NZ Internet options

**Disco Dan** · 22nd September 2011, 14:33

Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve

Think your looking in the wrong place...
I'm 69$ naked

or there abouts 40GB limit, but thats the big thing I don't like about TC "we won't slow your internet when you hit ya cap" yea ya just charge me more

after sending the "your at 80%" email after I've breached 100% & the "your've run out" the day after

stupid delayed updating!!!
So now I manually check it saves the extra costs

Sounds like a good little earner for TC !

**Edbear** · 22nd September 2011, 14:33

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

Sounds good, but that is still a lot of money to be paying each month.

Just for comparison, a relative in UK pays 12 pounds a month for phone and unlimited full speed broadband and includes free calling to over 10 countries.

Maybe, but we're not in the UK, unfortunately, with all those countries within a stonesthrow... Much bigger market there.

Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve

Think your looking in the wrong place...
I'm 69$ naked

or there abouts 40GB limit, but thats the big thing I don't like about TC "we won't slow your internet when you hit ya cap" yea ya just charge me more

after sending the "your at 80%" email after I've breached 100% & the "your've run out" the day after

stupid delayed updating!!!
So now I manually check it saves the extra costs

You're using more than 40G ..?...

**Edbear** · 22nd September 2011, 14:34

Oh, I forgot, we also have faxability.

**Scuba_Steve** · 22nd September 2011, 14:38

Originally Posted by Edbear

You're using more than 40G ..?...

Damm giggity

, even hit it a couple of times completly legal too

**Disco Dan** · 22nd September 2011, 14:40

Faxability would be handy - currently spending $4-7 a week sending faxes from copy shop round the corner! I keep telling my work to upgrade their systems out of the stone age but they like getting faxes I think!

I can easily do without a phone line. I have a phone line with woosh but for the past year I think they only phone calls I've had have been the odd one or two from my mother!

Most of the calls I make are to business so usually an 0800 number which would be free from my cell phone anyway. Plus would mean I would have to buy a fax machine and I don't think I could cope with the embarrassment of walking out of a shop holding a fax machine!

**oneofsix** · 22nd September 2011, 14:44

Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve

Damm giggity

, even hit it a couple of times completly legal too

Guad dammit you peoples that don't listen to the propaganda are really annoying. In future please remember the only way to use many Gs is to be illegally file sharing and that is the only use for torrents.
BTW just downloaded the linux mint Os last night via torrent, anybody tried this or have I wasted my time?

**Scuba_Steve** · 22nd September 2011, 14:45

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

Sounds like a good little earner for TC !

haha try this page

**Disco Dan** · 22nd September 2011, 14:47

Originally Posted by oneofsix

Guad dammit you peoples that don't listen to the propaganda are really annoying. In future please remember the only way to use many Gs is to be illegally file sharing and that is the only use for torrents.
BTW just downloaded the linux mint Os last night via torrent, anybody tried this or have I wasted my time?

Or if you just set up a private shared NAT (or is it NAS?) full of files that only people I give the password to can use. They can stream video from my external HDD to their tv wherever they are in the world. Uses my upload data AND their download data... so yes will use a lot of GB !

**Disco Dan** · 22nd September 2011, 14:50

Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve

haha try this page

Curses!

Slingshot still cheapest though...

What sort of speeds are people getting?

This shows my speeds at home, then the big spike is me sitting outside work with my laptop....

**Gremlin** · 22nd September 2011, 14:50

NAS: Network Attached Storage...

**Disco Dan** · 22nd September 2011, 14:52

Originally Posted by Gremlin

NAS: Network Attached Storage...

Yeah, that's the one

...needless to say I have not got it working yet

**YellowDog** · 22nd September 2011, 14:53

Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve

Think your looking in the wrong place...
I'm 69$ naked

or there abouts 40GB limit, but thats the big thing I don't like about TC "we won't slow your internet when you hit ya cap" yea ya just charge me more

after sending the "your at 80%" email after I've breached 100% & the "your've run out" the day after

stupid delayed updating!!!
So now I manually check it saves the extra costs

Another +1 for Testra. $75per month for Phone line, 10Mb line speed (goes as slow as 7Mb), and 20Gb of data.

The line speed is dependent upon where you actually live. Service was a problem following the CHCH shakes, which you'd expect as that's where they are, but they're pretty reliable really.

The Orcon deals look quite putstandsing, but they're still on Telecom's switchgear. Telstra have their own gear in a lot of areas (my aresa in particular)

**Gremlin** · 22nd September 2011, 14:55

Originally Posted by YellowDog

The Orcon deals look quite putstandsing, but they're still on Telecom's switchgear.

I'd double check that... they have a lot of their own gear all over the place, and Orcon is based on the shore, both main building and datacentre.

**Disco Dan** · 22nd September 2011, 14:58

Anyone know where the fibre optic maps went? They used to be on Vector site and showed current fibre and future fibre. But now I cannot find them - I last looked 2-3 years ago! Specifically the Epsom area where my current 'lair' is!