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Hi,
My name is Joel, I am Australian, and I work for iiNet.
This morning, after a bit of a slog, Day[9] TV arrived on the iiNet Freezone. This was very exciting.
But lets back up a bit. I am a programmer. I have no particular involvement in what content comes on the Freezone, but in convincing the relevant people in the company I had the advantage of not making the mistakes I have seen others make here and else where.
I have seen many requests come through iiNet, and also a number if threads here and around the internet that all make the same mistake. Being good at or passionate about something doesn't make it marketable asset. Over the years, I have seen a number of requests, particularly from CS teams in particular for sponsorship. Most of them go along the lines of "We have won X tournaments and are currently ranked Y on Z ladder". A similar line of thinking is the calls to arms to spam ESPN or similar, saying how great SC2 is.
If your going to try and convince someone that you have something worth investing in, the largest part of that is not convincing them that it is good, it is convincing them that their money is best spent on whatever you are pitching, then something else they would normally invest in. Passion gives the drive to do something, but stats and figures gets the money.
Hopefully this foray into eSports is the first step on many for iiNet. There are a couple of other exciting in the works already, and I look forward to getting them off the ground
 
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nice to see an ISP other than bigpond and netspace enter the ESPORTS scene
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On April 21 2011 17:47 GTR wrote:
nice to see an ISP other than bigpond and netspace enter the ESPORTS scene
The ironic thing there is that iiNet actually owns Netspace 
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Nice! I'm on iinet as well. One thing would be great if they could offer a low latency connection to the usa
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On April 21 2011 18:00 Azzur wrote:
Nice! I'm on iinet as well. One thing would be great if they could offer a low latency connection to the usa
Let us just fire up our tugboats so we can tow Australia a bit closer 
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On April 21 2011 18:00 Azzur wrote:
Nice! I'm on iinet as well. One thing would be great if they could offer a low latency connection to the usa
unfortunately here, i'm on dodo (yes, laugh at me).
only because of ONE reason, they offer a capless plan.
can't wait for the day the better companies do this (wink wink iinet, internode).
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Thats awesome. I've been with iinet for years so I'm happy about this but sad at the same time as I unfortunately have to change to another isp soon.
Day9 & iinet what a great team.
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On April 21 2011 18:08 GTR wrote:Show nested quote +On April 21 2011 18:00 Azzur wrote:
Nice! I'm on iinet as well. One thing would be great if they could offer a low latency connection to the usa unfortunately here, i'm on dodo (yes, laugh at me). only because of ONE reason, they offer a capless plan. can't wait for the day the better companies do this (wink wink iinet, internode).
I wouldn't hold your breath. What you will see is plans will simply get bigger. People who clock up 7TB are simply too expensive.
So rather than have people who use less subsidize the really really heavy users, caps will continue to be more and more like unlimited for the majority of users, with a ceiling there for the small handful who would download insane amount. For example our 1 TB plan or even the smaller ones are essentially unlimited for the large majority of users, but we protect ourselves from people who download insane amounts.
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How is programming at iiNet out of curiosity? I've been with iiNet since they merged with Wantree, god knows how many years ago, and I'm about to finish my CS degree. Seems like a pretty badass place to work
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You sir, are a legend! That is bloody cool!
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On April 21 2011 19:09 stafu wrote:How is programming at iiNet out of curiosity? I've been with iiNet since they merged with Wantree, god knows how many years ago, and I'm about to finish my CS degree. Seems like a pretty badass place to work
Pretty good. Coming straight from uni it is really good. Since we have 100 odd developers on staff there are a lot of people to learn from.
Lots of crazy social events too
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