Actrix’s New DSL Plans

While most NZ ISPs are stuck with their 10gb/month caps, rate limiting to 64k when the cap’s exceeded, Actrix are doing something different which hopefully might push other ISPs to do the same.

It’s the same concept – once you hit the cap you’re rate limited, but instead of 10gb/month its 1gb/day on their 2mbit plan. This works out at 30gb a month or thereabouts, which is a much more realistic figure when your speed is that fast. Limiting users to 10gb a month while providing the speed to do that much transfer in a day is kinda dumb.

Ideally, we’d be in a world without data caps (or speed caps for that matter, but that’s a whole different issue), but realistically we’ll hafta deal with them due to the excessive cost of that bandwidth for the ISPs themselves. Until that comes down, I guess we’ll have to live with what we’ve got, or wait til replacement high speed data transmission systems are perfected.