Plans larger than 500GB

Question

Are there any plans of having quotas increased from the maximum 500GB that is available now. I'm finding my limit is being used quite frequently and quickly as the months go on. I utilise iTunes for a lot of my TV and am finding that for the qaulity that iTunes deliver the average TV show is around 1.3GB. Along with other net based activity and 3 children ranging from high school to primary, for me personally 500GB is the new 200GB.I don't need unlimited (although it would be handy) I'm hoping that perhaps 1TB plans might be in the pipeline.I'm in a Telstra only exchange and aprt fromExetel and Dodo (unlimited) iiNet seem to be the only ones offering a 1TB plan via TW.  Regards  

Answer 1

DanfromQLD wrote:
It amazes me how in this day and age that you don't have access to a decent service, wow! Speaks volumes about the current telecommunications infrastructure we currently have and hence the NBN will help aleviate a lot of this. The service I get is decent, I have some minor congestion issues in peak times but other than that it is a decent service.  Am I happy what I pay for it, no, but what choice is there from another ISP?  None. The NBN will be very helpful to us, it will level off the internet access options for everyone far better than it does now.DanfromQLD wrote:
And you seem perplexed that I find 500GB not ample but in the same sentence you struggle with your own quota. A tad contradictory don't ya think  Are you kidding, you are trying to tell me that while you have access to 500GB I should be happy with and not complain about not having enough data with only 15GB available.  I challenge you and your family to go a month on only 15GB TOTAL.
Contradictory, rofl and again are you kidding!.  Again you get 500GB per month, try and limit that to 15GB.  Or as I said if 500GB really is not enough BUY another account or go elsewhere if other ISP's are offerring 1TB plans, no one is stopping you,DanfromQLD wrote:
I really don't need to reiterate what I have written in my initial post but if you ponder back though and do some maths you might educate yourself somewhat. Just for sh$%s and giggles, please do some reseach on itunes and file sizes along with a family of five that includes teenages.  We are a family of 5, with our children all teenagers, so what's your point?  
If you do the maths you get 500GB per month, that is 16.6GB (roughly) per day, note how that is more than what we get for a whole month,  That is 3.34GBs per day per person in your household. Continue with the maths, we get 15GB (for the whole month), that is 500MBs (note MB not GB) per day, which equated to 100MB's per day per person in our household.
If you do the maths the answer is quite an easy one to understand. Oh and knowing file sizes etc in itunes and everywhere else is essential in our household where we do not allow file downloads unless it is critical download like virus definition updates, we do not use youtube EVER!, we do not use Skype EVER! Our kids cannot play any form of online games EVER!DanfromQLD wrote:
 To give you some credit, we don't always use 500GB but the last few months we have so I asked the question.There is a reason there are ISPs out there with 1TB, 2TB and unlimited plans, the demand for bandwidth is increasing everyday.  I would hate to imagine how many HDDs you must have in your Computers to store 500GB or more per month.  I know storage is cheap but sheesh!  While I realise it is not all stored that is still a significant amount every month. Again if you want more data than the whopping 500GB's you already get. you have choices;1. Buy another plan2. Go to another ISP that provides larger plans (good luck with that)3. Get outside and do less on the computers Cheers GW