The plan is absolutely terrible. The concept is great, but implementation is sub-par.
This is my first few hours on this plan and I am already hating this crap.
The moment I can afford to get off this horrible ISP - I will be going back to the Orcon+ network which provides much superior* services than what Telecom is obviously capable of providing.

I can not even stream an Internet radio without it buffering every two seconds.

HTTP traffic is horribly shaped - I tried to use www.geekzone.co.nz and the page took almost 1-2 MINUTES to load! That is absolutely ridiculous. MY understanding was that HTTP traffic got prioritized.

This plan has been nothing but pain in the a$$ since I got it. Previously on Orcon+ I was connecting/syncing at 18mbps.

Now on Telecom I connect at 12mbps
Download speeds on Orcon+ were topping out at 2mb/s (after the issues were fixed recently)
Downloads on Telecom (http -multithread) top out at 900kb/s (but drop as low as 500kb/s). (telecom are insisting that this is good for their NEW ADSL2+ network?)

I would love nothing more right now than for Telecom to waive the fee to disconnect (dreaming) and let me move back to a provider who can provide a much better set of services than Telecom, a so called market leader, can.

And to top this off, The Telecom staff I spoke to today were giving me the run around as well.  While it was nice to be answer by someone within seconds of the phone ringing (definitely credit to them) - it would be nice if they were capable of providing answers instead of acting like PR chimps reading me recited lines which doesn't help anyone.

And just before one of you lot try to tear me a new one; I fully understand that Telecom can in no way provide the same service on the BigTime plan, like they do to their other plans with caps. BUT, this is simply unacceptable. 1-2minutes while trying to surf Geekzone, or trying to deal with eBay is completely rediculous, and not being able to stream an internet radio is no exception (it also runs through port 80).

*Can actually stream an internet radio and access/download http traffic faster than dialup.
+ they can offer caller ID (phone service) which Telecom are incapable of doing.