ISP options for dummies

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

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

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.

Oh, and talking to Roman makes it really easy to sign up too

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Have used both but the hell website fails for us consistantly. Also prefer the pizza from a non chain store place down the road.

Yeah I'm with Orcon Maestro, very rare that I have any problems