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Thread ID: 62983 2005-10-25 12:17:00 Is ihug the best ADSL? bizzack (7739) Press F1
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399216 2005-10-25 12:17:00 Im currently with xtra, and they suck, lots of people ahve been telling me that ihug is the best, is it true? is there a better isp in NZ?
I use it for playing Counter Strike, and dowloading, im a pretty heavy user...and share conneciton with flatmates...
does anyone have any suggestions, i think its time to change, but i've got no idea about BB in NZ...
thanks!
bizzack (7739)
399217 2005-10-25 18:37:00 In terms of speed and data cap, they seem to be the best. I'm switching over from Xtra now, because I can get 8x the speed, and 7x the data cap, at the same price I'm paying for Xtra. somebody (208)
399218 2005-10-25 19:19:00 If only an ISP would bring back the unlimited national traffic plans - they would be awesome for playing games because the latency is too high to play on overseas servers, but there is nothing wrong with NZ servers. Greven (91)
399219 2005-10-25 19:40:00 Yes. They are the best JJJJJ (528)
399220 2005-10-25 20:14:00 In the latest Consumer Mag. they had the results of a Survey conducted by its members. This is the overall results. Inspire, E3, Actrix, Maxnet, Quicksilver, Iconz, Infogen, Paradise, Ihug, Clear, Orcon, Freenet, Slingshot, Woosh, KOL, Xtra, Wave. For more info subscribe to Consumer.

Trevor :)
Trev (427)
399221 2005-10-25 20:49:00 Yes ihug is the best i ever used. at least, its speed quality is much better than xtra. i have one at home, and it's sharing with 3 other roomates, the speed never junk.
my recommend, if you are a really big downloader than change to ihug. :D
dds (7234)
399222 2005-10-25 20:57:00 Just visited Ihug's website and their broadband seems to be impressive. I'm with xtra currently and looks like changing over to Ihug is a good choice.

Rang Ihug just now to enquire about this matter and was told that they will charge me $99.00 connection fee for changing over. This 'connection fee' deters me from joining them, though.
bk T (215)
399223 2005-10-25 21:11:00 Rang Ihug again to reconfirm the 'connection fee'. This time I was told that there is no connection fee and on top of that I'll get a free modem as well - because I'm a new Ihug customer!

What's this all about? Seems everyone is telling a different story.
bk T (215)
399224 2005-10-25 21:16:00 congratuations BK, you finally get your feet wet. :D :D dds (7234)
399225 2005-10-25 21:58:00 I doubt there's a lot of difference between the mainstream providers. But I reckon there's a difference depending what plan you're on.

For example, until recently I was on Orcon's Bitstream plan - unlimited bandwidth at 256k down, 128k up, and it was quite delightful, with just a very few temporary outtages.

Now I'm with Xtra on their 10gig plan, 2Mb down, 128k up, and although the download speed is impressively noticeable, about 1 in 10 web pages won't load at the first attempt, ie they time out. A simple re-click gets the page, but it's a weird problem I never experienced before.
Greg (193)
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