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Thread ID: 141698	2016-02-06 08:37:00	Best ISP's to jump to at the moment?	8ftmetalhaed (14526)	PC World Chat

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1415590	2016-02-06 08:37:00	Hi you lot, Just sitting here not playing videogames because Orcon's exchange decided to crap its pants and give me 700 MS delay for anything that's not ping traffic. Following their constant failure to make our voip phone ring in our out (plays a busy tone instead) and them overcharging for 6 months after my plan changed price and they didn't inform me, but then when the price increased by 5 dollars they happily added that to my ALREADY overpaying bill, this is really near the last bloody straw. My sync speeds have bounced between 10 mbps and 44 mbps (on vdsl no less) and while the ping results to any site are fine, it seems any non ping traffic gets completely neutered. So, I was considering spark - as much as I dislike them, I've been with Vodafone before and work with them quite alot at work and know their network falls over frequently so don't feel like going with them. I'm not sure about the smaller ISP's - I like the look of MyRepublic but I don't know how good the smaller guys are. Particularly since many of them require contracts and I don't want to have to fight my way out of a bad deal if they fail to deliver a service. Any opinions guys? Also, to get technical - Modem page reports my current sync speed - B0 Traffic Type: PTM B0 Line Rate - Upstream (Kbps): 450 B0 Line Rate - Downstream (Kbps): 11344 Tracing route to nzherald.co.nz [203.99.69.69] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.20.1 2 672 ms 719 ms 667 ms erx2.nct.orcon.net.nz [60.234.8.15] 3 28 ms 28 ms 29 ms as9790.akl-ix.nz [43.243.21.3] 4 28 ms 29 ms 29 ms as4826.akl-ix.nz [43.243.21.27] 5 30 ms 28 ms 30 ms as24324.cust.bdr01.alb01.akl.VOCUS.net.nz [175.4 5.93.74] Tracing route to erx2.nct.orcon.net.nz [60.234.8.15] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.20.1 2 28 ms 29 ms 28 ms erx2.nct.orcon.net.nz [60.234.8.15] And then Tracing route to as9790.akl-ix.nz [43.243.21.3] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.20.1 2 598 ms 648 ms 717 ms erx2.nct.orcon.net.nz [60.234.8.15] 3 28 ms 28 ms 28 ms as9790.akl-ix.nz [43.243.21.3] and yet despite all of this pings are fine: Pinging nzherald.co.nz [203.99.69.69] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 203.99.69.69: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=246 Reply from 203.99.69.69: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=246	8ftmetalhaed (14526)
1415591	2016-02-06 19:00:00	Orcon's exchange decided to crap its pants .... I've been with Vodafone before and work with them quite alot at work and know their network falls over frequently so don't feel like going with them. Orcon is owned by Slingshot now. There are really 3 main companies these days. Spark Slingshot Vodafone All the others got bought out by mainly the last 2. Actrix still, 2 degrees and that's about it for independents.	pctek (84)
1415592	2016-02-06 19:11:00	Very happy with 2D joined when they were still Snap can only get ADSL2 here though	gary67 (56)
1415593	2016-02-06 19:58:00	Spark works without fault for me.	CliveM (6007)
1415594	2016-02-06 22:07:00	I recommend Flip. Almost never had a problem.	Greg (193)
1415595	2016-02-07 00:20:00	Hm. leaning towards Spark. Was going to jump to them previously, the only thing that stopped me was orcon saying they needed 30 days notice despite me not being on a contract. Cheapskate ****ers. It's really annoying as well, since my ping results to this stupid device are bouncing all over the place. They're going between 30 MS and timing out completely (which would mean over a full second) so it means online gaming is nigh-on impossible, and i'm sure it isn't my router that's at fault, since pinging one side of that device in the exchange yesterday was giving a completely different result to pinging the other side.	8ftmetalhaed (14526)
1415596	2016-02-07 06:21:00	I've been with Actrix for about 14 years. They often get voted the best ISP. Good service from kiwi guys you can talk to. Why support one of the big companies that just give enough customer service so that they don't lose anymore customers?	Digby (677)
1415597	2016-02-08 22:39:00	It's really annoying as well, since my ping results to this stupid device are bouncing all over the place. They're going between 30 MS and timing out completely (which would mean over a full second) so it means online gaming is nigh-on impossible, and i'm sure it isn't my router that's at fault, since pinging one side of that device in the exchange yesterday was giving a completely different result to pinging the other side. Yeah sounds like an el-cheapo router at fault there too. Not that I'm excusing Orcon, I've had friends on VDSL2 with them who can't even do 720p YouTube videos, but still... Expect to get yourself a new router.	Chilling_Silence (9)
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