Xtra's free Internet downgrade

[Grisdale]

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that once you have been "Upgraded" you internet goes a hell of a lot slower? I play games online at night they lag like crap now since ive been upgraded

[bugjuice]

I got upgraded 2 weeks after my ISP said they would, I then slammed face-first into the last of my 1gb cap.. so now I'm on 64kpbs until I get billed.

whoop-de-fucking-do.

[Grisdale]

hahaha yeah they upgraded the speed but left the small caps so now you can use your cap in 2 hours

[GR81]

they probably allocate their bandwidth now.
more for surfing and less for gaming and leeching.
http://www.orcon.net.nz/help/status/ <- scroll down a lil till you see the pie graph.
you're not really being 'upgraded either' , its more 'sideways-grading' lol

[Smorg]

ISP Pixel megabyte processor download torrent??? Wait upload motherboard

[sAsLEX]

I then slammed face-first into the last of my 1gb cap.. billed.

over 70 gig last month.......prob more this......oh and 55 dollar.......I love having my old plan!

[GR81]

over 70 gig last month.......prob more this......oh and 55 dollar.......I love having my old plan!

who are you with?
they give you no choice but to move to a new plan i thought?

[sAsLEX]

who are you with?
they give you no choice but to move to a new plan i thought?

not telecom, and their current plans aint that flash but I am still on the old no qouta bit, and good speeds as well

[GR81]

im loving downloading at 350kbps but not being capped at 10Gb

[WINJA]

bunch of cunts , i was capped 2 days after getting conected , 1 gb is not many porno movies

[Coyote]

I've been upgraded and it's pretty sweet. A typical song takes 1-2 minutes to download. Although after all this hype we've got from telecom, I expected the speed to have been more than doubled

[thehollowmen]

Most of the gaming problems in NZ seems to be caused by the asymetry between upload and download speed.

so by making the gap bigger they just make shit worse.

I can't even update my website any more without manually throttling my download speed.

[Cookie]

[...]so now I'm on 64kpbs until I get billed.

whoop-de-fucking-do.[...]

Same here. It sucks big time. I think they know what impact it will be having.

Bastards. If Auntie Helen can sort this one out, then that will be ONE useful thing she has done this year.

[MOTOXXX]

yea fucking nz isp's.
telstra rang me and told me that national traffic will no longer be charged at 10%. now at full rate.
I asked them what about from cable to cable on your own network as it doesnt cost them anything. they said its still the same.

there all wankers.

[kickingzebra]

I'm starting my own telecommunications company using drawings I stole off Marmoot... all you need to connect to my exchange is a cup, and several metres of string... You may experience quality loss if too far from the exchange....