Hi, I'm from the UK, moved to NZ a month ago and now I live in Auckland. I did not know before how poor the ISP situation is over here; in the UK I had a 6Mb line with 256up, and a 300GB cap and 30GB peak. Sometimes I got close to using it.
Here, living with four others, we have 20GB for a whole month?! we are obviously already limited to 64kbps.. and I am having real issues trying to find a decent ISP with a half decent cap. I've seen one true unlimited but they wanted $600/month for that, and I don't need the net that bad! The next is Xnet Fusion, with their torrent plan. I like the 75GB off peak (I say like.. I'd be ok with that) and the VoIP service.
My flat mates like the Vodafone Free MySkY package so I'm trying to convince them to change, but before I can give them the cost/benefit analysis(!) I need to know that the phone service is good enough.. the quoted low speeds of 100kb/s at peak times is acceptable for overnight stuff.
So, a few questions, since I have found some posts on VoIp quality, but they a are quite old.
How good is the VoIP service? I mean, skype quality, or better? when does the data become analogue again? how good is national dialling, say to Wellington?
We get 8Mb/s when we are not limited, so I would assume similar for Xnet on our exchange. true?
Anyway, thats good enough for now.. thanks for your input..
Alchemist