Ferkin Xtra

[Groins_NZ]

Just to add... thumbs up for Paradise from me too - dialup anyway.

Why?
Haven't been dropped since... I can't remember when.
Pricing plans when they first came online were competitive and haven't changed too much over the years... no surcharge surprises.
Good enough Help Desk.

Nevertheless, I do lust for high speed Internet access having lived with my father for a period of time while studying who graciously shared his satellite and ADSL connections.... mmmmmmmmmmm. Quite cool downloading a file that comes off the satellite at 3.5Mbps and listening to your hard drive 'tick tick ticking' away, speedily writing the data to disk.... mmmmmmmm [more lustful thoughts]

[Zapf]

me being sort of being around the IT / ISP sector in NZ. I can tell you this much, Telecom is out to cripple the other ISP's business as much as possible so that if unbundling was ever put in place they won't be much of a threat.

They are just paying lip service to most of the demands made earlier this year to have a regulated / whole sale model. I for one has been steaming trying to work with them.

FYI in Hong Kong. for $50 NZD a month you can get a 8Mbps connection with basiclly unlimited traffic. And what do you get thru crappy Telecom?

[moko]

What really gets me is they do it deliberately (and a whole bunch of other shit too) to 'encourage you' to got to broadband... Fair pisses me off!

Paul N

I`ve heard that so many times Paul............what does help though is to keep your p.c. clean,lean and mean,regularly delete your temp e-mail cache,keep it de-fragged and use free software like Easycleaner and Ad-aware to clean the crap off.Use Google to find these,first time I ran Ad-aware I found 600 (yes SIX HUNDRED) bits of spyware on my system,all using up space,resources and whatever.Your p.c. is like your bike,ignore regular maintenance and it wont work as well as it should.I know what you`re saying,and agree, about the bastards giving a shit service while offering you broadband but keep your system clear and it`ll certainly run better.

[moko]

me being sort of being around the IT / ISP sector in NZ. I can tell you this much, Telecom is out to cripple the other ISP's business as much as possible so that if unbundling was ever put in place they won't be much of a threat.

They are just paying lip service to most of the demands made earlier this year to have a regulated / whole sale model. I for one has been steaming trying to work with them.

FYI in Hong Kong. for $50 NZD a month you can get a 8Mbps connection with basiclly unlimited traffic. And what do you get thru crappy Telecom?

Same problem in the U.k. Zapf,loads of companies now really stuffing British Telecom on call prices and internet provision but they still own all the lines so hardly a level playing field,if it were phone bills and internet access charges would nose-dive.As in many other cases we`re told that Telecoms is a free market and free of government interference,total bullshit,they talk about competition while still protecting BT`s monopoly of the phone-lines.

[Blakamin]

Mac's are not a digital Nirvana and you will find that out. If you are doing desktop publishing, digital pre-press, or graphic design a Mac is massively superior to a PC, purely because of an extended history of software support.

And audio software (pro-tools, logic etc..)
that would be the only reason I'd ever buy a system with a 1 button mouse!
now Adobe have got their shit sorted......
a mate of mine is a graphic designer/pre-press/typesetter etc, and now he has got illustrator, photoshop, indesign and all that high-end graphics shit on his PC, he loves it... cheaper for parts and shit!!!