xlinknz: Tried that Orcon test and it said I can get in excess of 4Mb but the max I get is 2.6Mb



Oh well, if that is anything to go by then "less than 2Mb" might give me 1Mb if I'm lucky.

I'm out of wireless range, apart from Vodafone, but 1Gb for the same price of about 10Gb on cable is a bit sad and I won't be able to run my vfx voip with the USB dongle.

So I'm still holding out for for TC connection... look like another week has slipped (well I suppose it's been two short weeks). Haven't seen any action on the street poles yet.

Tempted to climb the pole myself and run a temporary wire in the meanwhile!! I've still got an active account and modem...just no socket to plug into. Perhaps I could find a neighbour with a cable feed and wirelessly transmit back to my house...hmmmm... "

Fingers crossed something might happen next week.