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-This page is for flaming your current [ISP], explaining how much they suck and why you should change. Alternatively, if you've found an [ISP] that DoesntSuck
, then be sure to let us all know. To any [ISP] owners around, please don't take anything on this page as offense, just venting :)
+This page is for flaming your current [ISP], explaining how much they suck and why you should change. Alternatively, if you've found an [ISP] that doesn't suck
, then be sure to let us all know. To any [ISP] owners around, please don't take anything on this page as offense, just venting.
:)
+Discuss your [ISP] here, and ''please sign your messages''!
-;[WorldNet]: Good [ISP], a bit of packet loss internationally, no helpdesk, but if your accounts going fine you should never have to talk to them. Havent had any issues. 10 gig international cap.. speed average.. 13 k /sec normally.. but at times slower. have a habit of mentioning every scheduled telecom outage on their webpage, but hard to find out till you read them all where they are. similar to orcon. but peer to peer seems to work ok i guess (as good as peer to peer works). however all adsl has dropped in performance, never get the 16k/sec constant like you used to.
-;[Orcon]
: Great li'l
[ISP], unfortunately they resisted having
a cap on the amount
of bandwidth
you could use on JetStart each month
. Of course this means that every man and his dog and probably his neighbours household too signed up for Orcon so they could
[Leech
], thus leaving Orcon's poor
international link saturated
. Great if
you want local traffic
, not so hot for remote
.
+WorldNet
:
+ Good
[ISP], a bit
of packet loss internationally, no helpdesk, but if your accounts going fine
you should never have to talk to them
. Havent had any issues. 10
[GB
] international cap
.. speed average.. 13k/sec normally.. but at times slower. have a habit of mentioning every scheduled telecom outage on their webpage, but hard to find out till
you read them all where they are. similar to orcon. but peer to peer seems to work ok i guess (as good as peer to peer works). However all [ADSL] has dropped in performance
, you never get the 16k/sec constant like you used to
.
-It's is capped at 5g and 15g now. - ReneBartosh
-;Maxnet
: Have avoided capping Jetstart till recently
. Currently follow a similar model
to other ISPs - 12 GB International traffic (calculated off both upload and download) and unlimited national traffic. Their PointOfDifference
is "internet filtering". BoughtOut Web Internet (who rocked
[IMHO
]),
and therefore all their hapless users without so much as a by-your-leave
.
+[Orcon]
:
+ Great li'l [ISP]
. Traffic used
to be uncapped, which meant their int'l bandwidth was permanently saturated, but it's
is capped at 5
[GB
] and 15[GB] now
.
-;Net4U
: Actually, I quite like these guys. ;
-)
-Bah
.. I've had days when I can't stay connected for more than two minutes at a time, times when I'm still connected but can't even ping the ppp peer, news-server weirdness
(a bunch of the binaries newsgroups have suddenly gone from 800 msgs a day to 150
, and 2/3 of those are missing messages! Argh!)
-otoh they're cheap
. I guess I can live with it :)
+__Maxnet__
:
+ Currently follow a similar model to other [ISP]s -
- 12[GB] int'l traffic (calculated off both upload and download
) and unlimited national traffic
. They offer "internet filtering"
. Bought out Web Internet
(who rocked [IMHO])
, and therefore all their hapless users without so much as a by-your-leave
.
-Hey Sahil; why has news.net4u.co.nz been refusing connections for the past week? any plans to get that fixed? - zcat(1)
-;[Xtra]
: [DNS](?) or proxy(?) stops responding sometimes
.%%%Carrier dropped randomly (usually sooner rather than later and only on first connect attempt
- weird
).%%%
+__Net4U__
:
+ Actually, I quite like these guys
. ;
-)
-;:[Xtra] were -shockingly bad- considering how expensive they are;
I had frequent problems with their opaque-proxying, sites
I could resolve and ping, but couldn
't get to on port 80 because xtra
's proxy couldn
't resolve them. Also they told me on
the phone no signup fee
and I had to argue to get it refunded.%%%
+ Bah..
I've
had days when
I can
't stay connected for more than two minutes at a time, times when I
'm still connected but can
't even ping
the [PPP] peer, news-server weirdness (a bunch of the binaries newsgroups have suddenly gone from 800 msgs a day to 150,
and 2/3 of those are missing messages! Argh!)
-;
:Xtra disconnects you __very__ frequently (every few minutes
) when using Gnutella.
+ [OTOH] they're cheap. I guess I can live with it
:)
-;Paradise: Not bad at all
. Usually pretty fast, and $20
for 250 hours isn't such a bad deal. For JetStart, they offer a 10gb cap but their PointOfDifference is
that they charge a national meg at 100k; ie you could do 50 gig of national traffic and 5 gig of international traffic on your 10gb cap.
(I'd be impressed if you did 55gb on JetStart in a month!
)
+ Hey Sahil
; why has news
.net4u.co.nz been refusing connections
for the past week? any plans to get
that fixed? -- zcat
(1
)
-;ihug: I liked them on dialup - very stable, and while not as cheap as paradise ($24.95/month for 250 hours, or $29.95/month for unlimited, including $5 of ihug phone calls), have always found them good. On JetStart I find them even better. 10gb international/month, national is not charged. At all. Makes downloading Linux dists that much more fun.
-Discuss your
[ISP
] here!
+[Xtra
]:
+ [DNS](?) or [Proxy](?) stops responding sometimes.
-Actually, I have found an [ISP] I like: [TelstraClear]'s [Tempest], pity that they are only interested in Business Customers, and even if you are a Business, then you need to be smack bang right in the middle of the [CBD] for them to even consider you :
( On the other hand
on their cheap deal you *do* get 32kBps almost constantly :
)
+ Carrier dropped randomly
(usually sooner rather than later and only
on first connect attempt -- weird
).
-ClearNet Tempest 2mb (wireless) is not as good as the DSL service
, as we seem to have a constant
ping of between 149 to 400ms
, never lower =( On our DSL Tempest256 with a Alcatel router we
get pings of 12-14ms
to the same host
.
+ [Xtra] were ''shockingly bad'' considering how expensive they are; I had frequent problems with their opaque-proxying
, sites I could resolve and
ping, but couldn't
get to on port 80 because [Xtra]'s [Proxy] couldn't resolve them. Also they told me on
the phone no signup fee and I had to argue to get it refunded
.
-Ahh, never get wireless internet connections :
)
+ [Xtra] disconnects you ''very'' frequently (every few minutes
) when using Gnutella.
-It would be such a good business direction for TelstraClear to offer [Tempest] to residential customers, they would make alot of money from it and we'd be happier too!
-The problem is that they
'd have to spend
a lot
of money ripping up roads to lay cables out there :(
+__Paradise__:
+ Not bad at all. Usually pretty fast, and $20 for 250 hours isn
't such
a bad deal. For JetStart, they offer a 10[GB] cap but they charge a national meg at 100k; ie you could do 50[GB]
of national traffic and 5[GB] of international traffic on your 10[GB] cap.
-Cable would
be nice here
in Hammy, but it's not happening any time soon.
+ (I'd
be impressed if you did 55[GB] on JetStart
in a month!)
-;satlan
: We
're
with Hamilton crowd Satlan at
the mo
[http://www.satlan.com], pretty
good. 128K connection, static IP, cheap price. Usually low ping (50-150ms to NZ servers). I've actually found that wireless is usually <10ms ping, it's the routers at the other end which soak up the time...
+
+__ihug__
:
+ I liked them on dialup -- very stable, and while not as cheap as paradise ($24.95/month for 250 hours, or $29.95/month for unlimited, including $5 of ihug phone calls), have always found them good. On JetStart I find them even better. 10[GB] international/month, national is not charged. At all. Makes downloading LinuxDistribution~s that much more fun.
+
+
+TelstraClear
's [Tempest]:
+ Pity that they are only interested in Business Customers, and even if you are a Business, then you need to be smack bang right in the middle of the [CBD] for them to even consider you. :(
+
+ On the other hand on their cheap deal you *do* get 32kBps almost constantly :)
+
+ It would be such a good business direction for TelstraClear to offer [Tempest] to residential customers, they would make alot of money from it and we'd be happier too!
+
+ The problem is that they'd have to spend a lot of money ripping up roads to lay cables out there :(
+
+ Cable would be nice here in Hammy, but it's not happening any time soon.
+
+
+__ClearNet Tempest 2MB__ (wireless):
+ Not as good as the DSL service, as we seem to have a constant ping of between 149 to 400ms, never lower. =(
+
+ On our [DSL] Tempest256
with a Alcatel router we get pings of 12-14ms to
the same host.
+
+ Ahh, never get wireless internet connections :)
+
+
+
[Satlan |
http://www.satlan.com]:
+ Pretty
good. 128K connection, static IP, cheap price. Usually low ping (50-150ms to NZ servers). I've actually found that wireless is usually <10ms ping, it's the routers at the other end which soak up the time...
