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| Thread ID: 123625 | 2012-03-07 20:24:00 | Orcon takes fast broadband offer to consumers | Bobh (5192) | PC World Chat |
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| 1263634 | 2012-03-07 20:24:00 | This gives me an idea of what to expect to pay for ultra-fast-broadband over a fibre network. I note that there is a residential entry level service that will be $75 a month. At this stage the packages cover the ultra-fast-broadband centres of Whangarei, Auckland, Rotorua, Palmerston North, Wellington and Blenheim. No mention of Invercargill yet. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1263635 | 2012-03-07 20:40:00 | www.orcon.net.nz Fast: 30Mbps down / 10Mbps up $75 – 30Gb cap $89 – 60Gb cap $99 – 100Gb cap $199 – 1,000Gb cap Super-Fast: 100Mbps down / 50Mbps up $110 – 30Gb cap $124 – 60Gb cap $134 – 100Gb cap $234 – 1,000Gb cap So... we're constantly told the reason for our overpriced internet and limited caps is the cost of the international data. The above pricing shows that we're fed bullsh!+ In reality, the high fees we've been paying are for the ISPs infrastructure. The cost of the data itself is very modest if you consider the difference of $100 between a 100Gb plan and a 1000Gb plan... indicating that the difference of 900Gb of data costs only $100 (or less). ie 9Gb for $1.00 However, before anyone gets too excited, lets look at whether the Gb (as opposed to GB) is talking about bits, not bytes. All the same, it suggests that my current 8GB plan (64Gb) should only cost $8 in terms of the actual data costs. Still at $2388 for a year it's still far too expensive for my use. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1263636 | 2012-03-07 21:18:00 | Threads merged :) Yeah the cost per-GB for data isn't *that* high at a raw cost to an ISP. Entry-level speeds not much different from VDSL2, but VDSL2 is available to a *lot* more people, right now too, at the same 30 / 10mbps speeds. I get 22mbps down right now, not too bad, and 9.5mbps up. I think they're also counting on consumers not going much over the 100GB, coz like you notice that plan jump is *huge*. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1263637 | 2012-03-08 00:04:00 | Wonder what the installation price will be ?? | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1263638 | 2012-03-08 00:06:00 | Its free. Fibre runs through Orcon Genius, I never paid a anything to switch to Genius. For me changing to fibre is nothing more than a phone call once its available in my area :) |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1263639 | 2012-03-08 00:27:00 | what will the actual real world speeds be , between NZ & US on these plans ?? Do these plans allow throttling by the ISP ?? |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1263640 | 2012-03-08 00:32:00 | They allow some decent oversubscribing, lets put it that way... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1263641 | 2012-03-08 01:40:00 | Its free. Fibre runs through Orcon Genius, I never paid a anything to switch to Genius. For me changing to fibre is nothing more than a phone call once its available in my area :) Not sure about genius!!! With this.. a phone call goes thro Genius over the Orcon Net. How does it connect to whoever I am ringing? The other Telecom sockets in the house dont work thro Genius, their blurb says. I have my doubts about my Medical Alarm as well. If the Internet goes down you lose the phone as well? How does the Genius connect to the Internet without the copper line? PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1263642 | 2012-03-08 01:46:00 | Not sure about genius!!! With this.. a phone call goes thro Genius over the Orcon Net. How does it connect to whoever I am ringing? The other Telecom sockets in the house dont work thro Genius, their blurb says. I have my doubts about my Medical Alarm as well. If the Internet goes down you lose the phone as well? How does the Genius connect to the Internet without the copper line? PJ It runs on a naked DSL connection PJ. Not sure how it connects to who you are ringing but it does, you dial like any other phone. I have plugged the Genius modem into all sockets at some point, all of them work. I do not know about the Medical Alarm, best to talk to Orcon about that. It does connect to a standard phone jack. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1263643 | 2012-03-08 02:48:00 | I don't think any service that uses a physical phone line such as a monitored alarm or medical alarm will work over naked DSL unless the ISP's have come up with a solution I haven't heard of. If they have it would require rewiring the house a little so the router could feed the old phone jacks a signal. A bit of confusing marketing around naked DSL not requiring a phone line has lead some people to believe it doesn't connect to the telecom cabling. This is incorrect, it still requires a physical line back to a cabinet or telephone exchange, it just isn't connected to the telephone equipment when it gets there and therefore doesn't supply any phone service seperate to the ADSL. Traditional ADSL is split by filters at both ends and connected to the telephone exchange at one end and the customers phone at the other as well as a seperate connection to the broadband equipment and customers modem. Naked DSL isn't split and dedicates the line to broadband only. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
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