[14:37] <choel> I'm new to NZ. and I'm trying to find the best ISP. What I noticed here is that all ISP got a roof. I there any ISP that dosen't got a roof of data traffic. ?
[14:51] <ojwb> choel: as far as I'm aware, you either have a cap, or you pay for the data you use
[14:52] <ojwb> I think it's because of the higher costs of international bandwidth compared to most other places
[15:00] <choel> we'll either way. it's odd. europe and usa doesen't have it.
[15:00] <choel> so why is it so expensive here?
[15:11] <ojwb> there's a lot of undersea cable to get to pretty much anywhere
[15:12] <ojwb> which isn't true in the US or Europe
[15:12] <ojwb> most of the UK ones actually have a "fair use" limit if you look into the details, but it's pretty high
[15:12] <ojwb> not sure about other countries
[15:13] <ojwb> unmetered national traffic used to offered by some ISPs, but that seems to have died out sadly
[15:14] <ojwb> I guess it's potentially confusing that a ".nz" website could be hosted overseas, so not count as national traffic
[15:24] <choel> A cable from NC to Asia isnät longer from europe to the states.
[15:24] <choel> isn't
[15:24] <choel> And even so..... satelites...
[15:25] <choel> just strangely more expensive here.