Telecom just accidentally my internet plan

[jono035]

I'm with Orcon on their Silver+ plan with a 50GB upgrade for 55GB a month. $80/mo for the base (net + phone) plan and $50/mo for the upgrade.

Good speeds, normally get 200-300kB/sec when downloading, good latencies whenever I've been doing anything that cares. OS updates come off a NZ server at 2MB/sec.

And they're owned by Kordia, which is government owned so you're directly supporting a kiwi organisation that has been instrumental in getting telecom to stop strangling the life out of NZ internet.

As a side note unlimited plans have always been, by and large, a relative disaster. All the ISP bandwidth is oversubscribed meaning for every megabit of incoming feed they have 10 customers that they sell that to as a megabit connection. Data transfer limits are a good way of ensuring that customers pay for what they use.

Edit: The RTA1320 router I had was good but apparently they are plagued with power-supply death issues. The Linksys AM300 that I have now works brilliantly, solid connections and stable line rates.

[Motig]

Well after getting Telecoms letter to change to Big Time I did. $60 is cheap for the amount of downloading I do plus the daughter still manages to play World of Warcraft nightly so its a lot cheaper than anything else I've seen. Plus they gave me a new Thomson wireless modem which has got to be better than my original Telecom D Link 302. ADSL 2 is meant to be in my area in December too.

[Blackshear]

Just switched to Big Time last night, and the P2P throttling and gaming really took a blow to the balls.

A few servers in CoD4 went from their usual 60-80 ping jumped to 200-odd between 6-9pm.

The p2p, refer to the picture.

Christopher, the P2P warrior.
Seed by day, download by night.

[jono035]

Just switched to Big Time last night, and the P2P throttling and gaming really took a blow to the balls.

A few servers in CoD4 went from their usual 60-80 ping jumped to 200-odd between 6-9pm.

The p2p, refer to the picture.

Christopher, the P2P warrior.
Seed by day, download by night.

Orcon for fucks sake.

I'm not going to keep saying it.

I downloaded the new breaking benjamin album at just over 1MB/sec yesterday morning. It took just over a minute.

[Blackshear]

Orcon for fucks sake.

I'm not going to keep saying it.

I downloaded the new breaking benjamin album at just over 1MB/sec yesterday morning. It took just over a minute.

Lol, boooooy.
I think yourself and I have different personal preferences.

[jono035]

Lol, boooooy.
I think yourself and I have different personal preferences.

Lol, I retract my statement, stay on any ISP other than mine

I had a 105GB cap for a while through Orcon but stopped maxing it out so downgraded to 55GB.

The problem with the unlimited cap plans was people expanding their usage to fit the plan rather than getting a plan that fits their usage. You need some form of user-pays there otherwise the over-subscription model breaks down very quickly.

[Blackshear]

Lol, I retract my statement, stay on any ISP other than mine

I had a 105GB cap for a while through Orcon but stopped maxing it out so downgraded to 55GB.

The problem with the unlimited cap plans was people expanding their usage to fit the plan rather than getting a plan that fits their usage. You need some form of user-pays there otherwise the over-subscription model breaks down very quickly.

Nah man, it's just opinions. No grumpy faces here.

I agree whole-heartedly with being 'pressured' into using the most of your unlimited plan, and I guess Telecom does now, too.

We shall see how much I can clock up in a month under the intense throttling.

Hell, I might even have to get some usenext going on.

[jono035]

Nah man, it's just opinions. No grumpy faces here.

I agree whole-heartedly with being 'pressured' into using the most of your unlimited plan, and I guess Telecom does now, too.

We shall see how much I can clock up in a month under the intense throttling.

Hell, I might even have to get some usenext going on.

Yeah, getting a decent external hard drive helps a lot too, you tend to have a lot more random stuff to get through that you get off friends and then you have your cap for things you really want to get. 105GB is still a ton of media unless you're downloading HD movies...

Then again, for all I know, you may be doing that and still churning through that much traffic

[Blackshear]

Yeah, getting a decent external hard drive helps a lot too, you tend to have a lot more random stuff to get through that you get off friends and then you have your cap for things you really want to get. 105GB is still a ton of media unless you're downloading HD movies...

Then again, for all I know, you may be doing that and still churning through that much traffic

720p or bust. 1080p isn't worth 2x the file size, IMO, especially 2-3m from the screen.
My small circle of friends don't offer much ha ha, all on <10GB caps and use it all on WoW and such, so really I have to do it all myself

But yeah mostly movies/doco's/programmes to my hearts contempt .

[jono035]

720p or bust. 1080p isn't worth 2x the file size, IMO, especially 2-3m from the screen.
My small circle of friends don't offer much ha ha, all on <10GB caps and use it all on WoW and such, so really I have to do it all myself

But yeah mostly movies/doco's/programmes to my hearts contempt .

lol, almost need a 2nd line that you all chip in towards... As long as you don't want to do anything latency requiring then you'll be fine though.

[scracha]

Over the last 2 months, 4 of my customers have been told by Telecom that they need to change their phone line to them to get Telecom broadband with them.

My vodyfone broadband has been very $hite the last few months. Connects at 7.5Mbps but never mind P2P, just general surfing is $hit.

[jono035]

Over the last 2 months, 4 of my customers have been told by Telecom that they need to change their phone line to them to get Telecom broadband with them.

My vodyfone broadband has been very $hite the last few months. Connects at 7.5Mbps but never mind P2P, just general surfing is $hit.

Yeah, I had this happen when I was on Ihug and they got bought by Vodafone. Basically went from great to dial-up in about a month.

[Gremlin]

Been on Big Time since the beginning of October.

Can't complain really. We're so far away from the exchange, on shit phone lines etc, that the speed is pretty constant throughout the day. Normally sitting at 150-200 KB/sec

Not too fussed, but moving from 10GB a month and constantly hitting dial up (which is REALLY bad) to not caring, and downloading whatever is needed (3.7GB last night) is really useful

[cambridgedan]

Same. Fuckin' jews, I think I'm swapping to Orcon or Xnet, just have to decide which.

im on xnet at the moment and they have been great

[jono035]

im on xnet at the moment and they have been great

Xnet are another good ISP, I have a couple of friends on them and they're pretty happy with transfer speeds and latencies.

I'm still behind Orcon for being such a solid force against the recent draconian copyright bullshit that was proposed. If it wasn't for Orcon, you'd be getting your net cut off for even being accused of downloading copyrighted content...