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wogers nemesis wrote:
> LEts hope they don't "do an Orcon". If you get too popular then things go
> down the bog.

Ah but Orcon pinched that idea from Ihug were they were the only flat
rate provider in town and all the rest charged by the hour because "flat
rate would never work".

I fondly remember those nights of constant redialling several phone
numbers trying to connect to a non-busy modem and it was cause for
celebration when there was a MOTD message such as "We've added another
50 modems".

That's why I never recommend Ihug, I want my bandwidth for me

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:57:26 +1300, "Jack" <> wrote:

>but yeah ihug aren't too bad..still room for inprovement.. was ****ed off
>when they dropped the binary newsgroups tho.. are you using them for toll
>calls ? what do you think of the quality if you do ?

The toll calls are just like on Telecom - no difference whatsoever. I
think all that is happening is that we are being billed from Ihug (at
a cheaper rate). It does not seem that the tolls traffic is actually
going anywhere near Ihug's network.

"Fred Dagg" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:39:44 +1300, "E. Scrooge" <scrooge@*shot.co.nz
> (*sling)> exclaimed:
>
>>> It's brilliant.
>>>
>>> It means that you can schedule non-urgent stuff for between midnight
>>> and 8am, and just grab priority stuff during the day.
>>>
>>> And because you are going at close to full speed pretty much all of
>>> the time, you can get a heck of a lot down between midnight and 8am!
>>
>>You're going to have a very short month then. You must be close to using
>>up
>>all your data for the month.
>>If you lived overseas in America you'd be laughing. People overseas can't
>>believe the lousy plans that you're on.
>
> It's better than Telecom's 10GB then dialup, or Orcon's
> we'll-pretend-we're-offering-a-2Mbps-plan-but-if-you-use-anything-that-
> actually-requires-speed-we'll-drop-you-down-to-400kbps-but-still-charge-
> you-for-every-additional-10GB plan.

It's **** poor compared to other placers in the world.

E. Scrooge

Jack wrote:
> yeah could be... will find something that is being seeded by lots of people
> & see how that goes...
>
> but yeah ihug aren't too bad..still room for inprovement.. was ****ed off
> when they dropped the binary newsgroups tho.. are you using them for toll
> calls ? what do you think of the quality if you do ?


I havent used them for tolls for a long time, but whenever I get a call from
someone that uses the ihug calling card it sounds really shitty. Makes cdma
sound awesome in comparison.

>> you-for-every-additional-10GB plan.
>
> It's **** poor compared to other placers in the world.
>
> E. Scrooge
>

aaaaahhhhh... dude grow a brain ! we are not in "other places in the
world". We are in "some politician got completely ****ed at a lunch that
Telecom paid for in Wellington and agreed to let them do whatever they
liked" land !

"E. Scrooge" <scrooge@*shot.co.nz (*sling)> wrote in message
news:1139606301.484452@ftpsrv1...
>
> "Fred Dagg" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:39:44 +1300, "E. Scrooge" <scrooge@*shot.co.nz
>> (*sling)> exclaimed:
>>
>>>> It's brilliant.
>>>>
>>>> It means that you can schedule non-urgent stuff for between midnight
>>>> and 8am, and just grab priority stuff during the day.
>>>>
>>>> And because you are going at close to full speed pretty much all of
>>>> the time, you can get a heck of a lot down between midnight and 8am!
>>>
>>>You're going to have a very short month then. You must be close to using
>>>up
>>>all your data for the month.
>>>If you lived overseas in America you'd be laughing. People overseas
>>>can't
>>>believe the lousy plans that you're on.
>>
>> It's better than Telecom's 10GB then dialup, or Orcon's
>> we'll-pretend-we're-offering-a-2Mbps-plan-but-if-you-use-anything-that-
>> actually-requires-speed-we'll-drop-you-down-to-400kbps-but-still-charge-
>> you-for-every-additional-10GB plan.
>
> It's **** poor compared to other placers in the world.
>
> E. Scrooge
>

We are all pretty much in agreance on this point..bitching about it
constantly becomes a bit of a bore dont you think,??
m