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315766 2005-01-20 01:06:00 $40 for dial up?!?!? Who the heck charges you that!? ~sy~ (95)
315767 2005-01-20 01:39:00 Thats like ...... 4 times what you should be paying. Or 3 if you get real good quality dialup..... george12 (7)
315768 2005-01-20 01:49:00 Uh....There is no such thing as a free modem,The idea is to suck you into their plan which will provide the biggest profit for them (as in high speed and low cap)

Plus, The modem is nothing great, and if anyone has any interest in online gaming that plan is the worst you could go for,a couple of patches and a few hours gaming would kill it, I doubt it would last a week of intended use.

At the very least Orcon provide plans to suit without any "free" gear to shape your desicion.



It pays to look deeper then the marketing..
Metla (12)
315769 2005-01-20 01:53:00 Orcon UBS actually sucks @ the moment with the amazingly high ping. storM (6828)
315770 2005-01-20 02:14:00 Uh . . . . There is no such thing as a free modem,The idea is to suck you into their plan which will provide the biggest profit for them (as in high speed and low cap)

Plus, The modem is nothing great, and if anyone has any interest in online gaming that plan is the worst you could go for,a couple of patches and a few hours gaming would kill it, I doubt it would last a week of intended use .

At the very least Orcon provide plans to suit without any "free" gear to shape your desicion .



It pays to look deeper then the marketing . .
The problem is, jamesyboi has continually insisted that he couldn't go over $40 . That alone, meant all that was available to him are the 1Gb plans -from both Xtra and Orcon . Looking at those offerings, the Orcon plan does not offer any advantage over Xtra's .

Isn't marketing what business is about?
~sy~ (95)
315771 2005-01-20 02:37:00 ah, . . . I bounced right over the budget issue, I supose if thats locked in then its a matter of choosing the best deal at that price then, Personally i would get a job and come up with the extra $10 :lol:


And call me old fashioned but i aviod companies who put more effort into their promotion and ways to suck money off their customers then they do into providing a worthwhile product .
Metla (12)
315772 2005-01-20 04:04:00 Personally i would get a job and come up with the extra $10 :lol: Thats a very good point. Surely, if you afford $40 -then you can afford $50 :D ~sy~ (95)
315773 2005-01-20 09:36:00 Thats a very good point. Surely, if you afford $40 -then you can afford $50 :D

i know i desperately need a job..... $30 for watchdog bull**** internet and $7 for voicemail because im hoggin the line :P

EMPLOY MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
jamesyboi (6579)
315774 2005-01-20 09:50:00 Just like to put my 10c worth, as I,m in a pissed off mood anyway.
I,m on a 3gb 256 plan with Xtra and have been put on dialup speed for about
10 days now (sucks) today should have been my new month with 3gb of
256 speed but I,m still on 64kbs, not happy!!
Don't talk to me about marketing.
Orcon here I come!!
tech_meister (5509)
315775 2005-01-20 09:53:00 EMPLOY MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWhere abouts are you? If Auckland, what part? ~sy~ (95)
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