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Thread ID: 58274 2005-05-27 05:00:00 Infogen Broadband - any good? alexps (8215) Press F1
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358820 2005-05-27 05:00:00 Hi. Anyone had any experience with Infogen Broadband?
Am currently with Xtra/Telecom on a 2Mb unlimited plan but exceed my quota within a week usually & spend the remaining 3 weeks on dial-up rates. Infogen just mailed me their new plans with my Genesis elec bill & although they are max 256k download they never reduce traffic speed. Or so they claim. As I'm currently spending 80% of my access at 56k rates anyway, it would seem to be sensible to swap. But before I tell Xtra where to stick their 'unlimited' access, just wanted to test the water. Does anyone have experience with their Fastlane 3 or 6 plans? Do they really never drop their access rate?
Sounds to good to be true... Unlimited broadband access that really is? In NZ?
Never!
:rolleyes:
alexps (8215)
358821 2005-05-27 05:09:00 perhaps xtra need to rephase there wording of unlimited plod (107)
358822 2005-05-27 05:12:00 Infogen is run by Orcon. pctek (84)
358823 2005-05-27 05:41:00 I know, it sucks, but realistically it is "unlimited" data transfer... just not unlimited at the pre-defined speeds

Im lucky, Im with iHug and I managed to get on to their 256/128 plan, flat-rate, no throttling :D
Chilling_Silence (9)
358824 2005-05-27 05:48:00 It's only unlimited in the same way as dial-up if you never hang up. It's just the rest of the world uses unlimited to mean no throttling. But lets not get started on that again. I like the use of the word throttling which, quite literally, does mean choking the life out of.

To return to topic, I presume the fact they're owned by Orcon is a *bad* thing?
Do we not like them? And if not, can I ask why? (sorry, I'm kind of new here)...

I've just had a look at the Orcon site & realised that they're actually 23 bucks a month cheaper than Infogen! And that's with my 'special' Genesis customer discount. So I guess Infogen aren't so good after all...
alexps (8215)
358825 2005-05-27 08:33:00 To return to topic, I presume the fact they're owned by Orcon is a *bad* thing?
Do we not like them? And if not, can I ask why? (sorry, I'm kind of new here)...

No idea. If you like Orcon then its good. If you don't then its bad I guess. Just information that they look after it all now.
pctek (84)
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