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| Thread ID: 52746 | 2004-12-29 00:44:00 | Which ISP for ADSL? | Michael Yoon (6697) | Press F1 |
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| 308425 | 2004-12-29 00:44:00 | Hi, My friend wants to get Broadband so that he can surf the net without holding up the phone line. He asked me to help him look for a ISP. I was wondering if you guys could recommend a good, cheap and reliable ISP. My friend has just recently gotten a computer so he does not know how to do many things. I guess he would be using the net at least 5 hours a day. He plans to play online games (java and flash games and multiplayer games) and surf webpages. I think in this early stage he does not know how to download. Would a 3GB plan be enough for his usage? Or should it be a 10GB plan just incase he starts downloading? I looked at Orcon and found the Orcon Residential 256K Bitstream (www.orcon.net.nz) Which looks pretty good. What do you guys think? Thanks alot Michael Y |
Michael Yoon (6697) | ||
| 308426 | 2004-12-29 01:21:00 | I looked at Orcon and found the Orcon Residential 256K Bitstream (www.orcon.net.nz) Which looks pretty good. What do you guys think? That's a good plan. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 308427 | 2004-12-29 02:04:00 | Hi, My friend wants to get Broadband so that he can surf the net without holding up the phone line. He asked me to help him look for a ISP. i got a seperate line for our internet |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 308428 | 2004-12-29 02:22:00 | Quicksilver! :thumbs: | Ash M (46) | ||
| 308429 | 2004-12-29 03:21:00 | I'm told (according to my brother) that Xtra's 1Mbps plan costs $44/month. I'm with Orcon's 256Kbps bitstream plan which costs $50/month. 256Mbps is adequate speed for playing MMORPGs online (I've been playing Asheron's Call for 5 years, and a connection of 256Kbps gives me ingame pings averaging between 200-400ms every night). | xmojo1 (4630) | ||
| 308430 | 2004-12-29 03:28:00 | I've just joined Ihug's Bliink Plan and I'm more than satisfied I'm on 256 UNCAPPED for $49.95 per month.That is with my phone also through Ihug. It'll cost an extra $10.00 if you keep your phone with Telecom. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 308431 | 2004-12-29 05:50:00 | I'm told (according to my brother) that Xtra's 1Mbps plan costs $44/month. I'm with Orcon's 256Kbps bitstream plan which costs $50/month. 256Mbps is adequate speed for playing MMORPGs online (I've been playing Asheron's Call for 5 years, and a connection of 256Kbps gives me ingame pings averaging between 200-400ms every night). I joined xtra's 1G capped plan before Xmas. $40 was (I recall) the figure. What was the sweetener was free modem and no joining fee. (I actually paid extra for the router/modem as there's 3 PCs on a LAN at home). Of course, there's the "extra" phone line that comes with it to consider, as well as only one bill to pay. What was a bugger was that "something" (WINMX?) clocked up over 3G in 3 days and I got capped on the eighth day! Damn!! And I was only 'trying' WinMX! And considering the cap starts at 1G, to get to 3G before the choke was put on either showed some Xmas spirit or over-worked something. Or someone. Perry |
Perry (4966) | ||
| 308432 | 2004-12-29 05:55:00 | jeez i do about 1GB on dial up a month | Prescott (11) | ||
| 308433 | 2004-12-29 06:03:00 | Im on Bliink for a month and so far it sucks big time! I reach 32KB/s during downloads, which is the max, and acceptable, but going back to that after a whole month at 240KB/s on the 2mbps plans.... aside from that I do a lot of uploading to myself whilst at work, and to friends etc, so the 128kbps upload sucks! Mostly because of my requirements.... Web surfing was a little slow.... But otherwise for most people I'd say it'd be a pretty good plan :-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 308434 | 2004-12-29 07:41:00 | I've just joined Ihug's Bliink Plan and I'm more than satisfied I'm on 256 UNCAPPED for $49.95 per month.That is with my phone also through Ihug. It'll cost an extra $10.00 if you keep your phone with Telecom. Jack I don't know if I used the correct term, but by UNCAPPED i mean that the price is fixed and I can download all I want to without any extra charges. Jack |
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