Broadband, Do you have it?

[SPman]

In Auckland I was on Slingshots 3G plan and it was fine - extra 3G for $5 if you went over your cap and downloads were always around 1.9 - 2.05!

Then I moved to the bush......

[hXc]

No one in NZ has broadband Internet connectivity. Just some people who will argue long and loud that they do.

Not entirely true, my friend. A computer nerd fella at school has 100mbit internet from this datacentre in Auckland. It's 12.5mb/s but...it's $150 a month.

[James Deuce]

Not entirely true, my friend. A computer nerd fella at school has 100mbit internet from this datacentre in Auckland. It's 12.5mb/s but...it's $150 a month.

I rest my case. It's entirely true. If he was using a service that required 20Mb/s of bandwidth, he's automatically failed.

[hXc]

I rest my case. It's entirely true. If he was using a service that required 20Mb/s of bandwidth, he's automatically failed.

Me no speak computer language.

[MSTRS:Me]

Me no speak computer language.

Simple maths - 12.5mB does not equal 20mB does not equal 100mB

[Mooch]

Have the xtra 3.5 meg down / 128 k up 10 gig plan with 10 meg mail storage
Cost $60

When I was in london ealier this year had

BT 2 meg download / 512k upload 20 gig plan with 2 gig mail storage
Cost $67 nz , however , if you downloaded from overseas you could actually get 2meg downloads unlike xtra which will often drops down to 512k or lower.

I'd love to know the NZ oversubscription ratio for international traffic.

[Grantasaurus]

Got the same XTRA plan... But Telecom pays for me.

Hooray for perks.....

[The Tazman]

Have the xtra 3.5 meg down / 128 k up 10 gig plan with 10 meg mail storage
Cost $60

When I was in london ealier this year had

BT 2 meg download / 512k upload 20 gig plan with 2 gig mail storage
Cost $67 nz , however , if you downloaded from overseas you could actually get 2meg downloads unlike xtra which will often drops down to 512k or lower.

I'd love to know the NZ oversubscription ratio for international traffic.

So they had a capped rate of 20GB per month over there? I was sure that some of the people I knew over there just used to leave there comps running all night down loading movies, music etc!!!

I see the upload is 4x faster than here, which is what a few have said in this thread that sucks here. Lets hope we get some improvements later in the month.

Once again thanks to all of you that have replied. I have found it quite interesting seeing what people have to say and the fact that so many of you are on BB. (although that is debateable after what was said in a couple of posts )

Thanks again for taking the time.

Taz