I can't see what all the hate is towards Big Time its reasonably priced, incredibly fast for me in Feilding (5mb/s roughly, with 7616 kbps connection speed), and has good international speeds. See my signature for speedtests on Big Time...
M_I_C_H_A_E_L: Lucky you. My DL Speed about an hour ago from wellington Server was 0.41 and Upload 0.32
Telecom do not peer with the hosts of the Wellington speedtest server. You should do your tests to any of the other servers in NZ as they will be more accurate.
People need to stop relying on speedtest.net as being an accurate measurement of their internet speed. There are far too many factors that will influence the results.
sbiddle: People need to stop relying on speedtest.net as being an accurate measurement of their internet speed. There are far too many factors that will influence the results.
I full understand your concern sbiddle, but I also said that the actual connection I get on average is roughly 2-5 mb/s.
"And has good international speeds". By good are you comparing them to a 14.4kb modem? Seriously its shocking for anything ever so slightly off the beaten track, looks like the wop wops get better service than central Auckland.
The one I have used many times performs well, better than mums xnet connection for international, on par with a slingshot connection. And the data is not being charged for so whats there to complain about.
IMO if you have sub few 100kbit speeds, then its a fault, so report it as such. If you have more than a few 5-600kbit then shut up and stop whining since its so damn cheap.
I just switched to Big Time a few days ago and loving it. I'm in Upper Hutt, Wellington.
I haven't tried speedtest.net as the traffic shaping causes inaccurate results as speedtest.net only tests a single connection.
I download stuff from and connect to an internation premium Usenet provider in America, and 60% of the time (even in traffic managed hours) I get 9-10Mbits/sec, and at worst the other 40% of the time 1.5/2 Mbits/sec. I have instructed my client to make 50 simultaneous connections to 4 different servers on different ports, and this seems to help.
Streaming is a bit slow, but I don't do streaming so it's no bother.
Web browsing is mostly adequate. Some sites (such as Facebook) are slower than others, but still useable. Just occassionally do they still (This never happened on the Pro plan).
So all in all, the way I use the internet, Big Time is perfect and performing admerably.
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