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Re: Ihugs ULTRA - No good for gaming ?

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From: Craig Sutton
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:00
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"Adam Warner" <Adam.Warner@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Craig,
>
> > One question about satnet ultra, if i used 300 hours, can I then use the
> > service via normal modem dialup only..if so will these hours be charged
at
> > $1.50 or will they be considerd like the normal flatrate.
>
> I have no idea (I'm not an Ihug employee or representative).  However I
> suspect that wouldn't circumvent the 300 hour limit because it would still
> be the one account and Ihug would just count the time you were using it.
> There was no official time limit before and dialup only was useful if the
> 3GB download "limit" was going to be exceeded (otherwise it was ~$100/GB
> thereafter, i.e. 10c/MB).
>
> If you set your computer to dial on demand with an automatic logoff after
5
> or so minutes of inactivity it's quite possible you would never have to
give
> the 300 hour/month limit another thought.
>
> Regards,
> Adam
>
But where I am I would be useing the Pas 2 service...so if i wanted to use
normal dialup for lower pings when gameing  I would want to use modem dialup
for more stable performance..

As for 300 hours a month I often do 350...mostly overnight downloading which
i guess wouldnt happen if i had the speed of Ultra
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From: "Craig Sutton" <suttonc@ihug.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Ihugs ULTRA - No good for gaming ?
Date: 2000/07/11
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