Broadband - Who is the best provider

I'm still on dialup and have a paradise account. I rang Paradise today and
was quoted $87 for 3gig monthly package (phoneline tolls etc) and the
person told me that it is fullspeed up and down, 30 to 40 times faster than
dial-up. Does this sound like a good deal?

Cheers, Kooky

Kooky

In article <BwqHm.2018$>,
says...
>
> I'm still on dialup and have a paradise account. I rang Paradise today and
> was quoted $87 for 3gig monthly package (phoneline tolls etc) and the
> person told me that it is fullspeed up and down, 30 to 40 times faster than
> dial-up. Does this sound like a good deal?
>
> Cheers, Kooky


No, not good. In particular the combo of full speed up/3 Gb is silly.
So's the price. You can generally get a full speed down/128k up with a
10Gb data cap for around $55. Full speed up only makes much sense if you
are going to do a lot of web-page or ftp serving from your own machine
(or p2p but less so) but for any of these purposes the 3 Gb cap would be
ridiculously small. I don't think I'd want that particular plan of
theirs at half the price.

-Peter

Peter Huebner

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:21:22 +1300, Peter Huebner <>
shouted from the highest rooftop:

>In article <BwqHm.2018$>,
>says...
>>
>> I'm still on dialup and have a paradise account. I rang Paradise today and
>> was quoted $87 for 3gig monthly package (phoneline tolls etc) and the
>> person told me that it is fullspeed up and down, 30 to 40 times faster than
>> dial-up. Does this sound like a good deal?
>>
>> Cheers, Kooky
>
>
>No, not good. In particular the combo of full speed up/3 Gb is silly.
>So's the price. You can generally get a full speed down/128k up with a
>10Gb data cap for around $55. Full speed up only makes much sense if you
>are going to do a lot of web-page or ftp serving from your own machine
>(or p2p but less so) but for any of these purposes the 3 Gb cap would be
>ridiculously small. I don't think I'd want that particular plan of
>theirs at half the price.

Without all the extra bells & whistles (like callminder, caller ID,
call diversion, and friend-call-a-friend for the cellphone) we pay
99.35 a month for our calling plan plus "Explorer" broadband. That's
for 10gigs with no speed restrictions. IOW you can get a LOT more from
Telecom for only $12 more a month.

Donchano

Peter Huebner <> wrote in
news: t:

> No, not good. In particular the combo of full speed up/3 Gb is silly.
> So's the price. You can generally get a full speed down/128k up with a
> 10Gb data cap for around $55. Full speed up only makes much sense if
> you are going to do a lot of web-page or ftp serving from your own
> machine (or p2p but less so) but for any of these purposes the 3 Gb
> cap would be ridiculously small. I don't think I'd want that
> particular plan of theirs at half the price.
>
> -Peter
>

Thanks for your input Peter. I have absolutely no concept of speeds or how
much surfing or downloading one is able to do with a 3gig cap. I'm the only
user and it is mainly for emails and browsing the web.

Cheers, Kooky

Kooky

Donchano <> wrote in
news::

> Without all the extra bells & whistles (like callminder, caller ID,
> call diversion, and friend-call-a-friend for the cellphone) we pay
> 99.35 a month for our calling plan plus "Explorer" broadband. That's
> for 10gigs with no speed restrictions. IOW you can get a LOT more from
> Telecom for only $12 more a month.
>
The 10gig package at Paradise is $95 same as Telstraclear, but I thought
10gig would be far too much for me, but then again if the whole experience
of surfing and downloading emails is better on broadbaand I might be
inclined to stay online longer.

Thanks for your input.

Cheers, Kooky

Kooky

Crash <> wrote in
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>
> You really need to be more specific on why you wish to move to
> Broadband - establish what your needs/wants are then march off to look
> around at what is on offer for what you need.
>
> Paradise is owned by TelstraClear and you can find out what they can
> offer at www.telstraclear.co.nz. You might also be interested in an
> ISP comparison that Consumer NZ has at
> http://www.consumer.org.nz/reports/broadband-internet
>
> HTH
> --
> Crash

Thank you for the Consumer link Crash. My own needs are relatively small
but I've been getting really frustrated lately with 10megs + emails
arriving and having to wait up to 45 minutes for them to come into to my
email client. I can see my emails in Mailwasher and I usually delete the
really large files from my server but I also receive newsletters which I
have to download for the genealogy group I'm in.

Cheers, Kooky

Kooky

Kooky wrote:
> I'm still on dialup and have a paradise account. I rang Paradise today and
> was quoted $87 for 3gig monthly package (phoneline tolls etc) and the
> person told me that it is fullspeed up and down, 30 to 40 times faster
> than dial-up. Does this sound like a good deal?

Check out this site for comparisons
http://www.internetchoice.co.nz/
There is also the Consumer one posted earlier.

HTH

Peter

peter

In article <iwuHm.2979$>,
says...
>
> Peter Huebner <> wrote in
> news: t:
>
> > No, not good. In particular the combo of full speed up/3 Gb is silly.
> > So's the price. You can generally get a full speed down/128k up with a
> > 10Gb data cap for around $55. Full speed up only makes much sense if
> > you are going to do a lot of web-page or ftp serving from your own
> > machine (or p2p but less so) but for any of these purposes the 3 Gb
> > cap would be ridiculously small. I don't think I'd want that
> > particular plan of theirs at half the price.
> >
> > -Peter
> >
>
> Thanks for your input Peter. I have absolutely no concept of speeds or how
> much surfing or downloading one is able to do with a 3gig cap. I'm the only
> user and it is mainly for emails and browsing the web.
>
> Cheers, Kooky


Hmmm, I didn't notice that the price of $87 included your phoneline --
that puts a slightly different light on it. If I include the price of my
phoneline, I actually end up paying $106/month ...

Still, I find with usenet reading, email, and web-surfing I use between
2 and 6 Gigabytes monthly (that includes the odd small download,
upgrades to browsers etc, virus checker updates, and lots of internet
news sites, the odd demo for a computer game). If I download more than 1
DVD's worth outside of that, I can be in trouble with my 10Gb cap ...

-P.

Peter Huebner

peter <> wrote in
news:hclvsp$pol$:

> Check out this site for comparisons
> http://www.internetchoice.co.nz/
> There is also the Consumer one posted earlier.
>
> HTH
>
> Peter
>
Great site!! Thank you Peter

Cheers, Kooky

Kooky

Crash <> wrote in
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>
> I have been an Orcon user (www.orcon.net.nz) for a few years now and
> have had very few problems. They offer data-capped plans but when you
> go over your cap they simply charge you for the extra data you use and
> the rate is not prohibitively expensive. Just go to the website,
> click on 'at home' and type in your phone number to see the plans they
> can offer you.
>
> Note that you will need a router (sometimes called a modem). Some
> ISPs include this in their service offerings.
>
> You will also need to put in filters for all your existing phone
> equipment (phones, faxes, etc). There are inexpensive and quality
> options here.
>
> Consumer NZ has a number of articles on broadband - not just the one I
> quoted. Search their site for 'isp' and you will see other articles
> that may be of interest.
>
> Good Luck,
> --
> Crash
I appreciate your reply and will certainly follow through on all the good
advice.

Cheers, Kooky

Kooky