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| Thread ID: 77750 | 2007-03-21 01:03:00 | xtra broadband data caps-right or overcharging cuz.... | lance4k (4644) | Press F1 |
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| 534711 | 2007-03-21 01:03:00 | why are xtra's data caps so small. their 'explorer' plan comes with 5GB for $49.95 a month with tolls. at slingshot for the same price of $49.95 u get 25GB with tolls. I just found out about this today. So is slingshot loosing money offering 25GB,and is telecom overcharging for only 5GB?? |
lance4k (4644) | ||
| 534712 | 2007-03-21 01:35:00 | why are xtra's data caps so small. their 'explorer' plan comes with 5GB for $49.95 a month with tolls. at slingshot for the same price of $49.95 u get 25GB with tolls. I just found out about this today. So is slingshot loosing money offering 25GB,and is telecom overcharging for only 5GB?? Xtra are usually more expensive for most things. Slinghot isn't perfect, and I have had a number of outages. Slingshots support is also poor. They take over a week to reply to email questions (xtra usually reply within a day or two), and for phone help you can be waiting for ages to talk to someone. They also don't update their network status page when problems occur. Instead they tend to have a permanent message that says their are intimittent broadband problems. Are slingshot making money from offering 25GB. Well for about 2 months after christmas, they offered additional bandwdth for half price, which made 10GB $5, and 50GB for $20. They have since put their prices back up. If they were offering this half priced bandwidth at cost, they must be making at least 100% profit on the additional bandwidth they sell. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 534713 | 2007-03-21 01:41:00 | Xtra is the most expensive ISP out that is why. Now another thing the explorer plan is FS/128k while the 25gb slingshot plan is 256k/128k. But I find most people don't like the quality of slingshot high pings etc. | trinsic (6945) | ||
| 534714 | 2007-03-21 02:48:00 | Yowsers... for $50 I get 22GB on Xnet. No sign up, no hidden fees. Though it's a little less than slingshot |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 534715 | 2007-03-21 03:49:00 | Disregard my last post I mixed up plans :) Thing with Slingshot is you need $10 tolls while xNet doesn't. |
trinsic (6945) | ||
| 534716 | 2007-03-21 04:21:00 | The caps we have are not enough to browse videos each day for the entire month. I'm not greedy or anything but some of us here use less and some use a lot. I personally believe having 60gb-120gb a month should be enough. | msnforum (11610) | ||
| 534717 | 2007-03-21 04:31:00 | The caps we have are not enough to browse videos each day for the entire month. I'm not greedy or anything but some of us here use less and some use a lot. I personally believe having 60gb-120gb a month should be enough. It's user pays with broadband, high users pay more for using more bandwidth. You should be able to get 100GB of bandwidth for under $100, and this would compare favourably with Sky TV prices. TVNZs videos also seem quite bloated in size, as you should be able to get a full 45 minute program into a 300-350 MB file, widescreen size. |
rogerp (6864) | ||
| 534718 | 2007-03-21 04:36:00 | It's user pays with broadband, high users pay more for using more bandwidth. You should be able to get 100GB of bandwidth for under $100, and this would compare favourably with Sky TV prices. TVNZs videos also seem quite bloated in size, as you should be able to get a full 45 minute program into a 300-350 MB file, widescreen size. Yes, that is the High Definition version. I used to download episodes of http links so I know most of the stuff. I remembered once downloading 10 episodes in one day, which is about 3.5gb. |
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