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| Thread ID: 73934 | 2006-11-06 04:36:00 | Xnet Release new Plans | stu161204 (123) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 496769 | 2006-11-06 07:55:00 | Useless that they didn't keep slow speeds with free national cap. I know you can stay on your old plan, but I think they should have kept them available. Most ISPs are only offering either 256k or FS down, and 128k or FS up. Nothing in the middle for people who can only get ~2Mbit downloads. Damn stupid of them all. | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 496770 | 2006-11-06 08:25:00 | Xtra - FS = $60 (10Gb - really their unlimited) Ihug - FS = $50 (10Gb) Xnet - FS - $54 (10Gb) This takes into account being charged $10 extra with Telecom for not having phone with them, no difference with Xnet for not having phone, and being let off the $10 with Ihug as I have phone with them. The most I've ever used in a month is 8Gb, sometimes use 5Gb but average 3Gb. I wouldn't bother with FS as I won't get anywhere near it, I rarely even get 1Mbps, but I bet the old speed plans will disappear after a while. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 496771 | 2006-11-06 08:30:00 | Yep there new plans suck! Yes users are able to stay on there old plans,which is what i will be doing. Just if you are a gamer you will have the choice to have interleave turned ON or OFF on the new plans. But no choice if you stay on the old, it will remain on. This is a big disappointment. After offering the best BB plans around, Xnet have now done a full 180 switch. If I can stay on my current plan, I will. Does anyone know where it says this? Typical - last week I was excited about the new plans due to be released, and even told people to watch this space, as Xnet had such good offerings in the past. Must be the commentator's curse... :annoyed: Come on Xnet - you can do much better than this. |
Lizard (2409) | ||
| 496772 | 2006-11-06 09:10:00 | If I can stay on my current plan, I will. Does anyone know where it says this? www.gpforums.co.nz The user Wendles is a girl who works at Xnet. It actually works out slightly more expensive for both me and the Xnet plan my brother is on. Unless we choose 256k. He isn't too thrilled either. I think we'll stay put, but what do you bet the old plans will disappear after a while - like the old 128k plans did. That would suck, especially as I only get around 600k speed anyway. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 496773 | 2006-11-06 09:51:00 | I wish telecom would scrap the ISP change fee so that we could vote with our wallets. You can..... Most ISPs waive the churn fee anyway... Even Xnet.... |
jesseycy (1046) | ||
| 496774 | 2006-11-06 10:53:00 | I think we'll stay put, but what do you bet the old plans will disappear after a while That wendles woman reckons they will stay around "indefinitely" |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 496775 | 2006-11-06 19:30:00 | That wendles woman reckons they will stay around "indefinitely" Because thats what shes been told. No-one has old plans available now if you are new and joining up. People do change ISPs...so after a while there will only be a few still on old plans. Then they'll ditch them. Its happened before..... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 496776 | 2006-11-06 20:17:00 | I rang them. I said what if we chnage to the new FS and we still only get the same speed? Can we change back? Answer: No, the old plans don't exist anymore. You can stay on them now, but any new customers can't have them nor can you change back to them. Because Telecom are charging them more for FS whether you are on it or not - so they are losing money on customers on the old plans. Telecom is also charging for local traffic too - thats why the new plans count local traffic as well. So long term - they will ditch the old plans because they will lose too much money on it. I knew that would be the case - they can't keep up the loss. Which is a bummer as I seriously doubt I'd see any improvement in my speed at all. I'd be happy if I could make 2Mbps even - but I suspect I'd still be stuck on my 600k. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 496777 | 2006-11-06 20:27:00 | It looks like the plans have been very carefully designed. As far as I can work out, the best deal goes to those people on the old 256K plan, who can now get almost twice the data for the same price - everyone else has to pay more. A "cunning" plan to get people to accept slower speeds (and put less strain on the network)? | Lizard (2409) | ||
| 496778 | 2006-11-08 11:06:00 | So... I am go large sucker... I had some fun downloading and browsing youtube and my meterage went way up... 4 gig in 1 day and another 1 gig today.. So now (since late afternoon) my youtube downloads are at 2kbps. They usually run a lot faster... I checked my nzdsl rate and it says 4014kbps... so the speed is there and they have THROTTLED IT RIGHT BACK for video streaming (or whatever youtube is classed under by xtra). My understanding of xtra go large must be wrong. I thought they would ONLY throttle if you used 700mg or more between 4pm and midnite AND that they would TELL YOU when they started to do so. I try to keep my HEAVY use out of the 4-12 timeframe and yet I am STILL throttled by the big black monster in the corner. I may phone the buggas tomorrow and ASK in 4 letter words what the fark is going on. I am only new to xtra BB having been a dialup dummy for too long, thats why I am going full tit on bb now...;) |
zoo (11398) | ||
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