What ISP to go to after Big Time

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#334284 24-May-2010 23:23

I was looking at Slingshot too. $100 for 40GB and phone. Also free off peak. Seems like a really good plan, but what are the speeds really like? If the speeds are decent during the day then I'm interested.

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Detruire

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#334290 24-May-2010 23:49

During the day is about the only time you'll get good speeds with Slingshot.

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michaelt

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#334300 25-May-2010 00:57

System:

does that $70 include landline too? because if not that seems rather expensive

Yes, it does. Considering a landline in Auckland usually costs ~$45 by itself, this plan is really only ~$25 for a connection over which I get about 40GB download and 25GB upload per month.

trig42

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#334454 25-May-2010 12:40

Whilst Telecoms deals aren't the greatest, they are still OK.

I changed from Ihug to Xtra when Ihug wanted to charge me $200 and make me wait 10 working days to shift house (Telecom did it in 3 days for $50).

I was on Total Home Pro - $129, 40Gb FS/FS, Phone Line and all National calls. I just dropped my plan down to 20Gb ($109 total per month now). Can't complain.

The only thing I would like from Telecom is the ability to add data packs on for those months where there is a lot to download.

For heavy data users, Xnet's torrent plan seems OK, I know a couple of people that use it and they are pretty happy with it. The Slingshot one looks OK too, it's pretty easy to schedule downloads to off-peak.

amiga500

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#334503 25-May-2010 14:04

I hope Slingshot is better for you now. A year or so ago I left SS because they had a crazy shaping policy where the 1st 10mb or so of any download would come thru at blistering speed and then slow down to dial-up
like speeds. It was good for checking text only emails like I did in 1996... on 28K modem.

SmartDumbAss

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#335632 27-May-2010 20:22

Sounds like Slingshot is ruled out unless the slow speeds have a workaround, lol!

Detruire

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#335634 27-May-2010 20:39

Unlike big time, they seem to be caused by congestion.

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bonkiebonks

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#335640 27-May-2010 21:16

Snap looks good. The last time I was with them the speeds were good too. Not sure about now though.

kfella2000

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#336190 30-May-2010 08:20

niedermayer: NZNET seems really good. But can you get it at home? Or is it business only?

Prices exclude GST, but $79.95 +GST for 100GB sounds great. (Plus cost a phone line on top of that.)

I did a google on them and the first result showed up providers of dialup ADSL and wireless internet to home users so that answers that question. The next question is what are their speeds like as I am interested in their naked DSL plan of $109.95 +GST a month for 100GBs as it works out at $14 more a month with GST than what I am paying for 40GBs of naked DSL

vinnieg

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#336209 30-May-2010 10:02

Frontliner: I dont know why people are even with Telecom.

I can think of only only one reason:

Speed!!! That's the only reason I'm still with them, after swapping between, Slingshot, to Xnet, Xnet to Telecom....still tempted to try out Maxnet and Snap though

I have moved across the ditch. Now residing in Melbourne as a VOIP/Video Technical Trainer/Engineer.

vexxxboy

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#336221 30-May-2010 10:34

bonkiebonks: Snap looks good. The last time I was with them the speeds were good too. Not sure about now though.

for a few days the speed tanked but they fixed something and the speeds i get lately have been the best i have ever had, and its 24/7 no peak or off peak ,the speed is constant for everything

Common sense is not as common as you think.

hemihua

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Geek

#337231 2-Jun-2010 08:06

eXDee:
Quoban: Oh and they offer unlimited broadband too.... Just a little pricey for me :)
http://www.actrix.co.nz/page.php?id=194

Thats because its true unlimited full speed unmanaged, not 'fake' unlimited like big time is.

I wonder how true that actually is - on several occassions the 'handbrake' has come off and everything has gone full tit - i.e. at least 200KBs even for torrents, maybe while they're upgrading software or doing something to the routers. Certainly didn't start going slower...

cafeg

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#337244 2-Jun-2010 08:35

I must have been in a good area with xtra/bigtime as I was getting upto 200kbps transfer rate during the day on torrents, during the unshaped hours it was upto 1.2 Mbps transfer rate. Files sometimes came down at around 850 kbps even during peaktimes.
200 Kbps is not really fullspeed unlimited ...

cafeg

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#337259 2-Jun-2010 09:17

But now I must admit it's down to around 30kbs on a torrent and files during unshaped hours, web pages are fine and still speedy though,

cafeg

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#337260 2-Jun-2010 09:19

Oops, during shaped hours down to 30kbs I meant...

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