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| Thread ID: 114495 | 2010-12-05 10:05:00 | Trouble with Telecom | Bozo (8540) | PC World Chat |
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| 1159076 | 2010-12-05 22:48:00 | Yea it sucks. I have had an utter gutsfull from Telecom though can't switch because no other ISP offers a datacap that suits my flats requirements for a reasonable price. Bah, lesser of 2 evils I guess. :devil Just wondering what Telecom plan are you on?, as Telecom data is relatively expensive and easy to beat price wise last time I looked. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 1159077 | 2010-12-05 22:55:00 | I'm on the Broadband Pro plan. For those who have suggested that other plans are better priced etc, what are you on out of interested? I pay $132/month (got it wrong in my original post) for 40GB of data with nation-wide free calling at any time. Personally haven't been able to find anything similar-ish. Some plans aren't bad but we really do need that 40gb+ a month :( |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 1159078 | 2010-12-05 23:13:00 | I'm on the Broadband Pro plan. For those who have suggested that other plans are better priced etc, what are you on out of interested? I pay $132/month (got it wrong in my original post) for 40GB of data with nation-wide free calling at any time. Personally haven't been able to find anything similar-ish. Some plans aren't bad but we really do need that 40gb+ a month :( Hmm well, TelstraClear have a very good rep for quality of service at least as good as Telecom prob better, (phone support sucks however). www.telstraclear.co.nz 2x25GB data packs and your at 50gig for $135 ($75base with phone line+$30+$30), they have extended calling so not sure how that competes with Telecom Best of all you are supporting Telecom less. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 1159079 | 2010-12-05 23:17:00 | Orcon do 45GB of broadband + phoneline and unlimited national calling for $137 | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1159080 | 2010-12-05 23:22:00 | They're crap routers that overheat lots and drop under load. Even the v7 sucks. Basically, if it has "ADSL", it won't do Tomato. You can get yourself something like an AM300 in Halfbridge, or even just a regular 1-port ADSL modem of some description and suffer from double-NAT if you really don't care. Personally, get a Linksys AM300 + WRT54GL. Easy, and will only set you back approx $200 :) 200 bucks lol I am not a rich moderator |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1159081 | 2010-12-06 02:25:00 | Neither am I. If I were paid for all the time I'm on here, over the last 8-odd years I'd have made absolutely nothing :p Though, they do take me to the occasional lunch and send the odd prize my way which is always a nice token gesture :) Do the AM300 + WL520GU. Don't use Tomato, use Gargoyle, and give each device a daily / weekly / monthly bandwidth limit, and you can throttle them back to dial-up after they breach it, or kill it altogether. Whatever floats your boat :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1159082 | 2010-12-06 03:01:00 | Do the AM300 + WL520GU. Don't use Tomato, use Gargoyle, and give each device a daily / weekly / monthly bandwidth limit, and you can throttle them back to dial-up after they breach it, or kill it altogether. Whatever floats your boat :) Cheers for that, will grab a AM300 later on this week. Gargoyle - can't say I have heard of it :xmouth: time to do some reading. Muhaha, I will have the power :nerd: |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 1159083 | 2010-12-06 05:59:00 | Its FTW! It's like Tomato but 100% open-source, and it has per-device bandwidth restrictions | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1159084 | 2010-12-13 03:40:00 | Just want to drag this thread up again - there isn't too much dust on it yet... Had some major connection problems over the weekend (Telecom and Thompson 585 v7) so rang to get it sorted. (It would happen on launch weekend!!!) Was talking to the help desk person in Manila and I mentioned that the modem gets pretty hot and she asked me whether I turn the modem off when I'm not using it!!! What??!!! I told her no, the modem is online all the time and she seemed to think that this might be causing the dropouts.... :waughh: However when I eventually was escalated to a guy in Level 2 support he scoffed at the idea and said his modem also ran hot, but he didn't know why, since the power supply was separate. Does ANYONE switch their BB modem off, ever? Except when they need to reboot it, of course... (The level 2 guy seems to have sorted the problem - I was on an "AM profile" and he moved me to an "RM profile" - allegedly lowers the line rate and introduces some 'noise' to stabilise the connection. Well, the connection seems to have stabilised, but the speed hasn't dropped, so I'm happy. Still at 13Mbits down!! :thumbs:) |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1159085 | 2010-12-13 03:49:00 | There are some rookies working helpdesk jobs! :rolleyes: Mine never ever gets switched off. Rebooted maybe once a month just for the sake of it. |
wratterus (105) | ||
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