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On Slingshot I'd be paying $80 a month for naked ADSL (ADSL2 to come later when Vodafone upgrade the Karori exchange).
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I've been on Geekzone over 16 years..... Time flies....
mattbush: You can get TCL to disconnect your landline at no cost. The cable plans do not need a phone line.
cyril7:
Hi, all Slingshot plans except the bottom two (<$30) are at Fs/Fs on ASDL2+, infact all connections to Karori Exchange are ADLS2+, have been for 3yrs or more.
Cyril
ATinyChipmunk: whats this about them bumping their plans? i haven't herd anything about this? im on the 20gb plan...
cyril7: ... infact all connections to Karori Exchange are ADLS2+, have been for 3yrs or more.
Linuxluver: I pay Orcon $129 / month for 101GB DSL. 6.6mbps down and 980kbps up.
MyTelecom landline is extra and my exchange (Birkdale) is ancient and can't do un-bundling. (Hell, it can't even do Caller-ID. We're talking *ancient*) So we can't ditch the landline.
101GB is a good amount. I have - effectively - 9GB / month of 3G across my two VF cell phones. So add that to the mix. But it's a lot more dear than the DSL. But the DSL (Telecom's fault usually 2 days once, 3 days the other time) in past 6 months) craps out frequently enough and for long enough (days) that we decided we need a contingency backup and tethering three PCs to a cell phone for 3 days at time gets expensive if you don't have data pre-arranged at a reasonable price.
Ok so it looks like the Karori exchange is 2.5km away from my house by road. That isn't too terrible but certainly not the best.
Buttonmash: $150 cable only 80GB plan
Buttonmash: $80 a month for naked ADSL For that I'd get only 25GB
Buttonmash: I can just buy a 50GB datablock for $50
So we are saying that for 75GB you are paying $$130 per month for a possibly slower connection?
Might just be me but I dont see much of a difference here, maybe just the uncapped downloads part but how fast would that go? save yourself the hassell and don't move is my advice as I have experienced and heard of many service issues with Slingshoot in the past.
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