Comments on: How not to blow your download limit at the iTunes Store

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:28:55 +0000

iTunes uses Akamai to distribute a lot of it’s content. iiNet has Akamai hardware in it’s datacenter(s), and as iiNet peer with PIPE and WAIX, these services are visible to other PIPE/WAIX peering ISPs.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:51:21 +0000

Does iTunes/Apple peer with any Aussie peering services? Pipe Wiax?

By: jna

jna — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:43:52 +0000

I’m not advising you do this but you do know you can purchase US itunes cards on ebay for a slightly inflated price. This allows you to use the US itunes store which has more content and cheaper prices (the cheaper prices more than account for the slight inflated price you pay for the card).

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:20:08 +0000

Let's face it, while places like Europe and America can recieve high speeds with no cap, and much cheaper services. Australian ISP's are just milking us for revenue!
Sly ISP TV adverts prey on those that have absolutely no idea about how bandwidth works, then sell them a crap deal which has all sorts of ludicrous hidden costs after going over your measly 2gig bundled with your home phone.

By: WolfDog

WolfDog — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:17:52 +0000

I’m with Comcen and have unlimited download but only at a speed of 23kps, so i download all day. I can download 180mb in under 3 hours, so it’s slow but unlimited. I used Whirlpool to find my perfect ISP.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:14:26 +0000

$2.99 an episode?!?!?!? Why do Australian’s always get inflated prices on Apples products? $2.99 is 150% of what the HIGHEST american store price is for TV shows. I guess they have to keep things consistent, like the $1.69 per track price.

By: David S.

David S. — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:50:48 +0000

Well I've downloaded several TV programs and a new music album since the announcement of TV show availability and the speed has been impressive, as it usually is using iTunes. I was expecting large TV video files to take much longer to download than they did.

The subject of download limits is however a real problem for us here in Australia, it's time all the ISPs woke up and realised that by pushing such stingy limits they're only hurting the take up of broadband and their future business prospects. Drop the ludicrous 200/400 MB limits and start offering reasonably priced 15-30GB plans along with some 50+GB ones too. Pretty soon (presumably) the iTunes store will be offering feature length movies at several GB a pop, and without such limit increases it'll be totally impractical to use.

By: Frustrated Consumer

Frustrated Consumer — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:35:46 +0000

Again this highlights the shortcomings of the Australian way of doing the Internet. I've opted for a higher end Bigpond service which offers 30Mbs speeds, and I can get that for Australian sites. But at that rate the meager 25GB cap for a family of 5 can go very quickly.

We cannot participate in the Video Internet with these caps. It just doesn't work.