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| Thread ID: 54028 | 2005-02-02 10:52:00 | Orcon's Bitstream woes | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 320819 | 2005-02-02 23:48:00 | people should beable to customize their plans to suit their specific needsHow do you expect that to be managed? | ninja (1671) | ||
| 320820 | 2005-02-02 23:50:00 | That would be excellent. Personally i would ask for 1000 hours of free highspeed feed. :rolleyes: |
Metla (12) | ||
| 320821 | 2005-02-03 01:47:00 | As usual Greg, the greedy ones spoil it for everyone else. EVERY BIT COSTS REAL MONEY. It's that simple. To make a plan affordable, it has to be based on the assumption that users will make reasonable demands. A few greedies will wreck it. A literally "unlimited" plan isn't possible. There is only so much bandwidth in the cables. And it all COSTS REAL MONEY. Any approach to an unlimited plan has to come with an "unlimited" cost. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 320822 | 2005-02-03 02:20:00 | So the users who paid for and used a service as it was advertised are the bad guys? heh? ruined it? Amazing. Whether the fault was incompetence or naivete the fault lies with Orcon. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 320823 | 2005-02-03 09:10:00 | Maybe what Orcon should have done was to cap the number of people signing up to the service. Then perhaps they wouldn't have been faced with these "performance" issues. If the problems really are down to network congestion, then surely they could have foreseen this and capped membership at a reasonable level, albeit temporarily. THEN, after explaining why they had capped membership, it would be time to jump on the bug-Telecom-for-more-bandwith bandwagon. All of a sudden Telecom are the bad guys for not providing Orcon with an adequate service to provide to customers. Instead we now have Orcon as the bad guys and Telecom laughing all the way to the bank (again). |
manicminer (4219) | ||
| 320824 | 2005-02-03 09:19:00 | people should beable to customize their plans to suit their specific needs Well I've always seen the Orcon bitstream as an ideal service for heavy users, especially for those not bothered with gaming. I can live with crap latency as I don't game. I don't surf the web that much either. So bitstream is ideal for me. I don't even mind the slow speed (256kb/s) just as long as I get the data I want. Perhaps all those low data users moaning about the 'leechers' are on the wrong plan. You'd be far better off using another service with better latency and a lower data limit to ensure your quality of service. |
manicminer (4219) | ||
| 320825 | 2005-02-03 19:35:00 | "we are planning to release a range of data capped plans in the near future that will help to bring on many lower-data using customers to balance out the network.". So it's goodbye to uncapped data plans then. Predictable I suppose." THis seems to be the typical NZ way of solving the problem. Everytime we have a chance to move into the 21st century BB we get pulled back into the 20th century thinking of "You can't have speed and uncapped BB" Has the current GVT brainwashed people so much in this country that 2nd rate now must be the norn?? |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 320826 | 2005-02-03 23:21:00 | Out of interest is their a website that publicise different ISP here in NZ and abroad about their speeds, lag is it called? When we use the ping command. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 320827 | 2005-02-03 23:40:00 | Ninja could add it to his FAQ ;) | Murray P (44) | ||
| 320828 | 2005-02-04 01:36:00 | The international Situation discuss.futuremark.com |
Metla (12) | ||
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