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| Thread ID: 68337 | 2006-04-25 01:24:00 | Broadband Plans & Pricing. | Poppa John (284) | PC World Chat |
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| 449261 | 2006-04-25 01:24:00 | Hi All........Sometime ago I recall seeing a link on here, to a Plan & Pricing Comparison site. Free. Consumer is not. I did a search of the Forum but nothing came up. Can anyone suggest owt? PJ :confused: | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 449262 | 2006-04-25 08:12:00 | This? www.pressf1.co.nz Or? www.pressf1.co.nz Or perhaps it was the Netguide site? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 449263 | 2006-04-25 08:41:00 | pctech.........Neither of those, unfortunately. It was a chart of comparisons I was looking for. Thanks anyway. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 449264 | 2006-04-25 09:21:00 | Well I found something, & looked at Xtra, Orcon & Ihug. As far as I can see, there is very little difference between anybody. Quite disappointing really. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 449265 | 2006-04-25 10:54:00 | The difference would, for us, be having to change from telecom for tolls. Where we live, $20 a month lets us call the city free, well sort of free, unlimited, but no where else can we do that, so if we went to the likes of Ihug/Clear etc, and had to change our tolls, that would make things minimum $20 dearer for broadband. Cos I also done a comparison not long ago, but going through the back of the netguide, and going to all the websites and seeing who offered what, and that was a big cost to us, and Xtra's $29.95 was to me a waste of money, as I would blow the cap so quick. I go to a photo site a lot, upload and download stuff to it, and for that price, I would be lucky to be on broadband for a week, then the rest of the time, back to dial up speed. |
supergran (108) | ||
| 449266 | 2006-04-25 11:38:00 | Well I found something, & looked at Xtra, Orcon & Ihug. As far as I can see, there is very little difference between anybody. That’s northing new :groan:, as all most all the ISP's here in NZ resell Xtra / Telcome plans so the only real difference between ISP's are price (some are cheaper then others) & the bandwidth caps there offer, the rest of it is control by Telcome / Xtra. The only other offers of Broadband here in NZ are wireless i.e. woosh etc… & cable telstraclear / wiredcountry. |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 449267 | 2006-04-25 11:40:00 | I go to a photo site a lot, upload and download stuff to it, and for that price, I would be lucky to be on broadband for a week, then the rest of the time, back to dial up speed. More like you will be paying 2c per megabyte if you went over your 200MB data cap. |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 449268 | 2006-04-27 11:09:00 | Stu that makes it scarier still, guess i will be sticking with dial up awhile longer. ;) | supergran (108) | ||
| 449269 | 2006-04-28 00:06:00 | Stu that makes it scarier still, guess i will be sticking with dial up awhile longer . ;) I can understand why so many NZers are staying with dialup . You DO get more for your money, in my opinion, if you do not need the so-called faster broadband . For us it was the need to have an open phone line for my medical alarm & using two computers it was faster when sharing broadband as against dialup . Telecom's new plans appear to be better, but it seems to me that they are giving with one hand & taking back with the other . Until all other ISPs have unrestricted use of the landlines, there will be no TRUE competition . PJ :2cents: :annoyed: |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 449270 | 2006-04-28 01:21:00 | It's a real bummer now. I'm with Orcon and would have gone to their 3Meg/128 -10Gig plan but for the fact that they now want $10/5Gig rather than $5 / 5 gig as they used to . Thought of moving but looking around this now seems pretty standard with all ISPs. So I'm still on the 256/128 40 gig plan | paulw (1826) | ||
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