00:00:00 - Who let the brakes off the internet?

Actrix have recently been offering what they call "FreeTime" between 18:00 and 20:00 each day for their CyberJet Broadband customers. ( It's very cool.... ) It is a subtle plug for their ~$500 unlimited plan. (soon to be ~$600/mo), and they soon realise NZ communities are crying out for truly unlimited, boundless connectivity.

Current Mood: awake

09:24:00 - GoLarge -> CyberJet (5Gb/day to 350Mb/day)

After 263 days and at least 400 Gigabytes of traffic, I've switched back from a Telecom Go Large plan (unlimited traffic, but shaped) to an Actrix Cyberjet plan (daily allowance, and 64K after that reset at 2am each day) for ADSL. Go Large was the ideal plan for me - some days using 5G of traffic, and others a bare 200MB - however it was totally the wrong plan for cabbettenz who prefers her internet interactive. She'll be browsing Trade Me or The Nappy Network Forums and hates the shaped slow speeds of Telcoms' GoLarge.

While I can't connect any faster than 1000Kbps (Line speed currently 896Kbps/160Kbps - a combination of modem and 4.2 km from exchange) at least now my 130 KB/s will be available on demand, and not shaped, lagged and frustrated.

I'm going for the 350 Mb/day plan at $49/mo - but might drop that back and fire up the dial-up modem again. at $8/mo for 17 gig of traffic, all you can eat dial-up is still cheaper than broadband.

Current Mood: awake

21:40:00 - InternetNZ AGM...

I 'attended' the InternetNZ AGM in Wellington this evening. Look a bunch of photos, and did enjoy the event. I never left the house though, thanks to R2.co.nz streaming the event live, and IRC..

So the pictures are at http://flickr.com/photos/mangee/tags/InternetNZ. Excuse the low resolution - my Xtra connection could only support the 56k stream.

More later.

Current Mood: tired

10:28:00 - SixXS goes global - with ipv6 tunnel endpoint in Wellington by ACSData.

09:38:00 - ipv6: prohibited by filter?

Onyx:~ jo$ ping 192.88.99.1
PING 192.88.99.1 (192.88.99.1): 56 data bytes
36 bytes from 69.80.192.66: Communication prohibited by filter

17:13:00 - A loud thud as you hit an ISP.

Current Mood: amused

00:21:00 - a "complex technology like broadband"

How complicated does it have to be.. sure if you filter it and manage it, and charge too much for it, then it gets complicated.. but does it have to be?

Quote attributed to 'Telecom' NZ in article:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/organisation/story.cfm?o_id=83&ObjectID=10412545
;)

Last week with Nat in the house I "Go Larged" my home adsl (formerly a CyberJet plan by Actrix), while it's "faster" and only $10 more... it kinda sucks. Give me real broadband any-day. dammit tho, the price is so 'good'

Current Mood: amused

18:22:00 - The Big Telecon... aka "Evil Telecom tries to shut down critics"

Evil Telecom tries to shut down critics

NZMac.com Episode 006 - NZMac.com and Darryn Lowe - NZMac.com

Current Mood: amused

00:20:00 - Peace Driving...

I'm inspired.

Came across this /. comment:

Current Music: One - Bluefish - Global Underground Ibiza

00:19:00 - Xtra has P2P blocks?

See http://www.flickr.com/photos/mangee/70816526/in/photostream?#comment19521791

[Sent to Xtra] via adsl_helpdesk@telecom.co.nz

For the last week I have been experiencing problems with my 'Broadband' Adventure 2Mbps (250K/s) ADSL connection.

I can download content such as movie trailers, stream audio, watch live video etc fine. But as soon as I load up my favourite Peer-to-Peer File Sharing application all traffic is shaped and blocked to 1K/s or so.

I switched to broadband from two constantly connected dial-up lines to get better bandwidth... not worse.

Attached is a graph. Before is normal traffic. I start my P2P application, and all traffic slows to a crawl, I quit the application, and my webpages load and stream reconnect and videos start downloading again.

Fix my internet, and turn off your blocks. I pay for internet, not a block.


Traffic killed.


Nothing... Normal Web downloads............... P2P (note shaping and decline).... Normal web traffic after quitting P2P.

I was disconnected while on hold this evening about 22:45-23:20 - Technician was performing tests.


-Jo
[unhappy customer]

Current Music: KWVE - msng - msng

Current Mood: aggravated

08:03:00 - An Internet Code of Practice? TCL stopped adhering when they stopped peering?

TelstraClear Ltd supports the 'New Zealand Internet Code of Practice'. Or at least they did back when they last updated their webpages

They link to it at:
http://www.isocnz.org.nz/code.htm

google reckons it here: www.isocnz.org.nz/icop/icop99the-code.html

In particular I think they stopped supporting it becuase of this:

3.2 INTERCONNECTION
In acknowledgement of the co-operative nature of the Internet, all members of the
 Internet Code of Practice who provide Internet Access services agree to the 
principal of unrestricted and open interconnection between members.
3.3 BLOCKING
Members of the Internet Code of Practice agree that blocking traffic from other 
parts of the Internet disrupts the integrity of the Internet, and should only be 
carried out in circumstances where it cannot be avoided. All other non-urgent 
circumstances such as disputes should be resolved using the Internet Code of 
Practice dispute procedures.

Current Mood: amused