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421726 2006-01-16 21:05:00 On advice from threads here I have signed up to xnet express plan $29.95 256/128Kb and 1 GB limit. It goes live tomorrow.

I need to get advice from broadband users about national traffic and what I can expect to find nationaly.

Game servers
Mirror sites
Local downloads etc etc
apparition (3207)
421727 2006-01-16 21:06:00 oops forgot to subscribe - ignore this post apparition (3207)
421728 2006-01-16 21:38:00 On advice from threads here I have signed up to xnet express plan $29.95 256/128Kb and 1 GB limit. It goes live tomorrow.

I need to get advice from broadband users about national traffic and what I can expect to find nationaly.

Game servers
Mirror sites
Local downloads etc etc

I don't know about game sites, or much about mirror sites and downloading, but in my experience over the last three months with Xnet, just general browsing round news sites and similar, the national traffic component saves me about 100 - 200 MB a month (56.26MB this month so far, and I've been away for 5 days). Every little bit helps.

Good luck with Xnet.

Lizard
Lizard (2409)
421729 2006-01-16 22:12:00 thanks for the info. Do you get a report on your traffic and where it's come from?

as you've said how much you've saved so far
apparition (3207)
421730 2006-01-16 22:33:00 thanks for the info. Do you get a report on your traffic and where it's come from?

as you've said how much you've saved so far

Xnet provide an account page where you can check the traffic you've used so far - it breaks it down to local, national, and international, with your cap and the total traffic used accountable to your cap. I imagine it's similar to what other ISPs provide.

Their webmail function is also quite good, providing you with a diary, notes and tasks facilities similar to MS Outlook. You can export data from Outlook in CSV format, and import it to the webmail client to access while roaming. I don't know if other ISPs provide this.

Cheers

Lizard
Lizard (2409)
421731 2006-01-16 22:39:00 If you're looking for national game and download servers...i got some 4 ya :)

http://www.gpdownloads.co.nz/ - gameplanet (game servers + downloads)
http://files.inspire.net.nz/ - inspire net has some game demos etc

If you wanna find NZ servers for games, I suggest downloading ASE (all seeing eye), with that you can see all the local servers for any specific game you have installed.

Ususally there's some Xtra servers, maybe one Ihug, few iconz, and gameplanet.
jamesyboi (6579)
421732 2006-01-16 23:16:00 I think orcon may also have a few game servers stu161204 (123)
421733 2006-01-17 01:47:00 Thanks guys

I actually got hooked up early. There was a message on my answering machine when I went home for lunch ad then 10 minutes later I'm all go.
apparition (3207)
421734 2006-01-17 04:13:00 Get yourself a DC++ client, such as revconnect. Then join these hubs:
dc.silverserver.co.nz
dc.phrozen.co.nz

they are NZ only hubs so the traffic is national.
Prescott (11)
421735 2006-01-17 05:35:00 I wonder if I do something similar with Shareaza apparition (3207)
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