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Thread ID: 115949	2011-02-11 01:54:00	How's Xnet VoIP in Wanganui ?	Organicpete (133)	Press F1

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1177040	2011-02-11 01:54:00	Telecon has pushed me over the edge and I'm weighing up the options. Already on xnet broadish band. Contemplating getting the phone too. Just wondering if any locals use xnet VoIP ? Not so keen power supply reliance that it has. cheers for any actual local experience :) Pete	Organicpete (133)
1177041	2011-02-12 04:31:00	Xnet's voip is called Fusion, they don't have a homephone plan. So you will need an ATA adapter to get connected to their Fusion plan, as well as a modem/router. I used to be on Fusion with Xnet, but they started charging an extra $20 because of the rural/non rural thing. I am in Taupo and am now with Slingshot and have NDSL for $82 per month and an "italk" voip plan. I get 500 free minutes per month. I don't see that it would be any different living in Wanganui. LL	lakewoodlady (103)
1177042	2011-02-12 09:47:00	Depends on your connection speed. I left them because of low service levels and a dreadful phone line. I suspect it was a connection speed issue. Probably if you can watch Youtube vids right through without any pauses you could be OK. Some providers just get it right and others don't, I am with Orcon now and everything is good.	PPp (9511)
1177043	2011-02-12 10:11:00	Fusion is their Naked DSL, I think their actual calling 'service' is VFX. They have limited support for anything outside the scope of what they sell, and it's certainly a home / small office kind of product from my limited use of it, but overall it was relatively OK. I think you're more likely to find issues with their broadband rather than their VFX service :)	Chilling_Silence (9)
1177044	2011-02-12 19:33:00	We use it in Nelson and it's almost flawless once I turned on QoS in the router, never had any dropouts, call clarity locally and overseas is good (as good as a normal phone line). Just don't ask what we pay though we are on a very special deal that stepson scored in a competiton so nDSL and 40GB free until end April when we might look at changing ISP as speeds aren't the best	gary67 (56)
1177045	2011-02-13 09:07:00	Xnet's voip is called Fusion, they don't have a homephone plan. So you will need an ATA adapter to get connected to their Fusion plan, as well as a modem/router. I used to be on Fusion with Xnet, but they started charging an extra $20 because of the rural/non rural thing. I am in Taupo and am now with Slingshot and have NDSL for $82 per month and an "italk" voip plan. I get 500 free minutes per month. I don't see that it would be any different living in Wanganui. LL Thanks ! I'm comparing Slingshot and Xnet. cheers	Organicpete (133)
1177046	2011-02-13 09:16:00	Depends on your connection speed. I left them because of low service levels and a dreadful phone line. I suspect it was a connection speed issue. Probably if you can watch Youtube vids right through without any pauses you could be OK. Some providers just get it right and others don't, I am with Orcon now and everything is good. Thanks ! I have a poverty plan atm capped at 30kbps. Just ran the xnet speedtest gave 123kbps down and 64 up...:) ping of 200 :D I suppose 10pm sunday night is heavy traffic time It was 260 the other day so unthrottled I could presumably watch youtube right through	Organicpete (133)
1177047	2011-02-13 09:18:00	Fusion is their Naked DSL, I think their actual calling 'service' is VFX. They have limited support for anything outside the scope of what they sell, and it's certainly a home / small office kind of product from my limited use of it, but overall it was relatively OK. I think you're more likely to find issues with their broadband rather than their VFX service :) Thanks for that explanation, I have been very happy with Xnet 'broadband' for 5 years	Organicpete (133)
1177048	2011-02-13 09:22:00	We use it in Nelson and it's almost flawless once I turned on QoS in the router, never had any dropouts, call clarity locally and overseas is good (as good as a normal phone line). Just don't ask what we pay though we are on a very special deal that stepson scored in a competiton so nDSL and 40GB free until end April when we might look at changing ISP as speeds aren't the best Thanks :) I need to track down an actual Wanganui user next. Getting ready to type the 'Why I am leaving after 20 years" letter to Dr Paul Reynolds :D Pete	Organicpete (133)
1177049	2011-02-13 17:50:00	200ms is useless for VoIP. Under 50ms is *ideal*. Under 100ms is "acceptable". Over and you're going to have a terribly difficult time making heads or tails of what's being said, IF the call stays active for long enough. Also, doesn't look like you'll have enough bandwidth to run VoIP. An uncompressed call uses approx 84kbps upload / downloads (Including IP overheads). Compressing a call with g729 will take that down to around 45kbps, but still, it's cutting it incredibly fine. I wouldn't type that letter up just yet ;) Do something about the pings, and a plan-change may fix the throughput.	Chilling_Silence (9)
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