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Anyone have any experience or comments?

Am thinking of switching over. Their package is 20GB for the same
price as Telecom's 10GB, plus they throw in a MySky upgrade.

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 19:49:21 -0700 (PDT), JohnO wrote:

> Anyone have any experience or comments?
>
> Am thinking of switching over. Their package is 20GB for the same
> price as Telecom's 10GB, plus they throw in a MySky upgrade.

I have used them for a long time and have had no probs.

Somewhere on teh intarwebs EMB wrote:
> On 5/06/2010 5:57 p.m., Suzie Wong wrote:
>>
>> Far to many complaints about Vodafone's
>
> Best option bar none for mobile though Woger.

The **** nym-shifted again! (I'm sure I've seen that one before, must have a
different email addy.) Thanks for the heads up EMB.

<plonk> "Suzie Wong". (What's up with that? 90% of people know his real name
but he insists on using lots of different aliases, a distubing amount of
them female....)
--
Shaun.

"When we dream.... that's just our brains defragmenting" G Jackson.

EMB wrote:
> On 5/06/2010 2:49 p.m., JohnO wrote:
>> Anyone have any experience or comments?
>>
>> Am thinking of switching over. Their package is 20GB for the same
>> price as Telecom's 10GB, plus they throw in a MySky upgrade.
>
> Pre-cabinetisation I got ~7Mb/s connect speeds with Telecom.

That's interesting. I'm with Vodafone, and live in Te Atatu. I get ~3Mb/s with
their speed test. I'm wondering if I would get some improvement by paying some
attention to my telephone wiring.

Gib Bogle wrote:
> EMB wrote:
>> On 5/06/2010 2:49 p.m., JohnO wrote:
>>> Anyone have any experience or comments?
>>>
>>> Am thinking of switching over. Their package is 20GB for the same
>>> price as Telecom's 10GB, plus they throw in a MySky upgrade.
>>
>> Pre-cabinetisation I got ~7Mb/s connect speeds with Telecom.
>
> That's interesting. I'm with Vodafone, and live in Te Atatu. I get
> ~3Mb/s with their speed test. I'm wondering if I would get some
> improvement by paying some attention to my telephone wiring.

Probably, loads of people on geekzone reporting that is the case.

IMO the ISPs should not entertain any complaints about speed or
disconnection until people have had their internal wiring sorted out.

Richard wrote:
> Gib Bogle wrote:
>> EMB wrote:
>>> On 5/06/2010 2:49 p.m., JohnO wrote:
>>>> Anyone have any experience or comments?
>>>>
>>>> Am thinking of switching over. Their package is 20GB for the same
>>>> price as Telecom's 10GB, plus they throw in a MySky upgrade.
>>>
>>> Pre-cabinetisation I got ~7Mb/s connect speeds with Telecom.
>>
>> That's interesting. I'm with Vodafone, and live in Te Atatu. I get
>> ~3Mb/s with their speed test. I'm wondering if I would get some
>> improvement by paying some attention to my telephone wiring.
>
> Probably, loads of people on geekzone reporting that is the case.
>
> IMO the ISPs should not entertain any complaints about speed or
> disconnection until people have had their internal wiring sorted out.

Can you recommend a good source for info on what is required?

On 2010-06-07, EMB <> wrote:
> On 7/06/2010 12:57 p.m., Gib Bogle wrote:
>> Richard wrote:
>>> Gib Bogle wrote:
>>>> EMB wrote:
>>>>> On 5/06/2010 2:49 p.m., JohnO wrote:
>>>>>> Anyone have any experience or comments?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am thinking of switching over. Their package is 20GB for the same
>>>>>> price as Telecom's 10GB, plus they throw in a MySky upgrade.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pre-cabinetisation I got ~7Mb/s connect speeds with Telecom.
>>>>
>>>> That's interesting. I'm with Vodafone, and live in Te Atatu. I get
>>>> ~3Mb/s with their speed test. I'm wondering if I would get some
>>>> improvement by paying some attention to my telephone wiring.
>>>
>>> Probably, loads of people on geekzone reporting that is the case.
>>>
>>> IMO the ISPs should not entertain any complaints about speed or
>>> disconnection until people have had their internal wiring sorted out.
>>
>> Can you recommend a good source for info on what is required?
>
> http://www.tcf.org.nz/content/dc07ab...61bdd4d02.html

Interesting site.

However, to me bedrooms are for three things; sleeping, (un)dressing and
sex. Still I seem to be way out in the minority on this

EMB wrote:

>> Can you recommend a good source for info on what is required?
>
> http://www.tcf.org.nz/content/dc07ab...61bdd4d02.html

Thanks!

On Jun 5, 4:39*pm, EMB <emb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/06/2010 2:49 p.m., JohnO wrote:
>
> > Anyone have any experience or comments?
>
> > Am thinking of switching over. Their package is 20GB for the same
> > price as Telecom's 10GB, plus they throw in a MySky upgrade.
>
> Pre-cabinetisation I got ~7Mb/s connect speeds with Telecom. *Post
> cabinetisation I get ~18Mb/s. *I'm in Vodafone's "Red Zone" so a
> connection to the is not a resold Telecom product, which is all good,
> except it is a link right back to the exchange and gives my neighbour
> the ~7Mb/s connect speeds as per the original Telecom performance. *Also
> compared to Telecom the international bandwidth on said neighbour's
> Vodafone connection seems to somewhat lacking.
>
> Oh, you lose unlimited national toll calls when you make the change too.

I don't care about the tolls, but having upgraded my modem I now get >
17Mbps and if moving to Voda means I go back to ADSL1 speeds it's a no-
brainer. I'm not in the red zone.

On 11/06/10 12:02 AM, JohnO wrote:

> I don't care about the tolls, but having upgraded my modem I now get>
> 17Mbps and if moving to Voda means I go back to ADSL1 speeds it's a no-
> brainer. I'm not in the red zone.

Has Telecom not upgraded your area yet? I am on Vodafone (NOT the red
zone) and I get 15Mbps