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#321851 22-Apr-2010 21:54

mortiis33:
nzpossum: I wouldn't hold your breath Mortiis. I'm going to call them in about an hour so i'll post back with whatever lies they tell me (i'm sure it will be something totally different again). Damm i hope Fair Go pick up this story as it may be our last hope.

Possum, yeah I know. I've been told something different nearly every day for over a week now, it's absolutely pathetic. be sure to DEMAND an answer from them and tell them that you ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE affected by this, and that Fair Go have been contacted.
x

Maybe if we get all of us to write into fair go with our story? Might be the way to go?

I for one will be writing up my "report" about it tomorrow night if I find some time, and I will also be submitting a copy as a formal complaint directly to Telecom, and might look at fairgo if people are interested here.

mortiis33

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Master Geek

#321853 22-Apr-2010 22:00

Aaroona:
mortiis33:
nzpossum: I wouldn't hold your breath Mortiis. I'm going to call them in about an hour so i'll post back with whatever lies they tell me (i'm sure it will be something totally different again). Damm i hope Fair Go pick up this story as it may be our last hope.

Possum, yeah I know. I've been told something different nearly every day for over a week now, it's absolutely pathetic. be sure to DEMAND an answer from them and tell them that you ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE affected by this, and that Fair Go have been contacted.
x

Maybe if we get all of us to write into fair go with our story? Might be the way to go?

I for one will be writing up my "report" about it tomorrow night if I find some time, and I will also be submitting a copy as a formal complaint directly to Telecom, and might look at fairgo if people are interested here.

Hell yeah mate, count me in - In fact, I have already complained to fairgo, so has my fiance and several friends on the plan too.
xx

Aaroona

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#321854 22-Apr-2010 22:09

mortiis33:
Hell yeah mate, count me in - In fact, I have already complained to fairgo, so has my fiance and several friends on the plan too.
xx

oh sweet, well thats a good start.
I will definitely get onto mine tomorrow night or saturday morning.

Just a thought: I'm surprised someone hasn't registered www.xtraslow.co.nz and started a campaign! O_O

Note: www.TelecoN.co.nz is already taken.... by Xtra :P

mortiis33

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Master Geek

#321861 22-Apr-2010 22:31

Aaroona:
mortiis33:
Hell yeah mate, count me in - In fact, I have already complained to fairgo, so has my fiance and several friends on the plan too.
xx

oh sweet, well thats a good start.
I will definitely get onto mine tomorrow night or saturday morning.

Just a thought: I'm surprised someone hasn't registered www.xtraslow.co.nz and started a campaign! O_O

Note: www.TelecoN.co.nz is already taken.... by Xtra :P

And so has www.wechargeyou60amonthfordialup.co.nz
taken by Telecom too :D
XXXX

crazed

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#321932 23-Apr-2010 08:42

mortiis33:
Aaroona:
mortiis33:
Hell yeah mate, count me in - In fact, I have already complained to fairgo, so has my fiance and several friends on the plan too.
xx

oh sweet, well thats a good start.
I will definitely get onto mine tomorrow night or saturday morning.

Just a thought: I'm surprised someone hasn't registered www.xtraslow.co.nz and started a campaign! O_O

Note: www.TelecoN.co.nz is already taken.... by Xtra :P

And so has www.wechargeyou60amonthfordialup.co.nz
taken by Telecom too :D
XXXX

lol, that would have taken alot of forward thinking lol

CraZeD,
Your friendly Southern Geeky Fellow :P

thedtb

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#324808 29-Apr-2010 16:15

It all seems to have gone very quiet on this front... how are you all getting on? What's happened to your connection speeds etc?

As for me, Telecom are now simply telling me that it is in fact down to the bandwidth shaping (traffic management) of the Big Time Plan and that if I don't like it I can swap to a different plan - or words to that effect at least.

In the meantime my transfer rates now seem fairly steady at aroun 230-250K/sec, which whilst nothing like the 700K/s to 1Mb/sec I was getting previously, is now considerably more useable than the rates I was getting this time last week!

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#324840 29-Apr-2010 17:13

Well my torrent speeds have improved a bit more.
But the HTTP is so slow I've switched back to downloading with torrents
Wheras last time torrents were throttled so I switched to HTTP downloading.

I think it's gone quiet cause people just can't be bothered anymore
or they got banned lol

PlatinuM195

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#325069 30-Apr-2010 07:51

I really can't be bothered so just changed to Pro, hopefully temporarily. I use the net frequently for video chat, gaming and remote desktop'ing into work. With the bad HTTP speeds recently I couldn't do any of those properly almost at any time of the day.

I download a bit (~40GB) a month sometimes a little more, but when I download I'd like reasonably consistent speeds.

shiroshadows

165 posts

Master Geek

#325075 30-Apr-2010 08:09

PlatinuM195: I really can't be bothered so just changed to Pro, hopefully temporarily. I use the net frequently for video chat, gaming and remote desktop'ing into work. With the bad HTTP speeds recently I couldn't do any of those properly almost at any time of the day.

I download a bit (~40GB) a month sometimes a little more, but when I download I'd like reasonably consistent speeds.

If thats the case.
BigTime isn't for you

mlee0326

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#325490 1-May-2010 06:28

Between 2am-9am (off-peak hours), i used to top 2.0mb/s on torrent if there are good seeds etc since I live 30 metres away from the roadside cabinet. Until, from 3 days ago, torrent speeds have reduced significantly down to 250~300 kb/s. I read posts here and I assume this has got to do with the Big Time traffic management, but don't you guys think 2mb/s -> 250 kb/s is just too radical a change?
I mean, come on.. 2000 -> 250 = traffic management? seriously?

shiroshadows

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#325531 1-May-2010 10:57

mlee0326: Between 2am-9am (off-peak hours), i used to top 2.0mb/s on torrent if there are good seeds etc since I live 30 metres away from the roadside cabinet. Until, from 3 days ago, torrent speeds have reduced significantly down to 250~300 kb/s. I read posts here and I assume this has got to do with the Big Time traffic management, but don't you guys think 2mb/s -> 250 kb/s is just too radical a change?
I mean, come on.. 2000 -> 250 = traffic management? seriously?

Exact same for me
I can live with it though

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#325533 1-May-2010 11:41

250KB/s and turn it on to download 24/7 that's about 20GB a day and 140GB/week and that may equal to 560GB per month...lol....I think it's still cheap for $60/month