Orcon free YouTube traffic to end of January 2010

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naggyman

694 posts

Ultimate Geek

#275930 24-Nov-2009 19:28

dacraka: Does this include watching YouTube on a mobile phone for e.g. an iPhone via a Wireless LAN connected to an Orcon internet connection?

Yes, because the iPhone is just another connection to the WiFi network. The WiFi connection connects to Orcon Broadband.

Morgan French-Stagg

morgan.french.net.nz

MightyApe

You will find anything you want at MightyApe (affiliate link).

antbs

370 posts

Ultimate Geek

Trusted

#275946 24-Nov-2009 20:15

All I can say is sweet!

Really good work from Orcon to offer these great deals to its customers, along with its great speed and customer service.

Good work guys!

Noodles

487 posts

Ultimate Geek

#275977 24-Nov-2009 22:18

Is the youtube caching new at orcon? Seems to be making a little bit of difference, but obviously on the more popular videos.

nzkiwiman

2584 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#275986 24-Nov-2009 22:50

Guess I don't watch the popular videos ..
6 minute clip. Buffering for 10 seconds, ever 2 seconds of video in Standard Quality.

Downloading via YouTube Downloader @ 67kb/sec

Line Rate

10615 Kbps
1009 Kbps

Sounddude

I fix stuff!
1903 posts

Uber Geek

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2degrees

Lifetime subscriber

#276034 25-Nov-2009 07:47

nzkiwiman, make sure you are using Orcons DNS servers.

old3eyes

8996 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#276059 25-Nov-2009 08:38

freitasm: Orcon has announced they will not count traffic to and from YouTube until the end of January 2010...

TiVo next??

Regards,

Old3eyes

smileynz

61 posts

Master Geek

#276203 25-Nov-2009 15:01

They would be doing this you they can cache everything here in NZ and speed up utube as they have had lots of complaints.

Cheers Orcon :)

nzkiwiman

2584 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#276263 25-Nov-2009 17:43

Sounddude: nzkiwiman, make sure you are using Orcons DNS servers.

Certinally are.
After I posted, I slowed down to under 30kb/sec.

lapze

9 posts

Wannabe Geek

#276667 26-Nov-2009 21:37

antbs: All I can say is sweet!

Really good work from Orcon to offer these great deals to its customers, along with its great speed and customer service.

Good work guys!

I second that youtube is working substantially better these days, can even stream HD content without any buffering very nice

nickbrooker

55 posts

Master Geek

#278436 1-Dec-2009 18:31

Falconz: If only youtube was watchable for me id be excited lol

Seconded...

Though not using orcon's name servers has made it way more usable. I don't care if it counts toward my traffic. At least it works now... Ah orcon when did it all go so wrong?

Falconz

67 posts

Master Geek

#278478 1-Dec-2009 20:32

I think its just so many users paying so little and expecting so much oh and all the torrent wh*&es

dman

946 posts

Ultimate Geek

#282705 15-Dec-2009 14:09

yes it would, as any data counts towards your internet connection not your phone bill (obviously as you could surf wifi even with the phone's mobile connection switched off)

https://www.youtube.com/c/SoundSpeeding

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