new plans 26th October

So it is nearly the 26th. The new plans arrive Thursday. Anyone seen
anything exciting from any ISP's?

Orcon seem to have said nothing more about what they have planned. I am
currently on their advanced 40 plan

256/128 40 gigs $59

It works for me but 256/128 is looking far from advanced today, the 40
gigs is what keeps me there.

However I can't see a reason to stay there if Xtra are going to be having

FS/128 unlimited traffic for $49

the 700 meg cap during 4pm to midnight certainly won't concern me...

Anyone else thinking of moving to that plan? I will wait a bit to see
what people think of it but certainly seems a lot better than what I am
currently on.

 

'128' upstream is a joke. I spew on their plans.

Where is the 30 gig cap, fs/fs speed limited plan?

 

Well yes it isn't the best but FS/128 is certainly better than 256/128.

That would be the new pro advanced plan or did you mean UNLIMITED plan?

FS/FS 30 gigs $99.95

I am tempted for that too, if it was 40 gigs rather than 30 I would
probably go for it.. but I am thinking that going from 256/128 which I
am on now, my usage will increase a lot with the faster speeds so I will
need the full 40 gigs..

 

Woops, instead of speed limited, I meant throttled, ie, once you go over cap
speed is throttled to 64kbps.

 

Slingshot have a little blurb on their page about new plans being
announced on the same day (no details though). If they have a similar
offer to Xtra then I'll stay with them and switch to the unlimited
plan, otherwise I'd have to seriously consider changing to Xtra's Go
Large plan.

Can't believe they're still 128k up though. Is there a technical reason
for that???

 

Nor can I and I'm not with slingshot or xtra.

 

I have been having lots of problems with slingshot / callplus over the last
few weeks. Constant disconnections in the evening, and when I am connected,
parts of the internet totally inaccessible. There network satus page doesn't
detail the problem, and hey have had the same phone message informing of
problems for weeks. In total I have probably had about 2 days of outages in
the last month. They are not willing to compensate for the outages, blaming
telecom, an sayin that under their terms they don't have to provide a
service if they have problems with their providers. At least telecom
compensated for the outages when they had problems.

Today I can't even access this website http://pressf1.co.nz/index.php

 

No, it is not a technical reason. More likely it is just because they
don't want cheap plans with better uplinks competing with their business
plans. Considering fullspeed uplink on ADSL is what 640kbits? they
don't have much room to move between horrible 128 and fullspeed. I find
it pretty pathetic that Telecom haven't offered some decent plans for
home users with 256kbits up but hey that is telecom.

 

I haven't noticed anything unusual. The only problem I have with them
is that sometimes the Yahoo Mail site is inaccessible for a few minutes
at a time (happens once or twice a day, most days). It's not quite
annoying enough for me to switch from them though (I never had that
problem with Orcon or from my PC at work, so I'm pretty certain it's at
Slingshot's end).

I can't access it either and I'm currently at work (who go through
Iconz).

 

It is because they don't want people to have a good quality voip
connection, otherwise people will use voip instead of their own fixed line
service.

 

Isn't that more to do with latency, which Telecom have been accused of
deliberately increasing to ruin voip?

 

As of the 26th you can request for latency to be turned off so that is a
50 ms decrease right there.

I think most voip services recommend having a minimum of 256 uplink however.

 

But only on FS/X plans and not on Xtra

Thanks

 

They cannot contract themselves out of the consumer guarantees act. They are
the provider, they are supposed to give a satisfactory service.

 

Interesting.

You guys need an "advanced 40 plan" that is FS/FS and costs $99 and
gives 40 gigs

Possibility with the new plans? or something close?
There seems to be a gap in the middle ground with Orcon and its plans..

it's from $59 with the current advanced 40 to $149 for advanced 60

 

Paradise / TC

256/128 $24+
FS/128 $36+
FS/FS $44+

+usage packs: 1GB = 2.95, 10GB = $11.95

Done away with 5GB packs and gone is the throttling when you go over. They
automatically add another pack to your bill.

 

Exactly what I was after, thanks for that.
They have static ip's too?

I will wait and see if orcon offer something similar but otherwise im
moving i think!

 

What is their shaping like, anyone know? And can they actually deliver
what they promise?

I tried Orcon and found that they couldn't. Ihug are doing well,
although I'm still on a 2Mbps plan (40GB+40GB).

 

You have to be a telstra customer and you also have to spend at least 10
dollars a month on tolls with them per month (otherwise they charge you
10 dollars anyway). Seems a bit lame.

 

I've looked into Telstra's (Clear) plans over the past couple of years
and found them so complicated and convoluted that I gave up trying to
understand them. They really should look at providing some simple,
straightforward plans that don't involve all the other shit.