Comments on: The critical importance of home broadband http://unconditional.co.nz/blog/the-critical-importance-of-home-broadband/ What's really going on in realestate Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:58:07 +1300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alistair Helm http://unconditional.co.nz/blog/the-critical-importance-of-home-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-2085 Alistair Helm Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:09:44 +0000 http://www.unconditional.co.nz/blog/?p=4156#comment-2085 Ross The Go Large was $49.95 a month unpcapped and largely pt restricted, although the performance has been not as good as it used to be. The Telecom option of Big Time is $59.95 with no data cap but restricted speeds. The explorer is as you say $49.9 for 10GB, but here is the punch - go over that cap and wow - they will throttle you back to dial up speed!! Ross

The Go Large was $49.95 a month unpcapped and largely pt restricted, although the performance has been not as good as it used to be.

The Telecom option of Big Time is $59.95 with no data cap but restricted speeds.

The explorer is as you say $49.9 for 10GB, but here is the punch – go over that cap and wow – they will throttle you back to dial up speed!!

]]> By: david garratt http://unconditional.co.nz/blog/the-critical-importance-of-home-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-2084 david garratt Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:32:55 +0000 http://www.unconditional.co.nz/blog/?p=4156#comment-2084 It's telstra cable or nothing for me! Though a number of clients have recently had problems because telstra say they are no longer running overhead connections. Obviously the customer has to bear the brunt of getting the driveway dug up and new cable run from the nearest connection point. Am glad I got hooked up when they were running overhead wiring, I wouldn't go back to telecom and have even had myself physically disconnected from the telecom network. It’s telstra cable or nothing for me!
Though a number of clients have recently had problems because telstra say they are no longer running overhead connections. Obviously the customer has to bear the brunt of getting the driveway dug up and new cable run from the nearest connection point.
Am glad I got hooked up when they were running overhead wiring, I wouldn’t go back to telecom and have even had myself physically disconnected from the telecom network.

]]> By: Ross Brader AREINZ http://unconditional.co.nz/blog/the-critical-importance-of-home-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-2083 Ross Brader AREINZ Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:48:27 +0000 http://www.unconditional.co.nz/blog/?p=4156#comment-2083 Alistair - what did Go Large plan cost per month? We have Pro Plan at $79.95 at the office and that has a 40gB data cap and at home the Explorer Plan at $49.95 that has a 10gB data cap. Neither of these plans have capped download or upload speeds. Have no probem with either of the connections. www.telecom.co.nz/broadband/select/1,10627,205728-204466,00.html Alistair – what did Go Large plan cost per month?

We have Pro Plan at $79.95 at the office and that has a 40gB data cap and at home the Explorer Plan at $49.95 that has a 10gB data cap. Neither of these plans have capped download or upload speeds. Have no probem with either of the connections.

http://www.telecom.co.nz/broadband/select/1,10627,205728-204466,00.html

]]> By: Ross Brader AREINZ http://unconditional.co.nz/blog/the-critical-importance-of-home-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-2082 Ross Brader AREINZ Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:30:47 +0000 http://www.unconditional.co.nz/blog/?p=4156#comment-2082 Many house buyers want to know that they can get fast broadband in the suburbs they are considering and in Pt Chevalier we are lucky as we were the first area to get the fast cabinetised broadband. This afternoon at the office we are running at 15,280 megabits per second download speed. You can check your own speed at www.speedtest.net Would be interesting to see who has the best speed out there? Strummer - let us know what your Telstra connnection is running at. Many house buyers want to know that they can get fast broadband in the suburbs they are considering and in Pt Chevalier we are lucky as we were the first area to get the fast cabinetised broadband.

This afternoon at the office we are running at 15,280 megabits per second download speed. You can check your own speed at http://www.speedtest.net

Would be interesting to see who has the best speed out there? Strummer – let us know what your Telstra connnection is running at.

]]> By: Alistair Helm http://unconditional.co.nz/blog/the-critical-importance-of-home-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-2080 Alistair Helm Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:35:00 +0000 http://www.unconditional.co.nz/blog/?p=4156#comment-2080 Strummer, Thanks for those comments - were you can these competitive new entrants provide a demonstration of the type of broadband we would all like to see. We may rate well on internet access now at 88% of all NZ'ers but when it comes to broadband we lag behind and what we have is not world class by any stretch of the imagination! Strummer,

Thanks for those comments – were you can these competitive new entrants provide a demonstration of the type of broadband we would all like to see.

We may rate well on internet access now at 88% of all NZ’ers but when it comes to broadband we lag behind and what we have is not world class by any stretch of the imagination!

]]> By: Strummer http://unconditional.co.nz/blog/the-critical-importance-of-home-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-2081 Strummer Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:16:18 +0000 http://www.unconditional.co.nz/blog/?p=4156#comment-2081 This has always been the problem with these national monopolies like Telecon and British Telecon. They have invested in poor broadband technologies such as ADSL on which performance is very much based on contention ratios - the more connections they sell, the slower the bandwidth. I am lucky to live in an area served by TelstraClear and my cable broadband is very fast indeed and hasn't slowed at all over the past few years, despite the significant increase in usage. As more and more workers begin to telecommute, they will need access to high performance broadband for telephone and videoconferencing with their offices and Telecom just aren't delivering that. This has always been the problem with these national monopolies like Telecon and British Telecon. They have invested in poor broadband technologies such as ADSL on which performance is very much based on contention ratios – the more connections they sell, the slower the bandwidth.

I am lucky to live in an area served by TelstraClear and my cable broadband is very fast indeed and hasn’t slowed at all over the past few years, despite the significant increase in usage.

As more and more workers begin to telecommute, they will need access to high performance broadband for telephone and videoconferencing with their offices and Telecom just aren’t delivering that.

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