Friday, 13th of February, 2004

Fuck! I thought I’d waste some of my unlimited downloads (technically after 10GB they can throttle us down to 64k but I doubt I’ll get up to that anyway) by downloading some Linux distros. I might as well get rid of the Mandrake-Linux installation I have on a separate partition of my lovely laptop’s hard drive and put some kind of Debian there…

So I went and had a look at the DeMuDi site and thought I’d download the ISOs from there. (ISOs are disc images of CDs, ie the entire content of a CD as one file which you can burn using something like Nero…)

I’m currently sucking down all four ISOs at once - The first at 130k/sec, the second at 141.1k/sec, the third at 140k/sec and the fourth at 115k/sec (all approx). That’s a combined speed of 525k/sec, and no discernable effect on email downloading, web browsing etc… Insane!

[Bigpond currently have a rather bizarre pricing scheme in place for their cable plans - see here: our old plan, the 3GB one, is $87.95/month with uncapped downloads and 128k capped uploads, and 13.9 c/MB after the 3GB limit. Of course, with Bigpond’s pongy service, a good half the months we’ve been subscribed so far they’ve given us money back because of downtime… But anyway.
Compare the 3GB plan with the new Unlimited plan. Uncapped download speeds (see above…), 128k capped uploads, and UNLIMITED downloads (potentially slowed to 64k after 10GB), and it costs $69.95. Do the maths - does this make sense? Well, it made sense to me! I swapped to it as soon as possible, even though I’ve been having trouble even getting much over 3GB since I started in January… Fun and games.]

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