Some bright spark decided to download 26GB of stuff a few days into our billing month, which pushed us seriously close to our (peak) 40GB download limit. Then somehow there were several days with 3-4GB of downloads (even on a Saturday!) – normally usage is less than 1GB per day.
All this means our 11Mbps ADSL2+ is shaped to 64kbps, and will be for another 3 weeks. Dial-up speeds shared between 6 people, plus mail server, VPN connections and Skype accounts. I’m actually alone in the office at the moment and it is annoyingly slow! That said, TPG’s shaping is actually quite good: things aren’t timing out like what happened when I was once shaped on WestNet.
Tomorrow everyone returns and I wonder how an Internet-based company can do work with such pitiful Internet. We might have to double the monthly spend and get a 100GB plan, instead of the 40GB (plus 110GB usable between 3am and 9am, which is basically useless in an office).