Phoning in Bomb Threats is also very effective.

We could use some aircraft and parachute a bunch of drop bears into the corp hq of telstra... once a few levels of upper management get their faces eaten off by rabid furballs, things might change. Would make an interesting night's news if nothing else.

Eh...

I live in a major US city and Time Warner Cable has a monopoly on all things internet here. My service is 15 down 6 up unlimited. We don't get cease and desist notices for using p2p services, and the service has been pretty reliable throughout.

I just get amazed at some of these stories about net companies and their policies.

For instance, I was in an airport waiting room in Baghdad waiting for my flight home for leave, and there's a wireless service provided. It's 15 bucks a day with a 1g limit. I thought that was just pure highway robbery based on the money they expected for the meager rations they were selling.

KSarty:
Man, I had no idea that you had such a low cap in Australia. I just recently switched to fiber-optics from Verizon here in the US and its mega fast, but I'm not sure what the cap is if there is one. I previously had Comcast but their new cap of 250gb is still pretty generous.

On the piracy issue, I'm not really sure why everyone thinks piracy is the reason they are capping you. The OP said his limit is 15gb, and that is a perfectly reachable limit from legitimate downloads. I must hit 20-30gb a month in legitimate downloads alone.

I don't know what the transfer rate is when you're playing WoW, but let me tell you, you hit 1g quickly.

Virgil:

hearty0:
My recommendation would if you really are all out with this would be to initiate a DDOS attack...

Do NOT do this, and if anyone else suggests anything similar they won't be posting here any more.

Since that reply came from a mod, I have to ask, what is a DDOS attack? Is that that thing that constantly hits an ISP and bogs it down for the sake of chaos?

Ixus Illwrath:

Virgil:

hearty0:
My recommendation would if you really are all out with this would be to initiate a DDOS attack...

Do NOT do this, and if anyone else suggests anything similar they won't be posting here any more.

Since that reply came from a mod, I have to ask, what is a DDOS attack? Is that that thing that constantly hits an ISP and bogs it down for the sake of chaos?

I'd tell you, but I don't think the mods would appreciate it. It's a frowned upon action to say the least, so I'd say leave it. If you really want to know, search elsewhere.

Anyways, there's nothing that can really be done in Australia. We need that fibre-optic infrastructure Rudd promised us, but he has axed the plan. Unfortunately, we're still in the dark because of this.

Virgil,
I hear you, not my style at all was merely being polite in response to the suggestion.
Oh and Madman bomb threats ARE NOT effective, they are counterproductive and dangerous, and lead to the government rolling our civil liberties back 60 years.

With a bit of thought, what i think we really need is some kind of way to get the executive of the biggest ISPs to recognize that allowing, nay encouraging the use of data is good for their companies and to price it accordingly.

stompy:
Anyways, there's nothing that can really be done in Australia. We need that fibre-optic infrastructure Rudd promised us, but he has axed the plan. Unfortunately, we're still in the dark because of this.

There already is a Fibre-optic network in Canberra and well it needs to go broke atleast one more time before it will be a competitive option.

Just to give you an Idea: http://www.transact.com.au
built by the local Gov and a corporate, Sold the network off for a loss.
Bought by a corporate, and they started going broke so the network was sold off again (from memory it's only been twice so far, could be more).
Now owned by the local Elec & gas company, still the most expensive way to get BB.

The Cost of drilling under all the roads in Canberra and the Km's of fibre meant that is cost millions! and well Canberra dose not have the population density to make the network profitable. They use VDSL for the last 50m over twisted copper pair.

I could see the point of doing it around a heavily high rise residential area, where you could cover 100,000 of units/customers in a block or too, but other wise there are better & cheaper Technology's that will get you connected.

Also Realistically in Au the "last mile" is not the bottle neck.

enjoy
edit: spelling