Best/cheapest broadband?

[gunrunner]

It won't slow down the broadband but from your point of view on the pc, it will seem slow because your processor is trying to do too much. Sounds like your cache is getting jammed up. Do you use a registry cleaner etc?

Yeah Registry cleaner it seems to be picking up the same stuff tho ?

[meteor]

I'm with vodafone... 20gb wired broadband, toll calls & home phone line for $90 a month, plus they gave me a free cell phone and sim card to join. Pretty happy overall.

[scracha]

Yeah Registry cleaner it seems to be picking up the same stuff tho ?

Cache jammed up....bhwhaha.

Top tip, uninstall all the registry cleaners...they're mostly shite. Uninstall all the toolbars, adaware, messengers, spybot, crapcleaners and crap like that. Just use one decent antivirus program (I personally like Norton 09/10 or Trend Internet Security)
Uninstall any programs you no longer use.
Remove your tempfiles (rd /q /s c:\windows\temp) and (rd /q /s "%temp%")
Remove unnecessary items from your startup menu
Remove unnecessary services (services.msc)
If you're using Internet explorer, erase all its temp files and reset the brower.
Remove excess startup registry items (regedit then the key is
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Run
&
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ).


Auslogics disk defrag is prety good.
To run semi decently, XP needs 512MB, Vista needs 1.5GB, Win 7 seems OK with 1GB.


There is a shed load of other stuff that can be attacked but that should speed up most PCs. Failing that, reinstall the OS might be the best option

[Gremlin]

How do you find Vodafone's support?
If you got a fucked line speed and have to get a tech out they were charging $200.00, mind you better than Orcon at $240.00.
Last time we had to get a Telecom tech out it was $80.00, though that may have changed when they realised they were too cheap compared to the others.
Going by our client's experiences with tech support I wouldn't touch Orcon with a ten foot barge pole, or Vodafone with an eight foot one.

Telecom seem to be the best of a bad bunch from this perspective.

You know as well as I do... they're all using Chorus etc. Telecom does seem to have better communications with them (wonder why )

The latest I had last week... number transferred to Orcon from Telecom, with a full LLU plan, on the day of hook up... mmm no dial tone, line rings but goes to a voicemail etc. Get it logged, tech comes out, oh, line wasn't plugged into exchange. WTF ARE THEY SMOKING