Slingshot has data banking, you don't use it, it floats over to the next month. Seems responsible to me. You pay for it you should be able to use it regardless of when. Imagine if the big four sold petrol the same way.

No worries here on BigTime.

When I had 24/7 access to CPIT, I could easily do 40-50Gb a night.

Yes, a night. Curse you, youtube+downloadhelper and revision3.com!

For me, speed isn't the most important thing, I'm more than happy to leave my computer on for weeks at a time, chugging away at stuff. Rainbow tables, F@H, downloads, you get the idea.

I have 100GB with orcon.
And of course I try to reach it each month but avoid going over as it gets very expensive.

If only I could find a pay by GB plan without a limit

Telecom is weird, 40GB is their highest cap. That is only useful if you don't get your multimedia from the internet.

I have Vodafone Ultimate ADSL2 which has a 20GB cap. It is only $30 more to double to 40 which isn't too bad. I never don't use it all because as a principle I want what I'm paying for, and as you say Vodafone won't reimburse me for the data i don't use.

Ive got a 20GB limit on my telecom plan. Im always having to watch my downloads/uploads, or im on dial-up within 10 days. My best result so far? 105GB in one month

I'd rather have speed than huge data caps.
My TC PDQ ADSL2+ connection lets me download a linux ISO in about 7-10 minutes (from a NZ server)
I pay $2.95 for 10GB blocks from TC as I use them, with the speed I'm getting thats a sweet price.

we have 40gb peak and 40gb off peak(2am-10am)my sons into on line gaming and we use all on peak and most off peak but their are no good high speed/high down load plans around and we are usually capped by week 3. The one that gets me is we are promised up to 2.5mb/s download but usually only get way less because there are too many on the system at peak times. Can I only serve half the people in my job because there are to many but still change all of them.

Another vote for Xnet (World Exchange. Like all ISP's they have had their problems but I still think they are the best because I pay $1/GB for what I use. So if go away for a month it is just the low base fee. No need to try and use my bandwidth up. Worry free. No I don't work for Xnet either :)

I have a 125GB limit (Orcon) which I often over-run - but the next step up (225GB) is much too high for my needs. So I happily pay $2 per extra GB.
I always "target" my limit, but often accidentally over-run it.

Good one, using the cap as a target. I usually come nowhere near my 10 GB cap unless I leave my internet radios on 24/7 for a few days.

It should be one charge as per telphone rental charge no caps at all

A 10GB cap works OK for me, except when I want to download a computer game, in which case I have to tread lightly, lest I reduce everyone to dial-up speeds.

That's where I like WXC you pay for what you use. 1.02 per GB isn't so bad if you don't use a heaps of data each month.

Hmmm. I have a 40G cap which I regularly go over. Telescum charge $20/Gb so It hurts like hell. I tried churning to TelstraClear but after three months all I had from them was a bill for services I didn't receive... Whats aman to do??

We have 20Gb shared between the three of us and it is rare to go over but we do try like you to use it all up simply because we have paid for it. There is a company in NZ that allows you to roll it over it is Trust power Kinect. A friend uses them and roughly every three months he reckons he can save a month. You do need to have your power and phone with them though and for us it would actually work out more expensive but for others it might not. I do think caps suck though and wish they could be scrapped as I think we would actually use less bandwidth

I'm lucky enough to be on Big Time where data caps are a thing of the past.

I think this part of the world and UK is an exception when it comes to data caps. In Europe data caps are very rare (except in UK which is not typical for Europe in any aspects...). Being from Sweden I was a bit surprised moving to NZ and discovered data caps as well as very slow and expensive internet. Sweden is similar to NZ (e.g. size, population) so it's a fair comparison. You are being ripped off!

I almost always go over my 80GB.

I pay for going over at the $2.95 per GB.

most months I do about 100GB.

so last year when I did 262GB in the month it cost quite a lot, total bill was over $500. :-(

as a big data user I have no issues with paying more than little data users but bigger plans are needed.

looking at rates in other parts of the world I should be able to get a 250GB package for about $150 or $180.
and that still leaves a good profit for the telco.

and don't get me started on 3G data costs...

My cap started at 3GB, then went to 5, then to 10, jumped to 20, and now its 40GB. My plan doesn't have any fees if you go over, so when it was 10GB I was using 25GB, and when it was 20GB I was reaching in the 40's, but now at 40GB, I hardly go over 50GB.

Data caps suck!

I regularly go over mine, My personal best was over 100GB in one month!

Pitty the bill was so high,