So who's a decent ISP then these days?

I wasn't too happy being sold to Bordernet by Ihug (something better may
be coming out of this, wait and see, Bordernet have announced cheaper
rates for August) but I would like to go *dsl if only to free up the
phone.
Now Ihug are cutting their full newsfeed and while I only look into
binary newsgroups once every couple of years, I like to have them there
when I want them. Hmmm.

Guess that cuts Slingshot out of the loop ... Orcon and Telstra Clear
have pretty bad reps at the moment, I'll only give my money to Telecon
as a very, absolutely *very* last resort.

So who's a competent ISP with a full-ish newsfeed then? Any Iconz
customers here? I used to have a SLIP account with them some eternities
ago, like, when 'internet' was tin, pine and gofer - but the've been
pretty dear in the meantime, as well as on again, off again.

Any suggestions for other contenders?

-P.

 

You might want to add your district, as there are a few ISP's that are
location specific (eg. wireless ISP's seem to be 2 per town)

 

I am with Iconz, in Devonport, using DSL:, the 59 dollar version. I have
always been happy with them. Technical support is available during the week
after hours, but not Sundays if I remember correctly.

Henry

 

Rural Northland (very rural, Hokianga to be exact, not the one in
Welly).

Talking of Welly, how's Actrix going? Their deal seems to vary
considerably from most of the others if I understand it right: datacap
of 700Mb daily ?!? That's way better than what I normally need ..... Do
they still have a good newsfeed?

-P.

 

Hi Peter

I like you have left Bordernet, (shame they seemed to have it together
but I can get adsl). I went with Actrix, I was unsure of how there
throttling and held desk would be after seeing all the hiccups Ihug had
setting up and maintaining accounts. So I only signed up for 1 month I
paid the 99$ setup fee and thought well if they suck I'am outta here.
but there service is excellent you can email them and get a reply in
5mins, ring the help desk and likewise get a reply in minutes not tens
of minutes. I am on the Cyberjet 2Mb plan and the throttling is as
advertised after the cap it limits to 64Kb/s and at 12 exactly reverts
to full speed, there data usage page appears to be accurate and there
news service appears to work as well as others.

I don't think you will be disapointed

Regards

Jeremy

 

Actrix are still pretty good. I've been with them since Adam
was a lad. Their latest ADSL thing comes in different
flavour, and the one I will be getting is "capped" at
350MB/day. But after 350MB, it's not charged for. You get a
speed reduction. The newsgroups are pretty good, I've not
noticed any missing posts or any other strange occurrences.
I'm also going to use their tolls thing. It's a bit more
expensive than iHug phone, but I'm not too worried about that.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

I like xtra.

 

me too, occasional issue, but nothink like, shall we say Paradise
seems to have. I have my phone, broadband, Sky and Cell phone plan
all with Telecom, makes it so much easier for paying bills.

Squirrel

 

Well, WorldxChange has a full newsfeed.
See http://www.xnet.co.nz