Xtra's new pricing plans

**GR81** · 16th October 2006, 11:11

Orcon have semi-released their intentions for high speed plans...
will be interesting to see their 'fair use policy' etc also
depends whether they run no cap plans or not i guess.

The new plans will be available to order from October the 26th. Existing Orcon customers may elect to change to any one of the new plans at no charge, otherwise you will continue on your existing plan.

http://www.orcon.net.nz/orcon_blog/o...s_coming_soon/

While we are putting the finishing touches on the plans, but there is a couple of things we can tell you about them:

* There will be full-speed plans: full-speed means that your connection speed is as fast is your telephone line will allow, up to a blazing 7.6Mbps down and 768Kbps up.
* You will be able to request to have interleaving on your phone line turned off. This may reduce the amount of latency on your broadband connection, which can improve things like online gaming and voice over IP (VOIP) services.

Those customers currently on 3.5Mbps/512Kbps plans will be automatically upgraded to full-speed/full-speed, and those on 3.5Mbps/128Kbps will be upgraded to full-speed/128Kbps.

**Cajun** · 16th October 2006, 11:33

doesn't say anything about people on there 256k/128k 40gb plan

**Wasp** · 16th October 2006, 12:18

* You will be able to request to have interleaving on your phone line turned off.

FUCK YEA! i love you orcon

who needs 7.6mbps anyways.... i want QUALITY not QUANTITY......

**Lil_Byte** · 16th October 2006, 12:33

It is all faster than a 2400bps modem which is when I remember starting going online and the "Interweb" wasn't available in NZ. The Bulletin Bord guys were the only market in town.

So put things in perspective a bit and give us all the bloody bandwidth we want for a bloody reasonable rate ... Cheating cloody ISPs

**sAsLEX** · 16th October 2006, 12:42

What I am annoyed at is when I first got my current connection I went wireless as 50 a month was unlimeted fast (230KBs on p2p stuff down) net. Now they have introduced a cap at 10 gigs which is poos and I am now looking for a new provider, and they all seem to be more expensive than when I joined my current one years ago.

Cheaper internet

Yeah right.

This new xtra plan looks the business though!

**Cajun** · 16th October 2006, 12:43

Originally Posted by Lil_Byte

It is all faster than a 2400bps modem which is when I remember starting going online and the "Interweb" wasn't available in NZ. The Bulletin Bord guys were the only market in town.

Mine was a 1200 baud modem on local akl bbs going back about 17 years ago now

**GR81** · 16th October 2006, 13:30

Originally Posted by Wasp

who needs 7.6mbps anyways.... i want QUALITY not QUANTITY......

amen brother!!!

**Wasp** · 16th October 2006, 13:47

aye, but thinking that over if theres going to be a data cap i'll hapily trade say 1mb for 10gbs.

soooo.... that makes 7.6mb&10gb - 1mb for interleaving - 1mb for extra 10gb = 5.6mb and 20gb cap for lets say $50 a month? insert tui ad here.....

**Fub@r** · 16th October 2006, 21:17

Originally Posted by GR81

Orcon have semi-released their intentions for high speed plans...
will be interesting to see their 'fair use policy' etc also
depends whether they run no cap plans or not i guess.

Wouldn't Orcon and all other ISP's have to honor the "fair use" policy. I can't see XTRA imposing it if they didn't have some way of making part of the wholsesale plans

**bane** · 16th October 2006, 21:25

Originally Posted by Cajun

Mine was a 1200 baud modem on local akl bbs going back about 17 years ago now

same for me. 1200 baud modem on a bbs called "Tinkerbell" back in the mid 80's.

How things have changed (not), 20 years later Im lucky to get 1.2kb/s on dial up....

**Wasp** · 17th October 2006, 07:16

Originally Posted by Fub@r

Wouldn't Orcon and all other ISP's have to honor the "fair use" policy. I can't see XTRA imposing it if they didn't have some way of making part of the wholsesale plans

If they don't I'd expect it to cost about $10 more than xtra's but thats ok by me - i'll happliy pay that.

**chanceyy** · 17th October 2006, 07:42

well along with poosy .... I just want BB .. but stuck to good old dial up .. til the end of the yr .. apparently ( tui ad)

& the new fibre optic runs over my damn lawn .. but i am on a mini exchange grrrrrrrrrr so until that is changed to the main exchange stuck in no mans land

love rural living .. just sucks for internet usage

**FzerozeroT** · 26th October 2006, 09:32

Today being the 26th of October you can now change your plan to one of the new plans,

for myself that means my new plan will go from a 10gig cap to unlimited and I will save $10 a month,

If you do not ring telecom (or fill out the online form) you will be on basically the same plan but with faster download speed and for the same cost.