Best ISP?

[Mikkel]

Don't hold your breath, mate. Much later this year, I reckon....

Hold my breath... now there's an idea! At least the pain would disappear sooner.

And yes, I know it doesn't work that way unless you get someone to hold your breath for you.

[gav]

I was on Telecom GoLarge plan and switched to Ihug's latest deal, I pay $20 for 20GB per month, I'd prefer a bigger limit but its cheap enough, doesnt cost extra if you go over your limit just lose speed. Torrents can kill it, so pays to be careful and try and manage downloads as closely as possible. I pay about $76 a month for my landline @ $36, $20 for unlimited tolls and $20 internet.

[rwh]

You can say that again. I've just moved back from Tokyo where internet plans mostly start at 8Mbps and go up to 100Mbps fibre-optic lines, for around NZ$45/month. It is fast fast fast, and as far as I know there have never been caps of any type whatsoever. The connection NEVER drops out.

It has been like that for the last 4 years or so now, I guess it's just due to healthy competition for customers. At one point you could go down the street and find them handing out broadband modems, then go around the corner and find another company doing the same thing.

I think NZers are being shafted.

2 significant differences between Tokyo and NZ spring to mind.

The population lives much closer together - you don't have to dig up so much road to serve the same number of people. Digging up roads is expensive.

The Japanese presumably mostly speak Japanese, and want content predominantly in Japanese ... which is predominantly located in Japan. Hence they don't need to spend such a high proportion of their money on expensive undersea cables and satellite links.

That's not to say Telecom aren't ripping us off.

Richard

[bugjuice]

Well, then they should get their asses in gear and do some field testing around Christchurch!

TelstraClear can offer raw cable in most parts of Chch, can't they?

That's not to say Telecom aren't ripping us off.

oh, they really really are, don't kid yourself.

[homer]

Im wondering which ISP you guys use and how good they are price wise and the amount of data you are allowed.

Im currently with IHUG and pay $60 a month for unlimited data but......you can only use 500mb every 3 days or they will cut your download rate by half so this means I can hardly download a thing which means the uncapped data ends up becoming quite pointless.
So Im after something around 30-50GB per month with no retarded 500mb cap on it.

Suggestions??

You pay 60 a month for unlimited ,but if you use more than 500mb in 3 days you get the chop

Thats a real good plan
and yes im being scarcastic

sounds like a telecom go large plan of sorts

i have telstra clear and pay 30 a month and pay an additional 2.95 per gb
all at full speed
so if i used say 5 gb in a day itll cost 15 dollars

but we use about 3gb a month


Id actually have them for false advertising

[cheese]

Xnet, they are pretty good.

[Dargor]

2 significant differences between Tokyo and NZ spring to mind.

That's not to say Telecom aren't ripping us off.

Richard

Yea the struggle with international traffic is understandable (Cut cables anyone).(not to say they aren't ripping us off.)
But they dont encourage local traffic, which increases international traffic. This is not understandable.
I recall that this site is run overseas because its cheaper. While most of the users of this site are from NZ. This causes more unneccecary international traffic.

Maybe increased local traffic would just move the point of lag to somewhere less excusable than the middle of the ocean.
Anyone have any stats about our wee cable to america.

Anyway back on topic, im with telecoms go large. Its not good. Most of the day i get <20kBps but it usualy gets >200kBps by 3am. So i still pull ~50GB a month if theres good sci-fi.

[Mikkel]

TelstraClear can offer raw cable in most parts of Chch, can't they?

Yes they can... But, of course, the coverage ends just below our hill.

[Oldfulla]

just joined up with xnet, really painless compared with my last connection that was with slingshot. Really fast connection time also. It took 3 days from the time of the phone call saying I want a conection to surfing the net with xnet, compared with 3weeks with slingshot.

Must say also we here in NZ must be at least 5yrs behind the rest of the developed world in terms of internet connections. I came back from Sweden at the begining of 2003 and I still can't a net connection now in NZ that is as good as what I was getting over there in 2003. No silly data caps over there also.


my 2 cents worth.

oldfulla

[Trouser]

You pay 60 a month for unlimited ,but if you use more than 500mb in 3 days you get the chop

Thats a real good plan
and yes im being scarcastic

Id actually have them for false advertising

Looks like you can use 2gb per day and a maximum of 20gb per month. If you use over 2gb in a day they will squeeze you down to 64k for the whole next day.

Tehy call if the 'fair use' plan now