willing, but difficult to to be seeder in belgium!!!!

i\'ve been into torrents for about a year now. great way to download tv-shows!
i\'d love to be able to seed everything i download full-time, but the thing is
here in belgium... i pay 65euro(about 88 usd) for a reasonably fast connection
with a combined up and download limit of 35gb. wich in my opinion is a lot of
money for a very limited data-transfer. just wanted to share the my
frustration!!

wow, you have definately made me feel a bit better. here in australia, we have
pretty poor internet connections and isp's charge an arm and a leg. but
luckily even though we pay for downloads, uploads are not counted towards our
limit (in most cases). problem is, with my package, 25gb simply doesn't get me
everything i want!! if it included uploads too, i'd be screwed!! one of my
torrents has been seeding for nearly 3.5 weeks!!
i seed for as long as possible. i think that's all that anyone can ask of
you. 🙂

you are right aussiemadmum our connections in australia are horrible mine is
even worse than both of your i pay $59.95 per month for 12gb and uploads are
counted towards the limit so as you can probaly guess it doesn't get me very
far i go through my limit the first day then i am shaped to 64k for the rest
of the month it is with bigpond and where i live in brisbane i cannot get adsl
or adsl2+ only cable which there is only bigpond and optus are the only two
providers of cable internet in the entire country so i have no options except
to stay with bigpond all because telstra was too cheap to put an extra cable
in the ground so that i don't share the same phone line with my next door
neighbour so therefore i can't get adsl until they give me a separate cable

difficult but not impossible

definately give optus a try, they are 100 times better than telstra.

i've got to pay 35

im in uk

excuse me. wrong thread.

i thought mine sucked i get 170kb down / 1.5mbit but i pay for 3mbit which costs
45cad a month luckily i have no bandwidth caps, that would really suck. the most
annoying part my friend who lives like 2km away has same plan as me and gets
500kb/s.

hopefully the isps smarten up and start giving us all 100mbit connections at $20.

i can download really fast at school though just not torrents. if you have limit
see if you can leech at your local college.

sounds like pairgain bullshit as usual. this thread at whirlpool might give
you some hints and tips about how to get out from under the pigpond / optus
thumb.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/794542.html

otherwise have you looked into the wireless option? then you could also
completely ditch your landline and go wif a reliable voip provider - anything
to hit the two bigguns where it hurts ... that being their profit margain on
unrealistic line fees of which you cant even have ur own line!?! fuck em.

i find it incredible that someone living around brissy cant at least get adsl!
i lived in a small town of 3000 in outback central qld and could get adsl. im
pretty sure that someday soon the smaller adsl providers will get shitty enough
wif telstra and optus playing with the lines so noone else can use em, and
force them to fix the problem.

anyway in reply to the op ... you also have my sympathies. as already
mentioned aussies have pretty crappy options for isps too. pigpond have put
unneccessary limits and charges on the aussie internet which affects all
providers. imho australia is capable of offering soooo much better.

im pretty lucky cause i got a "fair-go" plan (which changed half-way thru my
contract - from unlimited downloads to 60gb and is unavailable to new customers
of my isp) which costs me $80 a month for a 1500/256 connection. thats 25 peek
and 35 off ... which isnt too bad considering what else is on offer out there,
but i do run out about a week before my month is up. i get unlimited free pipe
between anyone in my state also, which at the moment i do approximately 5-10 gb
in pipe - which is basically free adsl when im shaped to dialup - if i get
enough qld seeders on my torrents (of which there seem to be plenty here at
eztv!). of course, theres no surfing the net while im shaped and pipe is in
action. hopefully when my contract ends in november ill be changing to a new
provider offering 100 gb for $100 (1500/256). but that still wont be enuff
when the peak tv season starts up again! lol.

well done ven. i had seen the post earlier, just didnt have a chance to find
the web address to send.

check the site below, and see if you can come up with a better option for your
provider.
h**p://bc.whirlpool.net.au/

ven, i would check into that. they can't change the terms of the contract, as
far as i am aware. i know of heaps of people that are on plans that aren't
available anymore, that may be slow, but with unlimited d/l. the companies
must honour their contract until the customer changes plans or providers.

aussie internet sucks, big time. hopefully the pollies will pull their finger
out and keep to their damn promises that they're all so willing to make at the
moment.

the provider offered all contract customers free opt out if they did not want
to stay on with the changed plan. we opted to stay as it was still a good deal
at the time, but we have found better since so we are just waiting to opt out
at no charge.

i'm loving it im on a 512 plan from exetel where i pay $60 a month and i get 36
gigs on peak (12 pm to 12 am) on 40 gigs off peak. if anyone wants to check out
some broadband plans http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/ is a great place to go. just do
a search for plans and that should get you going

the only one i can give a definition to off the top of my head is pipe. my isp
provides free pipe within my state - which is basically free download useage
(the mbs that is) with anyone in my state .... even when im shaped to dialup,
my pipe will run at my full connection speed if i can connect to a torrent with
lots of qlders (which is quite easy to do with many eztv files - especially the
most popular shows). pipe will also connect during unshaped periods and will
not count towards my download limit, but utorrent will deliberatly search out
the best connections when im shaped so i notice pipe is much more effective
then. each month i can do 5-10gb in free download via pipe once ive been shaped
(as i said before im on 60gb at 1500/256 with shaping to 64kb). basically how
pipe worx is it creates a connection between you and another state local peer
because you are both connected to the same highspeed peering point - missing
your isp altogether.

oh okay ... i looked it up and saix, vix, and ausix are similar peering
serivces to what i just described about pipe. heres a whirlpool thread that
can probably explain things better than i can:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/257400.html

so whether you think its worth going without these services is up to you - you
know, way up the pros and cons, blah blah. hoped that helped a bit. 🙂

yeah, i've seen quite a few packages with these restrictions. my question is,
if it doesn't peer with any of these, does it allow us to download torrents
full stop?

also, make sure that when checking out the isp's thru this site that you read
the comments also. some sound like great plans, but the headaches that the
users have had with the company has not been worth the hassle. also, because
many of the companies seem very obscure, it's good to get some feedback from
the users. many of them i have never heard of. but their deals are heaps
better than that of telstra (duh, like that's hard:)) and optus.