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| Thread ID: 120650 | 2011-09-19 06:37:00 | If not Orcon, then who? | John Calvert (16516) | Press F1 |
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| 1232190 | 2011-09-20 01:43:00 | who's the best all round broadband ISP, I mean speed and reliability of connection, service when things go wrong, and reasonable price, or at least value for money. Ah the perfect ISP. There's no such thing. I have been with quite a few. Currently back at Telecom. Mostly because at least if there was any hassle they were faster. Money, it's comparable. Speed and reliabilty - OK, but it can depend where you are too. |
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| 1232191 | 2011-09-20 02:12:00 | Eh, I just stick with Telecom. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1232192 | 2011-09-20 02:13:00 | Me too. | linw (53) | ||
| 1232193 | 2011-09-20 07:20:00 | Thanks to all who replied. | John Calvert (16516) | ||
| 1232194 | 2011-09-23 00:16:00 | I have accounts with both Orcon and Telecom. Orcon hosts my domain name and also my back-up email, and Telecom provides my DSL (jetstream). Both have been pretty much 100% reliable for many years. I can't remember any outages on either service other than Telecom's brief problem a few months back. I am inclined to think that speed variations and dropouts might be localised infrastructure problems, since probably they are all using the same exchanges, cables and roadside boxes. I don't know how much influence an independent ISP that is purchasing bandwidth from Telecom can have on the final service delivery. Does non-Telecom ISP traffic have to pass through servers or switches maintained by each independent ISP? Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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| 1232195 | 2011-09-23 00:22:00 | I was with Orcon but changed to Actrix. No problems to speak of with Actrix. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1232196 | 2011-09-23 00:34:00 | I am inclined to think that speed variations and dropouts might be localised infrastructure problems, since probably they are all using the same exchanges, cables and roadside boxes. I don't know how much influence an independent ISP that is purchasing bandwidth from Telecom can have on the final service delivery. Does non-Telecom ISP traffic have to pass through servers or switches maintained by each independent ISP? Cheers Billy 8-{) For the better part, most DSL goes over Telecoms kit. A reseller / wholesalers size can have a lot of effect. Everybody oversubscribes, but the larger ISP's generally have a larger 'pool' of users so that if a small handful happen to start utilizing more bandwidth than usual during peak times, it's less likely to bugger up the masses. |
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