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The ihug Starter plan (2mbps with 4gb cap) looks pretty good for $39.95
a month (as long as get tolls through them).

However after the hassles with Orcon I'm reluctant to switch to another
ISP just like that.

Price-wise it looks pretty good. Is it worth considering the switch or
would I be better off sticking with Orcon and waiting for their price
drop?

Andrew Gerald wrote:
> The ihug Starter plan (2mbps with 4gb cap) looks pretty good for $39.95
> a month (as long as get tolls through them).


wtf.... i signed up with blink lite when it was 256K, but just found out
they're now all 2Mbit plans...? at 49.95 i'm getting only 256K...

i never got an e-mail from them about the change... when does my account
morph into a 2Mbit account?

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:25:02 +1300, gimp <> wrote:

>Andrew Gerald wrote:
>> The ihug Starter plan (2mbps with 4gb cap) looks pretty good for $39.95
>> a month (as long as get tolls through them).
>
>
>wtf.... i signed up with blink lite when it was 256K, but just found out
>they're now all 2Mbit plans...? at 49.95 i'm getting only 256K...
>
>i never got an e-mail from them about the change... when does my account
>morph into a 2Mbit account?

You have to contact them about it.

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:25:02 +1300, someone purporting to be gimp didst
scrawl:

> Andrew Gerald wrote:
>> The ihug Starter plan (2mbps with 4gb cap) looks pretty good for $39.95
>> a month (as long as get tolls through them).
>
>
> wtf.... i signed up with blink lite when it was 256K, but just found out
> they're now all 2Mbit plans...? at 49.95 i'm getting only 256K...
>
> i never got an e-mail from them about the change... when does my account
> morph into a 2Mbit account?

If you're paying $49.95, you probably don't have a data cap, right?
I'm tossing up upgrading, but my flatmate will happily chew through a
10+10 data cap, which is the equivalent price to what we're currently
paying for a 256k connection with no data cap.
Maybe when I move back to Auckland, since it could also be a month before
the speed upgrade kicks in and I'm here for less than two more months.

--
Matthew Poole
"Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer."

Matthew Poole wrote:
> If you're paying $49.95, you probably don't have a data cap, right?


bzzzt, caps. i have 2GB/2GB national & international. or is that peak
& off-peak... can't remember lol. but definitely a pretty low cap.


> I'm tossing up upgrading, but my flatmate will happily chew through a
> 10+10 data cap, which is the equivalent price to what we're currently
> paying for a 256k connection with no data cap.


i will say the reliability and constant speed of bliink lite has been
*flawless* for the 10 months i've been on it. i still think it sux they
didn't e-mail me about the account changes....

"gimp" <> wrote in message
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> Matthew Poole wrote:
>> If you're paying $49.95, you probably don't have a data cap, right?
>
>
> bzzzt, caps. i have 2GB/2GB national & international. or is that peak &
> off-peak... can't remember lol. but definitely a pretty low cap.
>
>
>> I'm tossing up upgrading, but my flatmate will happily chew through a
>> 10+10 data cap, which is the equivalent price to what we're currently
>> paying for a 256k connection with no data cap.
>
>
> i will say the reliability and constant speed of bliink lite has been
> *flawless* for the 10 months i've been on it. i still think it sux they
> didn't e-mail me about the account changes....
>
>
>

I rung them about it and they are saying it will take 7-10 days to upgrade
the speed from 256k to 2Mbps. why so long?

cowboyz wrote:

> I rung them about it and they are saying it will take 7-10 days to upgrade
> the speed from 256k to 2Mbps. why so long?

4763 other people rang before you and will be changed over before you
are.


--
EMB

"EMB" <> wrote in message
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> cowboyz wrote:
>
>> I rung them about it and they are saying it will take 7-10 days to
>> upgrade the speed from 256k to 2Mbps. why so long?
>
> 4763 other people rang before you and will be changed over before you are.
>
>
>
> --
> EMB

But I am more important

Andrew Gerald wrote:
> The ihug Starter plan (2mbps with 4gb cap) looks pretty good for $39.95
> a month (as long as get tolls through them).
>
> However after the hassles with Orcon I'm reluctant to switch to another
> ISP just like that.
>
> Price-wise it looks pretty good. Is it worth considering the switch or
> would I be better off sticking with Orcon and waiting for their price
> drop?
>
What is XTRA's response going to be? Why would anyone prefer an XTRA
account now? For the same price I could change to IHUG and get 8 times
the max speed and 2-4 times the cap.

Will other ISP's such as Orcon follow suit in the near future? If so I
will stick with them and save the churn fee, but if not then the extra
speed and lower cost is definitely tempting!