What amount of broadband do you have?

[Conquiztador]

Yeah- 5 hours skpeing to My lovely BBabe in one week cost me $1300!!!!! I had no idea till the bill came in. much better value to just ride up there!

You can buy a older bike for that and leave it at her place, then take the bus up and go ridin... ;-)

[cave weta]

You can buy a older bike for that and leave it at her place, then take the bus up and go ridin... ;-)

Mate - the only bus Ive ever ridden in since I was a kid was my own! I dont do public transport.
And F*ck you and your Prius too!

[Parlane]

I have a 260gb cap and the internet is not filtered or slowed down in anyway. I am with Snap and I do not have a phone. Costs me $102 a month and 2$ of that is for unlimited youtube.

[Parlane]

...we struggle to use 30 of our 50Gb...and thats between three of us with three or four different laptops and a 42 inch screen hooked up to constant bike racing or you-tube music clips or albums...costs about a hundred bucks with all our phone calls, line hire etc...

For 90$ with snap you can get a phoneline and 65gb of data.

[Tigadee]

Costs me $102 a month and 2$ of that is for unlimited youtube.

How does that work?

[haydes55]

I have a 260gb cap and the internet is not filtered or slowed down in anyway. I am with Snap and I do not have a phone. Costs me $102 a month and 2$ of that is for unlimited youtube.

How fast is snap? Do a speedtest.net test. Might switch to them by the sounds of things.

[Parlane]

How does that work?

Basically Snap let you pay2$ more a month and any youtube data does not count towards your monthly cap. It was a lot more useful when I only had 60gb haha.

I went from 60gb to 260gb over night, Snap went and raised ALL of their plans. Then afterwards all the others started "doubling" their plans which are still terrible in comparison lol.

[Parlane]

How fast is snap? Do a speedtest.net test. Might switch to them by the sounds of things.

Up: 14.31 Mbps
Down: 0.88 Mbps

Real numbers:

I get about 1.6MiB/s download off my seedbox. As far as I know I am limited only by my copper cable and distance to the exchange.

[Tigadee]

Oh snap! That sounds good!

I basically maxed out my 20GB plan and asked Telecom early in the year what they can offer as I was looking at Orcon for potentially larger plans. Telecom offered me 60GB for what I am paying now

And then a month later, a letter from Telecom tells me they are doubling their users' plans, which means I get 120GB now! It'll probably take my family a couple of years to max that out though!

[Parlane]

Oh snap! That sounds good!

I basically maxed out my 20GB plan and asked Telecom early in the year what they can offer as I was looking at Orcon for potentially larger plans. Telecom offered me 60GB for what I am paying now

And then a month later, a letter from Telecom tells me they are doubling their users' plans, which means I get 120GB now! It'll probably take my family a couple of years to max that out though!

What do you pay for your 120gb ?

Also with snap:

"With 03 for FREE you can call any South Island landline for FREE (available for South Island originating calls)."

Only useful for south island customers though. Standard local calling is free everywhere else.

Second edit:

I don't actually work for Snap haha. I am just what people call a happy customer!

[Conquiztador]

Mate - the only bus Ive ever ridden in since I was a kid was my own! I dont do public transport.
And F*ck you and your Prius too!

Now now... play nice in the sandbox.

[haydes55]

What do you pay for your 120gb ?

Also with snap:

"With 03 for FREE you can call any South Island landline for FREE (available for South Island originating calls)."

Only useful for south island customers though. Standard local calling is free everywhere else.

So Snap is a south island company, that shouldn't make it any slower up on the more important island would it?

[Conquiztador]

Oh snap! That sounds good!

I basically maxed out my 20GB plan and asked Telecom early in the year what they can offer as I was looking at Orcon for potentially larger plans. Telecom offered me 60GB for what I am paying now

And then a month later, a letter from Telecom tells me they are doubling their users' plans, which means I get 120GB now! It'll probably take my family a couple of years to max that out though!

Yep, same as in post 1 from me. $85 in Akl, Well and Chch. Rest $95/month. (Including phone line).

[Parlane]

Yep, same as in post 1 from me. $85 in Akl, Well and Chch. Rest $95/month. (Including phone line).

That's actually quite good. Do telecom throttle connections still?

[Nova.]

Telecom broadbands absolute RUBBISH.