I tried out Kordia's network again in Remuera yesterday.   There are two nodes, on top of footpath verandahs towards each end of Remuera shops.    Coverage is pretty good.  It works in Sierra half way between the two,  and of course in Robert Harris from 4 metres away, with an antenna pointing straight in the door nuking the place.  Inside malls it doesn't work [too deep in the buildings].   But it worked sitting comfy in the Post Office, which is around the corner and I thought perhaps out of sight.  

Sitting at a bus stop, with strong signal, I got nice fast transmission.   I got 4163 kb/s download and 1483 kb/s upload.   Then I walked home and did the same test on my Slingshot ADSL over Wi-Fi on the same device [with the Zenbu Wi-Fi two metres from the laptop, so signal was fine] giving download 3235 kbps, upload 127 kb/s   Hooray for Kordia and RoamAD. 

New Zealand ADSL is pathetic.   The download was fast [it's not normally so quick]

Tomizone and Fivo SSIDs were missing for some reason in Kordia's Remuera zone yesterday, though they have been on board Kordia's network previously, along with Orcon and KiwiWireless.

At 15c a megabyte, [the 'plan' I chose] Kordia's price isn't too bad either.  It's not as cheap as Zenbu's 10c a megabyte, [or free if zone operators offer that, which some do] but it's not bad = metropolitan zones cost more to build than cheap little ADSL Wi-Fi routers and Kordia people are on big salaries.  

127 kb/s is hopeless.  

BTW, Zenbu now has more accommodation provider points of presence than any other Wi-Fi network in NZ and is third after Telecom and CafeNET in total points of presence.   Zenbu is also a finalist in the Open Source awards in Wellington next week.  http://www.nzosa.org.nz/news << Open Source Use in Business: Zenbu, Plan HQ, New Zealand Post/Red Hat, Zoomin, Silverstripe >>