isp choices 56k dial up

[WINJA]

im having endless troubles with kiwi on line , im considering slingshot or orcon but i need some input . i had good consistent speed with no hangups on xtra but its expensive , i dont want adsl at the moment , help this pewtertard with advice please.
secondly is anyone else having problems with kiwionline ? im having trouble getting connected in the evening and when i do its very slow

[steved]

Paradise at $15/month works well for me.

[Indiana_Jones]

My nets acting up at the moment, I'm on xtra dial-up. Though it might be my computer, but it also happens to the laptop, so I donno. Look I just went of now :p

-Indy

[Flyingpony]

Paradise at $15/month works well for me.
2nd that.

You'll also get a dollar discount if your homeline is with TelestraClear.

I've never had troubles connecting, getting disconnected or general network performance speed - always the same. Rather boring when you think about it, so to throw spice into it, once in a hundred blue moons the odd email gets lost or arrives/dispatches several days after arriving/sending. This should be improved with all the recent email servers they added into the system.

[N4CR]

Yeah go paradise. Xtra/telescum dialup (what I use currently) is not any more reliable than other providers (using 5 different modems... from top of the line to crap ones, and new lines etc) so just go for paradise.

Or wait for the new jetstream that Telstra has been allowed to roll out. Labour said f*** you telecom and gave them [telstra] access. Sweet....!

[Holy Roller]

I've been with Maxnet for nearly 10 years and maybe had a problem twice in that time. They are really helpful and I am reluctant to leave. We have dail up at home and broadband at the shop.
Check them out
http://www.maxnet.co.nz/

[Brian d marge]

There is freeware out there that will tell you how many people are qued for your server isp and line losses and all that stuff I had to look into it as when we first upgraded our broadband from 40 to 100 ..IT was crap,,,dropping connections at nite , not connecting etc
I kept a log and everytime it crashed I checked how many people were using and the line connection, packet loss ( cut and pasted the results into a calender)
Still dont know what 1/2 of it means ...( I didnt even know there was an national and international speed )

Anyway the long and short of this was ,,when I complained for the last time via the head honcho ,,I was able to back up my insults with facts ,,,
Suddenly... there has been NO problem my end ,,,problems just dissapeared over nite ...strange tha...t as my computer hasnt changed ,,,*they swore blind it was my fault *

Good luck fella, There needs to be a boot put up the backside of the telescum business in NZ

Stephen

[Posh Tourer :P]

Paradise is good....

[Colapop]

Post a poll - Paradise is a winner for me though too. I was on dial up for 2 years and just switched to adsl before xmas - used up my 4 gig in about 2 weeks! May need 10 from here on...

[Teflon]

I have always used orcon for dial-up and havn't had any probs. you also get two connection numbers to use.

[Sniper]

Paradise is good, but I was with slingshot dial up for a while and didn't have any problems.

[Beemer]

I'm with Paradise, just gone on to the 250 hours/$20 plan as I occasionally went just over the 150 hours/$15 and it would cost me an extra $16 so I figured it was cheaper to pay an extra $5 a month and never have to worry again!

Pretty good service and I find their help desk exactly that - helpful. We get a few hang-ups on the line but that is more than likely due to the crap rural Telecom connection we have than Paradise.

Since they had their big problem with email over Christmas (overload of spam) I am getting far fewer spam emails - and most aren't offering viagra! With Xtra I used to get some of the most pornographic spam you could imagine - but it was instantly recognisable as the subject line would spell it out in graphic detail!

[Colapop]

Yeah go paradise. Xtra/telescum dialup (what I use currently) is not any more reliable than other providers (using 5 different modems... from top of the line to crap ones, and new lines etc) so just go for paradise.

Or wait for the new jetstream that Telstra has been allowed to roll out. Labour said f*** you telecom and gave them [telstra] access. Sweet....!
Tell me more about Telstra Jetstream? Is it the same as Paradise ADSL?
I'm paying $135/month for phone/internet/Saturn TV bundle. That's 4gig/month traffic. probably double that this month.

[Matt Bleck]

I've had no problems with Slingshot....

[Swoop]

Paradise $15- plan.
Good connection, etc, etc...

[Swoop]

WTF!!!

Winja - what colour did you paint you roof???:shit: :shit: :shit: :shit: :shit:

[Crazy Steve]

Back to Xtra...You know you love Telecom....

And I still have shares....So more $$$$ For me:shifty:

[The_Dover]

Just get DSL you tight prick. One extra swallow on your night job should cover it.

[WINJA]

WTF!!!

Winja - what colour did you paint you roof???:shit: :shit: :shit: :shit: :shit:
RED LIKE A FIRE ENGINE

[LXS]

ive had no troubles with Quicksilver in the two years I've been with them, before that had good old xtra, they were good too.

Quicksilver, $22.95 a month.

www.quicksilver.net.nz

[pyrocam]

pyrocam says orcon for sure

[StoneChucker]

My belief is that, like most things, you get what you pay for. Most top isp's have a similar going rate. I'm on ihug, and have no problems with it at all. It is one of the more expensive options (I'm on 56K dialup), but you get good service aswell.

Get free, or really cheap internet access, and e-mail for that matter, and you also get things like overloaded lines/too many clients (making access much slower, some dialup issues, getting booted off, your modem doing nothing for a few seconds then resuming d/l), spam in your e-mail, etc...

[Posh Tourer :P]

Get free, or really cheap internet access, and e-mail for that matter, and you also get things like overloaded lines/too many clients (making access much slower, some dialup issues, getting booted off, your modem doing nothing for a few seconds then resuming d/l), spam in your e-mail, etc...

On the other hand, if you are with Xtra you get the best of both worlds - overloading at peak times, plus expensivity

[Swoop]

On the other hand, if you are with Xtra you get the best of both worlds - overloading at peak times, plus expensivity
..... AND you have the pleasure of knowing your hard earned $$$'s are going overseas to telescum's owners......:weird:

[N4CR]

Tell me more about Telstra Jetstream? Is it the same as Paradise ADSL?
I'm paying $135/month for phone/internet/Saturn TV bundle. That's 4gig/month traffic. probably double that this month.

It is yet to come out, if you still have fridays harold there is a mention about it in the buisness section or else the normal one, go look! Basically it said that they wanted unlimited speeds and data caps for $27 a month sold to telstra which would make something like $40 for the connection at unlimited fullspeed but now it is just 256k and 2mbit for the same price, still not inline with OECD regulations or something (from memory). Better than what we had but still shieet.