Telecom New Zealand launches national WiFi network

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#904130 28-Sep-2013 13:07

sonyxperiageek: This is better than McDonald's free wifi! :P

maccas free wifi might as well not exist, it never works, they have the transmit power set so low on their routers that it doesnt work!

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#904176 28-Sep-2013 14:43

Maccas wifi has worked fine for me for basic browsing and a short youtube, but with their low caps its pretty limited.

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#904338 28-Sep-2013 22:01

richms: Maccas wifi has worked fine for me for basic browsing and a short youtube, but with their low caps its pretty limited.

I'm surprised that you made it past their login portal!

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#904460 29-Sep-2013 12:55

sonyxperiageek:
richms: Maccas wifi has worked fine for me for basic browsing and a short youtube, but with their low caps its pretty limited.

I'm surprised that you made it past their login portal!

i can never even connect, ill be sitting inside the restaurant (if you can call it that) and it will show one bar but will say it was unable to connect.

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#905412 30-Sep-2013 21:43

sonyxperiageek: This is better than McDonald's free wifi! :P

BK has "balzing fast" wifi as they call it, in Nelson there happens to be a telecom wifi spot across the road. BK one was faster than telecom's.

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#906381 2-Oct-2013 12:36

Behodar: I just tried it; it asks for your phone number and then presumably looks up whether or not it's a Telecom number. When I re-entered the area I didn't need to authenticate again so I'm guessing that my MAC address is now logged as valid.

In theory, anyway!

I walked past the same hotspot again today (Whakatane Information Centre) but wasn't using my phone at the time. When I got back to work I went to use the phone and found myself greeted by a login screen (which naturally didn't work because I was out of range again).

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#906406 2-Oct-2013 13:09

Can (just) pick up one of the APs at my office, thing is, the nearest phone box is about 500m away, so presumably they've got Ruckus boxes tacked onto places other than just phone boxes. On top of cell towers maybe?

Great service down in Nelson when I've used it, although they just have the AP units in little domes on top so the boxes look like a transparent TARDIS. Look forward to making use of it until 4G is suitably prevalent.

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#908643 5-Oct-2013 23:33

I tried to connect on my 2degrees phone today.

Loaded phones default web browser, got up a down arrow which if pressed change from +64 and the aussie one.

Selected the 64 one, then when pressed square to right, my touch keyboard came up but i could not see what i was typing.

Entered mobile phone number, to get it to send text with password.

Ticked agree to conditions etc, then it after clicking proceed, it came up with "could not generate password for" and the MAC address of my phone.

It came up with retry or an 0800 number to ring, I didn't have time to ring 0800 number, was just curious to see how it worked. Don't know what i did wrong or why it didn't like the mac of my phone.

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#908756 6-Oct-2013 13:16

It worked without a hitch for me..Also blogged about the experience here.

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#908770 6-Oct-2013 13:59

sweet ...

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#908957 6-Oct-2013 22:12

I took a laptop, and same phone.

Got it to work but the speed was dismal. Wifi signal bars were good.

Waiting for web site to respond was on screen for 45 seconds to 1 minute 30, then web site would load.

Went to geekzone, text loaded quick, but an image smaller then my hand was still loading after 2 minutes.

Went to speedtest.net, timed out on the testing ping part.

There's no problems with speeds on my laptop in my home network.

It looks like it's valid for 60 days, so i'll give it ago at a different phone box before then, but if no big improvement then not for me at $10 a month.

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#908960 6-Oct-2013 22:30

Maybe that specific location is having issues? What location was that phone box in?

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#908963 6-Oct-2013 22:35

rugrat: I took a laptop, and same phone.

Got it to work but the speed was dismal. Wifi signal bars were good.

Waiting for web site to respond was on screen for 45 seconds to 1 minute 30, then web site would load.

Sounds like this phone box needs a master filter installed ;) - or many people might have been using it.

Just a little bit more on this, if you return to a hotspot the next day it will not text auth you again, with my phone it just automatically connects then asks you to confirm, from here no matter what hotspot you connect to it'll automatically connect and be online for the next 24 hours.

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#908969 6-Oct-2013 22:43

I find that it will auto reconnect if you are gone for a while, but come back next day and it will pop up the notification to log onto the network and I have to press somethign on the page.

_REALLY_ annoying since because of androids braindeadness of turning off the 3g before checking that the wifi works, you are sitting there with your phone in your pocket offline till you look at it and press the thingie on the redirected web page to actually work.

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#908972 6-Oct-2013 23:12

sonyxperiageek: Maybe that specific location is having issues? What location was that phone box in?

Tuam street, Christchurch.

Just after stanmore road, by nursery road i think.

I give it a go at another location. Or wait for the phone box to have it's master filter installed :)

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