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| Thread ID: 108657 | 2010-04-06 07:55:00 | Xnet down | lakewoodlady (103) | PC World Chat |
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| 873577 | 2010-04-06 11:23:00 | Been an Xnet customer for quite a number of years now and been using VoIP for nearly 2 years. There has been an occasional outage - but cannot remember when the last one was before today - probably sometime last year. So it is certainly not my experience that they are always having outages! | johnd (85) | ||
| 873578 | 2010-04-07 13:41:00 | Is it possible that my modem is causing the mini outages? | dian77 (13936) | ||
| 873579 | 2010-05-23 03:18:00 | I am on Xnet river plan and am thinking of going VFx fushion. my first question is, will this do away with the Telecom line charge $50 month? 2nd question, which of the two VFx package should i be on? most of my usage is during the day 8am to 4pm and about 3GB per month. Will i be able to use our existing phone pieces for ordinary calls. My moden is Linksys Wag160n. any help please appreciated. or maybe naked home line and broadband with Telstra clear or Vodafone. | kountryken (14110) | ||
| 873580 | 2010-05-23 03:21:00 | Yep the line charge will be gone. We used to be on Vodafone 20Gb + tolls cost us $95 with the $10 discount or $105 without. Now our bill should be around$80-85 on 20Gb Fusion. Just remember no power = no phone once you go nDSL and VoIP |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 873581 | 2010-05-23 04:28:00 | I was with Xnet for 3yrs, been with Actrix now for maybe the 2nd month. Not had one outage apart from when Wellington CBD had the power outage. I'm also in Wellington :p with a Wellington ISP. Not sure if Telecom upgraded our lines. But when we were with Xnet on our 1st year, we only got 1.8Mbps under thier FS/128 plan - we live 15m from the Telephone Exchange. After two months I switched to 256/128. I had for the the last 2yrs 10 months. Now with Actrix with their FS/128 plans I get 5-6Mbps. Personally I'm not fussed with a lack of the phone, there is always the mobile phone for backup purposes. I don't call enough to break even the $45 landline charge. But then again nDSL they usually charge you ~$20 for the phone. Ie., Telecom line + ADSL vs nDSL is a $20 difference abouts. You will never get totally free Telephone line unless you go for cellular internet or woosh or the higher plans of Telstra cable. Ie., if Telstra is $49.95 you pay that and nothing else. If you wanted a Telephone too, you pay $49.95 + whatever the phone cost. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 873582 | 2010-05-23 05:20:00 | I am with the VFX naked broadband FS/FS and will never again use any service that means I have to deal with Telecom. A suitable VOIP modem/Router is needed, and any standard phone plugs into the modem. All the optional phone services like call waiting, caller id, answer phone etc. are included in the standard service plus a few that are not available on a standard phone. The modem is going to shut down and your phone with it in power cuts unless you have a UPS. The help-desk is locally based and a cut above any other ISP I have tried (except Woosh in their first few weeks of operation). My only gripes are that the modem/router benefits from a reboot every 4 or 5 weeks, and very occasionally the voice call sounds a bit echoing for the other party if I happen to be doing multiple downloads when the call comes in. Pausing and resuming the download seems to cure that. Overseas links are sometimes slow in the evening, but normally good enough to view Youtube without pauses. Basically, I like the service and the cheap toll rates are just icing on the cake. |
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