Is GoLarge gone completely hopeless?

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Shin

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#14466 4-Jul-2007 21:49

From this week, I'm experiencing very slow connection speed on my GoLarge plan.

Even Telecom's own test metre shows its only 974kbps downstream.

Are they abandoned GoLarge customers completely?

I wasn't looking for 2mbps+ international access, but 974kbps in domestic is kind of insult

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#77000 5-Jul-2007 10:51

I too are getting pretty poor speeds that are inline with yours i usually get around 768-512k download.. but im pulling 70gb a month for not much $$ so it dosnt bother me too much :)

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#77004 5-Jul-2007 11:23

Last night I phoned xtra as I was having problems receiving emails. I was told that there was a problem and it affected all Go Large customers.

The problem seems to have been resolved this morning. On the issue of speeds I have experienced the same problem, IE Go large becomes Go Slow.

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#77006 5-Jul-2007 11:57

My golarge speed has increased x6 since friday

wahoo!

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#77024 5-Jul-2007 13:37

Im on Go Large, things were awful for ages, improved heaps last few weeks.

Hows this for international, on Go Large... good by any DSL connection standard really...

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#77025 5-Jul-2007 13:40

And I thought I would replicate the OPs worst test, which was to LA.

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#77089 5-Jul-2007 21:27

tonyhughes: And I thought I would replicate the OPs worst test, which was to LA.

That's so unlike GoLarge.. what modem do you use and which area are you living?

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#77191 6-Jul-2007 23:50

wow what time of the day was that?!!

i should've kept my go large do you think guys??? SOBS!!

Evinta

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#77204 7-Jul-2007 01:05

This is pretty much all day, with regular connection breaks.

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#77219 7-Jul-2007 09:26

School holidays at the moment, this has a dramatic effect on all DSL service.

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#77223 7-Jul-2007 09:41

cyril7: School holidays at the moment, this has a dramatic effect on all DSL service.

Cyril

seems like those school kids are axis of evil to me

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#77232 7-Jul-2007 11:32

kids = youtube, beebo, and the likes! hopefully they are under parental control too!!! argh kids nowadays

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#77247 7-Jul-2007 14:12

Shin:
tonyhughes: And I thought I would replicate the OPs worst test, which was to LA.

That's so unlike GoLarge.. what modem do you use and which area are you living?

That was with a DLINK DSLG604T in Hastings <1km from Exchange

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#77248 7-Jul-2007 14:13

joker97: wow what time of the day was that?!!

i should've kept my go large do you think guys??? SOBS!!

Same time as the respective post date/times they were on.

Evinta

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#77250 7-Jul-2007 15:30

Oh yes i am so sorry guys for having a younger brother who likes youtube and online flash games and a older/younger brother [younger than me] who likes World of Warcraft.

So sorry :(

[thats annoying though, we should have the speeds we were promised instead of having to share with everyone]

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#77400 9-Jul-2007 10:26

Since school holidays have started, I'm back to the usual sluggish speeds.
There seems to be a relationship between automobile traffic & internet traffic
One gets better at the expense of the other.