Fricking internet companies

[slowpoke]

All the Aussie guys I work with tell me about their amazing internet deals just to boil my piss....faaaaaark, are we being ripped off BIG time! We've got a tiny country, should be a piece of wee to get reasonable cheap mobile/IT coverage compared to the vast wasteland that is Oz.....but noooooo, instead we're a small captured market that can be fleeced without mercy.

[avgas]

I am with Orcon. Good product, Good ideas.
Customer support as useful as waving thread in KB.

I do it for the nakedness.

[Oblivion]

We have been with telecom for donkeys. And by now, we know that there's one thing that they are good at beyond all others.

Excuses.

We've been waiting to get hooked up to ADSL 2+ for almost 2 years now. I emailed them once asking when this was gonna happen, since I took screenshots everytime it was postponed. And they literally said, "Oh, thats not our problem, Chorus is a division of Telecom, and we can't do anything about them."

How can you not do anything about a division of your own company?

[avgas]

All the Aussie guys I work with tell me about their amazing internet deals just to boil my piss....faaaaaark, are we being ripped off BIG time! We've got a tiny country, should be a piece of wee to get reasonable cheap mobile/IT coverage compared to the vast wasteland that is Oz.....but noooooo, instead we're a small captured market that can be fleeced without mercy.

What deals were they talking about? Most of my deals over there were "average".
Even with mobiles I found it a pain in the arse to get the phones jailbroken all the time.

[iYRe]

all the ISP's are much of a muchness..
I used to work in the network engineering departments of Ihug, telecom, Maxnet, and Callplus (slingshot).

Basically you just have to decide who is going to give you the best "package" - none of the big ISP's will give you decent tech support, and the smaller ones will give decent tech support, but not as many bundled services.

I use slingshot, not only because I worked there, but because I get naked ADSL (no telecom phone line), VOIP (with really good calling plans), and cheap data, with data banking. This means if I decide I want to download some stuff, I buy some extra data (say, 50Gb ($50 - cheaper by half than the other big isps)), and I dont use it, then it gets carried over - doesnt apply to the data that comes with your plan, just any additional.

Oh.. and downloads between 2am and 8am are free :P (so schedule yer torrents for then, if you are still doing that to your home pc.. criminals!)


So basically you decide what you want.. check out a few places, and who ever seems the best to you on the day gets your service.

(ps ihug and vodafone are the same place.. and they SUCK)

[avgas]

Anyone remember when slingshot was i4free?

[iYRe]

Anyone remember when slingshot was i4free?

yup.. they still have i4free customers lol (like 10 of em)

[NordieBoy]

Remember when Xtra usernames were "xtr******".

[iYRe]

Remember when Xtra usernames were "xtr******".

I was on the adsl project team - ahh, those were the days

[ICE180]

have a look here

Its run buy a guy as a hobbie who got pissed of trying to find an IP

http://ispfind.co.nz/

[ellipsis]

....40 bucks, 50Gb, Slingshot...

[NordieBoy]

I was on the adsl project team - ahh, those were the days

Dan's good old ADSL mailing list...
http://www.unixathome.org/adsl/

[imdying]

2Degrees suck ASS and their customer service is horrible.

What a load of shite

[thecharmed01]

What a load of shite

So explain to me why I'm changing away from them again?

[Padmei]

ah crap - now I've got too many choices again.
Bring back communism I say & we'll all be happy