[LINK] Surprise from Internode - upgrade speed

[Kim Holburn]

On 2011/Apr/26, at 5:49 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote:

> On 25/04/11 10:43 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> 
>> I was just looking over internode's new plans and they have moved to
>> a combined upload and download cap.  Strange.  The caps appear to be
>> five times as large as an equivalent current plan but currently they
>> only count downloads.  When you factor in uploads as well as
>> downloads their new caps are only around double the current size
>> (depending on your usage of course).  Confusing, but what's really
>> happening and why?  Why the move to count uploads now? After all,
>> uploads are already limited by the asymmetry anyway.
> 
> If you have a look at the related Power Packs you can switch it back
> to only the downloads counting towards the quota.  I recently switched
> from one of their old SOHO plans to the Agile/Easy plans with the pack
> and effectively raised my quota from 60Gb to 150Gb at no extra cost.

For an extra $10 per month I can get what should be basic?  I don't think so.  I noticed too that if you do "upgrade" to a new plan, there is a $29 fee to go back to your old plan.  What is that about?

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