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| Thread ID: 40107 | 2003-11-28 00:14:00 | Goodbye Paradise Net .... we had some fun times | Jester (13) | Press F1 |
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| 195350 | 2003-11-28 00:14:00 | .... but your connection lately on Jetstart, particulary with gaming, has gone from medium to worse! I remember in 'the good old days' wjen you were a force to be reckoned with for connection stability. I was getting 200 pings - was used to 70 ish in the past, so I rung Orcon, and set up a Jetstart connection ... whoa - 35 - 60 pings! Email collection and downloading off the web is also faster, and the sweetening of it all is Orcon is $10.00 per month cheaper (albeit with a 5 gig limit - not that I ever used 5 gigs per month internationally). So now I go thru the process of letting everyone know my new email addy :| J :D |
Jester (13) | ||
| 195351 | 2003-11-28 00:26:00 | Feel much the same way - on dialup too - but the main reason for not changing is having to tell everybody....... | Chris Randal (521) | ||
| 195352 | 2003-11-28 02:16:00 | > Feel much the same way - on dialup too - but the main > reason for not changing is having to tell everybody....... If you really want to change ISP's, check whether Paradise offers a email only service. That way you can keep your old email addy valid for whatever time frame it takes to convert all your contacts to the new address. That is what I have done. I just check for emails from my old ISP (Actrix) by connecting to the mail POP server from my new ISP connection. You can't however send mail via the old ISP SMTP server since you are connected with another provider. Mine costs me $2/month to keep the old address. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 195353 | 2003-11-28 02:57:00 | It may not be Paradise. Telecom is rolling out new equipment and it seems to have the effect that if you're on a JetStart type plan and are using two PCs on the connection it will pretty much screw up internet usage completely. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 195354 | 2003-11-28 03:24:00 | my isp is not orcon. but I know I got connected via orcon. before I moved from avondale to waterview, I sometimes got shaky connection to au/nz game servers. now in waterview, I think I am in a new ip range. also full speed is 2.6mbit up from 2.0mbit. telecom net upgrade must have not finished yet, since I still got good ping. |
yang11 (170) | ||
| 195355 | 2003-11-28 04:32:00 | At the risk of being ostricized......what exactly are pings?? | albatross (343) | ||
| 195356 | 2003-11-28 04:53:00 | It is a reasonable question, but google would probably have gotten a faster&better answer. The ping time is how long it takes a request to travel from your computer to another computer (eg a game server) and back again. For gaming a high ping time makes the game much harder to play because of the delay between actions & reactions. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 195357 | 2003-11-28 06:09:00 | Thanks BM......Ima learning | albatross (343) | ||
| 195358 | 2003-11-28 06:50:00 | Hi Albatross If you want to try the ping thing out go to your DOS command prompt, type "ping www.ihug.co.nz" - without the " marks - where ihug (or xtra, etc) is your ISP, or the server you want to check your speed. Hit enter, and check the results. It's the most accurate way of measuring your actual connection speed. If you don't know what it means, it looks impressive anyway. |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 195359 | 2003-11-28 09:00:00 | > It may not be Paradise. Telecom is rolling out new > equipment and it seems to have the effect that if > you're on a JetStart type plan and are using two PCs > on the connection it will pretty much screw up > internet usage completely. I don't get your point here. Jetstream does not care if you have 1 or 10 PC's connected. There is only 1 connection to Jetstream and that is the ADSL router which will run at normal speed. Sure if all 10 PC's are sucking data off the net at the same time you may run out of bandwidth on the Jetstream plan but anything Telecom puts in will no effect at all on what is happening now. |
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