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brucie44
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  #93203 31-Oct-2007 20:54
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  Airnet  the Rolls Royce of ISPs  ?      

   no prices on their site !      

   regards,  Bruce  




Glazza
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  #93204 31-Oct-2007 20:59
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Sorry, should have posted a little more detail:

There has been a lot of talk, blaming international upstreams (not in the thread, but in others), mainly Asia Net...  The one of Airnet's international upstreams is Asia Net, so this speed test was to prove that the issues people are suffering appear to be at the ISP level, rather than the upstream providers (wXc also use Asia Net)

PS:  Pricing isnt bad, considering the service deliveried is what you pay for...  what more can you ask for?

Cheers

kobiak
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  #93206 31-Oct-2007 21:01
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unison, can you explain more on plans they have?

the question is... how much :)




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Glazza
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  #93207 31-Oct-2007 21:03
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I believe there coverage is still limited to the Hawkes Bay and Rotorua regions?  Would pay to check with them on that however.

I dont know there pricing schedule either, however I'm sure if you are within those regions they would be more than willing to answer your questions...

Yahn
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  #93211 31-Oct-2007 21:15
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I was seriously considering the big change to Xnet meself but if knumbnut's speeds are anything to go by, first impressions are not that much better than Woosh. Do they give P2P traffic a fair go on a good day  ?

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#93224 31-Oct-2007 22:19
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I'm still pretty happy with my orcon deal, $80 for phone, unlimited national tolls and 20GB internet.

The speeds are good, Actually I get better international speeds through Orcon that I did with telstraclear!

at the start they were not the quickest but they soon rectified it, note I'm also ripping videos off youtube while doing that test so this will be inaccurate.



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  #93253 1-Nov-2007 06:24
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Yahn: I was seriously considering the big change to Xnet meself but if knumbnut's speeds are anything to go by, first impressions are not that much better than Woosh. Do they give P2P traffic a fair go on a good day ?


As far as I can tell,  nothing is throttled.  I admit it looks like they have a speed issue during the day at the moment.  Morning speed seems fine (ie: 20x faster than what I could get with Woosh)

6:15am International



Plus,  I'm paying less and not supporting a company that in disfunctional.

Now,  there could definately be a situation in future where another ISP can offer more reliable speed for a better price - I'm sure there will.  And because I'm not locked into a contract with XNET and don't use their email system,  changing ISP's is as easy as a phone call and a router setting change.   So if you can get out of your Woosh contract and use around 20Gig per month - XNET will be a step up for you.

 
 
 

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  #93254 1-Nov-2007 07:06
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National at 7am ain't bad



PS:  I'm doing hourly tests throughout the day and will graph it tomorrow for you.  I'll also get comment from XNET to see if I get BS answers like Woosh.   Geeky enough for ya?

paradoxsm
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#93309 1-Nov-2007 16:20
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At a more decent hour without 3 downloads going



much nicer and am pretty happy with that result really.

brucie44
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  #93310 1-Nov-2007 16:30
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  in process  of changing to Xnet..  
  Phoned with weird query,   lady saw manager.  Back  with result in one minute.       
   Lucky if ever heard at Woosh    sheeeeeesh. 



JayADee
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  #93386 2-Nov-2007 06:48
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Hmm, I like the look of the 3k xnet speeds. :)
I could definitely live with that!

KnumbKnuts

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  #93414 2-Nov-2007 10:34
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OK, Here is the INTERNATIONAL speeds I'm getting from yesterday, taken on the hour from 6am through to 10pm. I'm quite a distance from Avonhead 2 exchange in Christchurch. You can see everything turns to poos around 4pm. I contacted XNET who were great - it's been a problem in the past apparently but new equipment (routers) have been installed to deal with the problem. Very helpful customer service - very impressed. Sent me a list of traceroute tests to perform so they can open a fault request with Telecom. Will post updates here.


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#93431 2-Nov-2007 11:25
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Good effort Knumbknuts. 

Go on, be a martyr and show us what time in the night/morning the speeds get decent again.

Yahn
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  #93455 2-Nov-2007 12:36
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Were they to LA or Sydney KnumbKnuts ?

brucie44
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  #93485 2-Nov-2007 15:03
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  Knumbknuts,   thanks for the graph.   

    Dealing with Xnet is certainly a pleasure after Woosh.          

    I found out  what WOOSH  means.         
    It is  the xound I  made when closed their account.

      regards  Bruce. 

    

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