Ohi AAPT, Why Won’t You Let Me Give You Money?

The other day, I came across this GLORIOUS offer from AAPT, an ISP in Austfailia. This afternoon, I gave them a call to enquire as to how good a deal it really was. Connection stability and speed aside, I went straight to the important bits: QUOTA. Australia has this awesome idea that all ISP’s should offer a quota, as in, if you download more than a certain amount during a certain time of the day, say hello to symmetrical 64kbit speeds. Obviously this AAPT offer for TRULY UNLIMITED off-peak downloads was awesome.

I download a lot, and I mean, a LOT. So when I called AAPT, I was much less than pleased to find out that their peak quota maxes out at 60GB. Nonetheless, I persevered, only to be completely and utterly shocked that an ISP is unable to handle multiple connections to the same physical location over different lines. I have two phone lines (disconnected from actual phones, because I live with a bunch of antisocial misfits) and I also have a dual line modem. It allows me to plug two lines into the modem and effectively split traffic between them.

I guess you can see where I cam going with this: $200 a month for 120GB peak, unmetered offpeak, 48MBit, although at my distance from the DSLAM it would be more like 12MBit, still a vast improvement on my current speed, at a slightly cheaper price. However, it seems AAPT is unable to have two COMPLTELY SEPARATE LINES going to the same client. How is that even a problem AAPT, please, just tell me.

My current quota is roughly 750GB including WAIX. I use almost all of this. How long till an ISP in Australia can offer me a useable plan I wonder? I pay an absolute fortune so clearly funding isn’t an issue, but why is it that no matter how much I pay I cannot get a non-commercial line with reasonable speeds and tranfer? The only thing I need say further is the following:

Dear Each and Every ISP in Australia,

Fuck you all.

Love,
Emess

July 30, 2009 | Filed Under Internet 

Comments

5 Responses to “Ohi AAPT, Why Won’t You Let Me Give You Money?”

  1. benproNo Gravatar on August 4th, 2009 2:45 AM

    OMG ISP with quota still exists ?
    You don’t have luck to have a fucking ISP.
    In France all ISPs are unlimited :p

  2. EmessNo Gravatar on August 4th, 2009 9:40 PM

    I don’t live in France though. Some of my servers are hosted there however.

  3. benproNo Gravatar on August 7th, 2009 4:48 PM

    What provider you use for your servers ?
    OVH ?

  4. EmessNo Gravatar on August 9th, 2009 12:41 PM

    Yes, and others.

  5. deathwombatNo Gravatar on September 3rd, 2009 12:10 AM

    Or move to Japan and pay $20 for unlimited 8gbit internet…

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