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are you on go large? if so, prepare to go slow.
international websites (included this forum) are painfully slow, slower than dialup during peak hours. in fact, you might have trouble accessing NZ sites like trademe. it's not xtra's best effort, but apparantly they're onto the problems and it will get better.

I ditched Xtra and went with Telstra. Prior to unleashing I have always had a good connection, 3.5mbps, with around 80 ping to NZ gaming servers.

After being "Go Larged" (apparently full download and 128k upload) instead of 3.5 mbps download speed I only got 1.5 if I was lucky, and gaming pings were up to 150 - 300.

I then tried their Pro plan (full up and down). My d/l speed was back up around 6.0 mbps, upload about 600kbps. Pings to gaming servers were back to 80ish. This was good news but I wasn't happy with (aka allowed) to spend $80 per month for internet.

Knowing what my line was capable of I saw Telstra were offering full up and down for less than I was paying with my old Telecom Adventure plan ($56 p/m), AND they will turn off interleaving if you ask (interleaving is like error correction, but it increases latency for data consistency = higher pings = issues when playing FPS games, even IL2).

I am now with Telstra PDQ. I am getting 5-6mbps download and 600kps upload. My ping to gaming servers is now 30 - 60 (!!!)

Now I hear Telecom are being looked into under the Fair Trading Act provisions.

If anyone's interested there are a few threads on the NZ PC World Forum and the NZ Battlefield Forum

It does look as if Telecom are sorting things out, but their attitude convinced me to change.

b***h arse c**t