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I'm currently with IHUG/Vodafone and I have my toll calls with them as
well. The sound quality on toll calls is pretty bad. I've been with
them for over ten years now and I'm quite happy with the reliabilty of
their service, but I need good phone quality now and if I was to
switch back to Telecom for toll calls I suspect Vodafone would switch
me to one of their new more expensive plans.

So I'm thinking of switching ISPs. Orcon has a good reputation and I
like the look of their Gold plan, but can anyone tell me if their
phone service is OK?

Are any other problems likely with their homeline service? I'd quite
like to ditch Telecom altogether.

Any other recommendations for a reliable ISP?

--
Ray Greene

In message <>, Ray Greene wrote:

> So I'm thinking of switching ISPs. Orcon has a good reputation and I
> like the look of their Gold plan, but can anyone tell me if their
> phone service is OK?

Just had a call from a friend who has his tolls on Orcon (he was careful to
keep the call under an hour). He seems happy with them. I kept hearing a
background AC hum, but he blamed that on the Uniden phone.

On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:31:57 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<_zealand> wrote:

>In message <>, Ray Greene wrote:
>
>> So I'm thinking of switching ISPs. Orcon has a good reputation and I
>> like the look of their Gold plan, but can anyone tell me if their
>> phone service is OK?
>
>Just had a call from a friend who has his tolls on Orcon (he was careful to
>keep the call under an hour). He seems happy with them. I kept hearing a
>background AC hum, but he blamed that on the Uniden phone.

Thanks. Was the voice qualty OK at your end other than the hum?

--
Ray Greene.

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:27:33 +1300, John Smith <> wrote:

>Ray Greene wrote:
>> I'm currently with IHUG/Vodafone and I have my toll calls with them as
>> well. The sound quality on toll calls is pretty bad. I've been with
>> them for over ten years now and I'm quite happy with the reliabilty of
>> their service, but I need good phone quality now and if I was to
>> switch back to Telecom for toll calls I suspect Vodafone would switch
>> me to one of their new more expensive plans.
>>
>> So I'm thinking of switching ISPs. Orcon has a good reputation and I
>> like the look of their Gold plan, but can anyone tell me if their
>> phone service is OK?
>>
>> Are any other problems likely with their homeline service? I'd quite
>> like to ditch Telecom altogether.
>>
>> Any other recommendations for a reliable ISP?
>>
>Orcon does not have a good reputation.
>
>http://zlspam.blogspot.com
>
>They lie and fabricate evidence.

OK, thanks John.

--
Ray Greene

"Ray Greene" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I'm currently with IHUG/Vodafone and I have my toll calls with them as
> well. The sound quality on toll calls is pretty bad. I've been with
> them for over ten years now and I'm quite happy with the reliabilty of
> their service, but I need good phone quality now and if I was to
> switch back to Telecom for toll calls I suspect Vodafone would switch
> me to one of their new more expensive plans.

All the Internet / phone providers charge you about another $10 if you don't
have your toll calls through them as well.

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:48:00 +1200, "Your Name" <>
wrote:

>
>"Ray Greene" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> I'm currently with IHUG/Vodafone and I have my toll calls with them as
>> well. The sound quality on toll calls is pretty bad. I've been with
>> them for over ten years now and I'm quite happy with the reliabilty of
>> their service, but I need good phone quality now and if I was to
>> switch back to Telecom for toll calls I suspect Vodafone would switch
>> me to one of their new more expensive plans.
>
>All the Internet / phone providers charge you about another $10 if you don't
>have your toll calls through them as well.
>
Yes, switching ISPs would be a cheaper option.

--
Ray Greene

In message <>, Ray Greene wrote:

> Was the voice qualty OK at your end other than the hum?

Yeah, no problems otherwise.

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:57:19 +1300, Mutley
<> wrote:

>Ray Greene <> wrote:
>
>>I'm currently with IHUG/Vodafone and I have my toll calls with them as
>>well. The sound quality on toll calls is pretty bad. I've been with
>>them for over ten years now and I'm quite happy with the reliabilty of
>>their service, but I need good phone quality now and if I was to
>>switch back to Telecom for toll calls I suspect Vodafone would switch
>>me to one of their new more expensive plans.
>>
>>So I'm thinking of switching ISPs. Orcon has a good reputation and I
>>like the look of their Gold plan, but can anyone tell me if their
>>phone service is OK?
>>
>>Are any other problems likely with their homeline service? I'd quite
>>like to ditch Telecom altogether.
>>
>>Any other recommendations for a reliable ISP?
>
>We have been using Orcon Tolls for several years now no problems.
>Voice quality seems fine using a Telecom landline and UBS. The only
>issue we ever had with Orcon's fone service was when we went LLU for
>about 8 months. It was a dog..

Thanks Mutley, that's good to know.

--
Ray Greene

On 2010-03-27, Ray Greene <> wrote:
> I'm currently with IHUG/Vodafone and I have my toll calls with them as
> well. The sound quality on toll calls is pretty bad. I've been with
> them for over ten years now and I'm quite happy with the reliabilty of
> their service, but I need good phone quality now and if I was to
> switch back to Telecom for toll calls I suspect Vodafone would switch
> me to one of their new more expensive plans.

Yep, profit lost.

>
> So I'm thinking of switching ISPs. Orcon has a good reputation and I
> like the look of their Gold plan, but can anyone tell me if their
> phone service is OK?

Gentle people, Telecom,is still in our lives, on a wholesale level, not to
mention the physical level.



>
> Are any other problems likely with their homeline service? I'd quite
> like to ditch Telecom altogether.
>
> Any other recommendations for a reliable ISP?
>

Ray Greene wrote:
> I'm currently with IHUG/Vodafone and I have my toll calls with them as
> well. The sound quality on toll calls is pretty bad. I've been with
> them for over ten years now and I'm quite happy with the reliabilty of
> their service, but I need good phone quality now and if I was to
> switch back to Telecom for toll calls I suspect Vodafone would switch
> me to one of their new more expensive plans.
>
> So I'm thinking of switching ISPs. Orcon has a good reputation and I
> like the look of their Gold plan, but can anyone tell me if their
> phone service is OK?
>
> Are any other problems likely with their homeline service? I'd quite
> like to ditch Telecom altogether.
>
> Any other recommendations for a reliable ISP?

Sister is on orcon LLU phone and its crap quality, she also has lots of
calls not work when dialing out with the call going thru to the
recipiant but no audio (not sure if that has happened recently since I
just call her cell now since its so cheap)

Keep getting tone sounds during calls from their braindead gear, doesnt
happen for me talking to telecom customers. I am on slingshot voip using
G729 so cant comment on quality since its **** with g729 but g711 takes
too much bandwidth for me so I get glitches when using the internet at
the same time.