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    sAsLEX, do you mean to say, you have no cap for $55 a month?

    Do tell! With whom?
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    Quote Originally Posted by bobsmith
    sAsLEX, do you mean to say, you have no cap for $55 a month?

    Do tell! With whom?
    They wont do your area, but I signed up ages ago when no caps were a relative norm and have kept on the same contract, well they sent out a letter saying something about them implementing a cap but it has never happened

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    Xtra Broadband here... 10gig plan....

    Been with them for about a year and a half and never had any problems.

    I recommend them because they are the biggest and anyone else (except wireless and Telstra cable) are only reselling Telecom's product (for now) anyway. They have the largest helpdesk in NZ and if you get a good rep who know's their stuff... problems get sorted really fast.

    Oh and anyone who thinks that the LLU will make Broadband cheaper is kidding themselves. When other ISP's do get to install their own hardware in the Telecom exchanges, who do you think is going to pay for that rather expensive equipment?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alive
    Oh and anyone who thinks that the LLU will make Broadband cheaper is kidding themselves. When other ISP's do get to install their own hardware in the Telecom exchanges, who do you think is going to pay for that rather expensive equipment?
    Hmmmm, I hear this term 'expensive equipment' thrown round a lot! Seems to be a bit of a black hole excuse if you ask me.

    24 Port ADSL2 DSLAM $3000 US, (DSLAM is the box where your ADSL connection terminates at the exchange), that’s NZ$200 per customer, http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=...AM&btnG=Search

    Of course there’s also routers, switches and fibre optic backbones etc to account for, but spread out over a few thousand customers they're not THAT expensive.

    Someone please enlighten us on the TCO of a standard exchange, I think we'd all be pleasantly surprised!


    P.S. If your broadband’s going slow read this, http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,...a11275,00.html telecom currently forces ISP’s to use overpriced and outdated ATM connections for all UBS ADSL traffic backhaul (data going from the exchange to the ISP) rather than letting them use ultra cheap fibre optic connections, hence why the new Faster Cheaper Broadband is actually slower and more expensive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by r4q2
    Been thinking about gettin broadband, but most seem like a have, ie the low end accounts have slow speed, small caps etc.

    ihug look like the go, full speed on all accounts.

    Who is your ISP, and would you recommend them?

    The only real reason I want broadband is so I can stream the GP, SBK an stuff like that.

    Cheers Paul D.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sAsLEX
    They wont do your area, but I signed up ages ago when no caps were a relative norm and have kept on the same contract, well they sent out a letter saying something about them implementing a cap but it has never happened
    Damn, I used to live in the shore and never saw that plan. though that was a couple of years ago I suppose.
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    One of the guys at my work uses world exchange.

    http://www.wxc.co.nz/

    looks like a good deal and i think they give you a static ip address too

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    Got Xtra up and running today

    Can't complain about Xtra's service. Registered last week, days later moden arrived on doorstep. They said I would be connected yesterday but nothing seemed to work last night. So tried again half an hour ago with the self install disk, piece of cake so no complaints.
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    has anyone here used xtra broadband with a mac, thinking of changing over and want to know anyones experience of with telecom and apples!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dawnrazor
    has anyone here used xtra broadband with a mac, thinking of changing over and want to know anyones experience of with telecom and apples!
    yep - i'm a mac xtra adsl user.
    try and get an ethernet modem, not sure if there is a driver for the USB one usually supplied.
    easy and reliable in the 5 years i've been using it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Badcat
    yep - i'm a mac xtra adsl user.
    try and get an ethernet modem, not sure if there is a driver for the USB one usually supplied.
    easy and reliable in the 5 years i've been using it.
    k
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    Quote Originally Posted by Badcat
    yep - i'm a mac xtra adsl user.
    try and get an ethernet modem, not sure if there is a driver for the USB one usually supplied.
    easy and reliable in the 5 years i've been using it.
    k
    No usb drivers for mac, get an ethernet modem (has a Network port OR Network port + USB port, not USB port only), xtra only supply ethernet modems anyway so your sorted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sAsLEX
    As in pic, no cap 55 incl gst a month!

    test your speed for comparison at http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/index.php?module=Speedtest
    So who are you with?? 55incl a month sounds good for those speeds. Just tested my 2gb telecom connection and only got 961kbps. with 154 upload.

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    Broadband?
    All I can have is a carrier pigeon that takes 2 bits at a time 19km to the exchange, then flies back again, stopping for a feed on the way. I asked Telecon if I could have 2 pigeons, but they said "No - not for at least five years".
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    Quote Originally Posted by What?
    Broadband?
    All I can have is a carrier pigeon that takes 2 bits at a time 19km to the exchange, then flies back again, stopping for a feed on the way. I asked Telecon if I could have 2 pigeons, but they said "No - not for at least five years".
    good 1 i like it but agrees whay broadband
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