>This post was best-effort live-blogged at the conference

Cut them some slack.

To promote their own service. While the actual talk will probably be actually posted online in multiple forms.

Current UQ student here. They currently provide 40GB a month. If that's not enough, you're probably torrenting.

40GB is like one week's worth of one hour a night HD video. That's emphatically not enough.

Imagine if you're running netflix ;)

You cannot be serious. I use ~120GB a month and I don't consider myself a heavy user. I don't torrent. I do watch Netflix.

Edit: 40GB a month works out to one hour a day at 3.2Mbps. I have a 100Mbps connection. If I used half its capacity for only an hour a day, I'd consume about 630GB/month.

40 GB is easy to hit with all kinds of legitimate uses, especially since most people do a mixture of things. In some months, I probably would fill more than half of that quota with university homework, and e.g. someone reinstalling their PC with all the software on it easily goes into the tens of GBs as well. As can YouTube, Twitch, ...

The year after I finished at Griffith, they implemented a 'Unlimited free internet downloads during off-peak hours' policy. Just reading up on it though, it's not as good value as I first thought: the first 5GB are full-speed, then thereafter you're capped to 64kbps off-peak for the rest of the calendar month.

This was UQ Ipswitch (at that time that's where the IxD program was, no?) ? And this was 2009.

I think they had a maybe 200 MB/mo.

At the same time at Stanford, I was using about 50 TB/mo.

Edit: update: I was one of the largest bandwidth users, they sent me a letter every month. No I will not go into detail.

I was a UQ student 2005-08 and can confirm you got 150mb/month quota with the option to buy more at $10/gb. If you lived on campus that was your only option for Internet.

Thankfully they've upped it now.

Thanks for confirming this. My 2009 date was off, it was actually 2007 and I glad you clarified for me. My 200 MB/month was based on rough memory and I thought I might have made it up.

And they wonder why DCHubs were so prolific through the UQ colleges...

Change/Add the/an RSS so that there is a feed with new items first, perhaps with an optional parameter for a minimum point count before it appears on the feed?