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Just about to get hooked up in my new place and Id rather avoid WOOSH if I can as I suspect it wont go as well as it did in my last place where I could point the modem out onto the north western

Just spoke to Telecom but they tell me I must have a landline as well. Dont want/need one of those. Just checked ORCON's rates and they seem pretty steep at $80 a month when Woosh was 40 . What other options are out there these days? I dont massive amounts of data I dont.. or rarely ..... DL pron or torrent TV shows or whatever.

But my connection MUST be reliable! Losing connection when Im online for any period of time can be a fkn disaster

Is there a good ISP consumer review type site I can check out?


cheers
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Everyone will put their personal 2c in so I will too Razz

I'm with worldxchange - $69.95/mo base and $1.54/GB on peak (off peak unlimited) and I've been paying about $73-74/mo total. That includes the line & the internet.

I've been very happy with the connection overall. I don't get ADSL2, but that's exchange-dependent I think and probably not a concern for you.

It also can get a little slow for downloads about 3.30pm when everyone gets home from school/from picking the kids up from school but I don't see that as an issue.
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Oh, and talking to Roman makes it really easy to sign up too Santa
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We're with Orcon and have homeline included in our bill. Pretty happy with them because we get a good speed connection with a great ping.

We used to have just orcon and the phone line with telecom, however this works out cheaper.

While you might have to have a phoneline you don't have to have a telecom one. If it wasn't clear those Orcon packages mean you don't pay anything to telecom.

We only use our phone to order pizza occasionally.
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Yeah Telecom don't do Naked DSL - this table lays out a few of those that do and the cost:
http://www.nzconnection.net/index.php?title=Internet_Plan_and_Pricing_Comparisons:_Naked_DSL_plans

Frankly it's a bit of a ripoff really - not THAT much cheaper than having phone bundled in.
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PhunkyDave said:
We only use our phone to order pizza occasionally.


Hell have a really good website for ordering pizza online and Pizza Hutt give you a free garlic bread for using their website, not sure about any others though. But you should give it a try Smile

I use worldxchange (xnet) at home with their fusion plan.. not the torrent version which PFunk uses, so I get a lower per/MB rate but no free off peak. I would pay anywhere from $75-95 per month but download a few tv shows, movies, software etc..

AAAAAAA+++++ would trade again.
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Poker is one of your livelihoods and you're not prepared to pay $80/mo for a quick connection?

I'd go Telecom or Orcon.

Telecom has sorted a lot of their shit out and international bandwidth right now is insane so your online poker play will be awesome.

Orcon is my choice and i'm very happy with them.
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ur right of course, reliability is v important and cost not so much. I was just making sure I wasnt getting ripped

Overly helpful young chap from ORCON spat out $40 off my 2nd bill for no particular reason ....I was already sold, Im going with ORCON
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kroniq said:
PhunkyDave said:
We only use our phone to order pizza occasionally.


Hell have a really good website for ordering pizza online and Pizza Hutt give you a free garlic bread for using their website, not sure about any others though. But you should give it a try Smile


Have used both but the hell website fails for us consistantly. Also prefer the pizza from a non chain store place down the road.
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Yeah I'm with Orcon Maestro, very rare that I have any problems Smile