,000,000 / 57,600,000 = 173.61 hrs. (7.23 days)
Nowhere near 300, even if you use the mathematically
correct gigabyte (1024^3):
10,737,418,240 / 57,600,000 = 186.41 hrs. (7.77 days)
Still a far cry from 300 hrs as James Watts claims.

My reason for this note?  I exceed 10gigs per month, every
month; it's not hard.  I'm glad I'm not with InSPire Net.




From: Taylor
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: Inspire and its Jetstart

I am a client of Inspire and use there Jetstart. I am
amazed at the excellent help/support that the company
provides to its clients.
I choose inspire because of there excellent service and
excellent pings and no packet loss. These are important to
me because I like to play games not download 10+ gigs of
data.

Most isps have limited their international traffic quotas
to a reasonable size considering the cost of the data,
service levels and costs of extra services offered
(homepage, pop email etc). For further info on other isps
comments on there limits please see the NZ ADSL mailing
list.

http://www.unixathome.org/adsl/

A few(xtra/telecom) isps have either got a unlimited plan
under jetstart but most isps have a 10Gb limit and some
even have a limit and degraded performance to napster and
ftp downloads to deter leeches from become clients. I
personal think that $34.95 that inspire charge is dirt
cheap for what you get.

If you want the most limited downloads possible on jetstart
then I suggest you head off to ihug and there you will find
this gem.
http://www.ihug.co.nz/products/connection/jet2000/index.html

Quote “What are the monthly fees?
Once installed, you'll pay one monthly fee to Telecom of
$29.95, and one
monthly fee to ihug of $34.95, plus any excess data charges
for international traffic over 2GB. Excess data charges are
6 cents per MB between the hours of 4pm - 1am and 2 cents
per MB between the hours of 1am - 4pm.”

I think I will stick with Inspire =)
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