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874194 2010-04-10 05:57:00 No, that's wrong!

Not all ISP's are rated the same, and not one is better specifically across the board.

You will find that ISP's such as Orcon significantly out-perform Xnet across the board. Why this is, be it their own gear in the exchanges, or they wholesale more bandwidth on places where they don't have their own gear, I'm not sure. I do know, as-do many others here, that Xnet is a particularly poor ISP, across the board and across the country.
Chilling_Silence (9)
874195 2010-04-12 09:48:00 +1 For that Chill. Has gone from nearly 2MB/S to 0,27MB/s(tonight) over the last 2 years for me. We are rural, but current speed is ridiculous. I'm gone. PPp (9511)
874196 2010-04-12 10:26:00 And the speedtest: www.speedtest.net

If you think that is bad, look at this (homepages.xnet.co.nz).
johnd (85)
874197 2010-04-12 23:21:00 PPp, I'd be keen to know a couple of things:
1) Are you getting a cabinet any time soon according to: telecomwholesale.co.nz
2) What happens when you switch to a more "reputable" ISP such as Orcon or Telecom
3) Make sure when you sign up with an ISP if it's not Orcon or Telecom that you're on an ADSL2+ compatible "plan", by checking it here: http://www.internetchoice.co.nz/
As many ISP's advocate "Full speed down / up", while still only using ADSL1.

Cheers


Chill.
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