I'm not that onto it when it comes to this stuff so excuse my ignorance some times

We have moved into our new place and would like to get internet, and possibly phone. We are in the rural, in Paterangi, which is near Ohaupo, between Hamilton and Te Awamutu.
We would really like to get broadband, and I have been looking at quite a few different options, and went on the nzconnection.net website and had a look - now I am even more confused haha.
We will be a Te Awamutu phone number, rather than a Cambridge/Hamilton, which is where all our friends and family are - so it will be a toll call to call them, so we figure why pay around $45 per month to then have to pay toll calls on top, when we could just use cell phones (our neighbour gets a Cambridge number, but we don't

We would look at package deals with phone line and broadband if the price was good, I see telecom is doing one for around $110/month which includes unlimited calls to national land lines, but is quite expensive between 2 people with a new mortgage haha.
I have a Mac Ibook laptop, so we would like wireless broadband, or mobile broadband. I don't think I could use the Woosh mobile broadband data card thing with my laptop, so that leaves Telecom and Vodafone. I have looked at their plans but it is hard to know if will actually work at our house (reception/signal wise).
The other thing I have thought about is using Skype to talk to my parents on their computer, and also get set up to be able to make phone calls with them (costs around $10/month) so then we can make calls to other family, and friends. Or we could get broadband from an ISP that also does VoIP, then we could make calls (however VoIP works haha).
What I also don't know is how much data we would need, and I also don't understand about download/upload speeds. I email (including attachments), browse a few websites (incl facebook, bebo), watch some videos on youtube (not 1000s). Then also if we didn't get a landline I may try Skype, which would use more internet. I also download a few songs. I see telecom mobile broadband does 1GB and vodafone does 1GB and 3GB, and I have no idea how much that actually is in terms of what I do.
Has anyone got any ideas or suggestions on who they would use, or know of any deals, or plans that would suit us? After looking at nzconnection.net I see that there are even more providers that I hadn't yet looked at. Xnet looks ok, but I haven't read much into it yet, hard to know what you are specifically looking for when you don't know what you need haha.
Anyway, any suggestions and ideas would be much appreciated

Look forward to any replys
Thanks

Tarah