What ISP do you use and if its Dialup or Broadband! I am guessing the majority of users will say XTRA for broadband? am I right?
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by toprob » Tue May 09, 2006 9:42 pm
I've been thinking of putting a poll on my site, but it may be better here.
I've used Telstra cable until last year when I shifted out of their coverage area. I've been getting by with dial-up but just signed up with IHUG for their Light broadband plan. I don't think I'd ever purposefully choose Telecom:)
I've used Telstra cable until last year when I shifted out of their coverage area. I've been getting by with dial-up but just signed up with IHUG for their Light broadband plan. I don't think I'd ever purposefully choose Telecom:)
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by Charl » Wed May 10, 2006 8:36 am
Good question.
I was on ihug's satellite service which is great for rural users. They sold to an outfit in Oz and the service fell over.
The district got together and absolutely bombarded Telecom with requests for broadband service.
We now have 2 MBit/s broadband from Xtra.
The ads promise 3.5 Mbit/s any day now.
There is 10 Mbit/s locked up in the Telecom business plan which says:
Drip feed your customers when they squeal loudly enough, and call it progress.
Unbundling that oligarchy is going to bring us into the 21st century.
I can't live without broadband, and don't blink at downloading a 100 MB file.
Regards
Charl
I was on ihug's satellite service which is great for rural users. They sold to an outfit in Oz and the service fell over.
The district got together and absolutely bombarded Telecom with requests for broadband service.
We now have 2 MBit/s broadband from Xtra.
The ads promise 3.5 Mbit/s any day now.
There is 10 Mbit/s locked up in the Telecom business plan which says:
Drip feed your customers when they squeal loudly enough, and call it progress.
Unbundling that oligarchy is going to bring us into the 21st century.
I can't live without broadband, and don't blink at downloading a 100 MB file.
Regards
Charl
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by vonduck1 » Wed May 10, 2006 12:36 pm
I too am still with Bordernet (Oz crowd that bought out Ihug) and they indeed suck!
Telecom still keep saying no braodband service out here (Orini) unless i get a petition going with all the neighbours up the street signing it. I have better things to do with my time than do Telecoms work for them.
As soon as we have FO cables in place i will flick Bordernet as soon as i can. I also have dial-up using World-Net, they are good outfit so far. Satelite tends to be a bit vascilious in its operation depending on the weather. At least dial up is safe!
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Telecom still keep saying no braodband service out here (Orini) unless i get a petition going with all the neighbours up the street signing it. I have better things to do with my time than do Telecoms work for them.
As soon as we have FO cables in place i will flick Bordernet as soon as i can. I also have dial-up using World-Net, they are good outfit so far. Satelite tends to be a bit vascilious in its operation depending on the weather. At least dial up is safe!
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by toprob » Fri May 12, 2006 1:58 pm
The fact is a lot of people went with Xtra broadband because it was either the only (DSL) choice, or it was easier to arrange. Back in the old days (5 years ago...) I was using Ihug dialup, which was a reasonably cheap option. The free webpage (10MB, from memory) was the start of the Windowlight site.
I graduated to Ihug Ultra using the Sugarloaf transmitter. This was really great, and good value at the time, although it got expensive when I decided we needed another phone line. The uplink through a modem was the downside. The speed was great though, the limiting factor was the modem packet acknowlegement.
When we shifted to St Martins we went with Saturn TV and cable net, so I was able to side-step Telecom again. Cable is another good choice if you can get it.
For the past year I've been living -- if you can call it that -- with dialup, but just signed up for Ihug broadband, so here I am back with Ihug. I had a $50 budget, and the deciding factor was data allowance -- 5GB from Xtra, 5GB peak/10GB off-peak from Ihug.
I'm not up and running yet, but I'll let you all know how I get on. I can't wait to get back onto Xbox Live...
Plus I get a 30MB website with Ihug, I've got a few ideas what to do with it, too!
I graduated to Ihug Ultra using the Sugarloaf transmitter. This was really great, and good value at the time, although it got expensive when I decided we needed another phone line. The uplink through a modem was the downside. The speed was great though, the limiting factor was the modem packet acknowlegement.
When we shifted to St Martins we went with Saturn TV and cable net, so I was able to side-step Telecom again. Cable is another good choice if you can get it.
For the past year I've been living -- if you can call it that -- with dialup, but just signed up for Ihug broadband, so here I am back with Ihug. I had a $50 budget, and the deciding factor was data allowance -- 5GB from Xtra, 5GB peak/10GB off-peak from Ihug.
I'm not up and running yet, but I'll let you all know how I get on. I can't wait to get back onto Xbox Live...
Plus I get a 30MB website with Ihug, I've got a few ideas what to do with it, too!
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by toprob » Fri May 19, 2006 5:02 pm
I said I'd get back with how my Ihug broadband installation went.
It took 9 days from my order to up and running, they'd quoted up to 3 weeks, so I'm pleased with that.
I have yet to get a confirmation email that the line is enabled, but that didn't stop me plugging it in:)
Installation is simple. Plug in the router, turn it on, configure the network connection (manually, but took 2 minutes) and log on. The supplied 2 metre ethernet cable is a bit piddly, so I needed to buy a longer cable.
I didn't know what to expect, because there are always a million niggles on the newsgroups -- why-am-I-getting-dialup-speeds etc -- but so far its pretty zippy. My first test was a 200MB Tif from LINZ, which took 8 minutes, 25MB/min. That's about full speed on my 3.5Mb plan. Would've taken 8 days on dial-up...
I understand that Ihug have missed out on the latest DSL outage this week, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I think I've made a good choice, but time will tell.
It took 9 days from my order to up and running, they'd quoted up to 3 weeks, so I'm pleased with that.
I have yet to get a confirmation email that the line is enabled, but that didn't stop me plugging it in:)
Installation is simple. Plug in the router, turn it on, configure the network connection (manually, but took 2 minutes) and log on. The supplied 2 metre ethernet cable is a bit piddly, so I needed to buy a longer cable.
I didn't know what to expect, because there are always a million niggles on the newsgroups -- why-am-I-getting-dialup-speeds etc -- but so far its pretty zippy. My first test was a 200MB Tif from LINZ, which took 8 minutes, 25MB/min. That's about full speed on my 3.5Mb plan. Would've taken 8 days on dial-up...
I understand that Ihug have missed out on the latest DSL outage this week, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I think I've made a good choice, but time will tell.
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by Blackmagic » Fri May 19, 2006 6:06 pm
Your complaining about a 3 metre ethernet cable 
Telecom only supplied a 1 metre cable 
I would say you made a good choice having been with Ihug myself, they operate on a differant system to Telecom and dont seem to get the problems that Telecom have had. Which is strange as the share the network that the phone line uses?
When the new years day crashed occured Ihug was able to conect but any associated with Telecom were unable. Easy to tell who those ISPs are as they have there packages supplied via Telecom. Inspire, actrix and slingshot of all people are restrained by a telecom connection. After this last debuckle with telecom and a impending house move I pretty much am determined not to renew with telecom.
Telecom only supplied a 1 metre cable I would say you made a good choice having been with Ihug myself, they operate on a differant system to Telecom and dont seem to get the problems that Telecom have had. Which is strange as the share the network that the phone line uses?
When the new years day crashed occured Ihug was able to conect but any associated with Telecom were unable. Easy to tell who those ISPs are as they have there packages supplied via Telecom. Inspire, actrix and slingshot of all people are restrained by a telecom connection. After this last debuckle with telecom and a impending house move I pretty much am determined not to renew with telecom.
- Blackmagic
by Jimmy » Sat Nov 04, 2006 11:14 am
We have had a nothor phone line put it in, its great 
I nolonger have to get of the net for if someone wants to make a call, yes its still 56k but it aint really that bad seeing cable is still up around 30buks (unless I want a 1gb cap haha)
although last mounth we almost went over the 150hour limit
and we were on holiday for 2weeks lol god help me this mounth...
James
I nolonger have to get of the net for if someone wants to make a call, yes its still 56k but it aint really that bad seeing cable is still up around 30buks (unless I want a 1gb cap haha)
although last mounth we almost went over the 150hour limit
and we were on holiday for 2weeks lol god help me this mounth... James
- Jimmy
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