Best ISP for broadband?
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Topic: Best ISP for broadband?
Posted By: KH25
Subject: Best ISP for broadband?
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 12:28pm
I have finally convinced DH that we *need* broadband as I can't handle this slooooww dial up anymore  So which ISP do you guys recommend? We don't download music or anything so wouldn't need any super dooper 50GB plan or anything lol! ATM looking at Slingshots $29.95 plan (with tolls). Any comments?? ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 12:42pm
| I just have Xtra's $39.95 3GB plan - never use the whole 3GB, but use more than 200MB which is their next step down. Haven't had any problems with it since I got it. Mum and Dad have just signed up for the 200MB one and they're ADORING it. It's taken almost 10 years for me to persuade them to get broadband LOL and now they'll never go back to dialup. |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 12:50pm
| We use Inspire and won't go near slingshot because of friends receiving very poor service (up time) and extremely bad customer service. |
Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 2:05pm
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Slingshot !!!!!
Need I say more very, very, very bad service with them. We have used Ihug and they were good we only changed as DH downloads a lot and we needed a cheaper plan. We are now with Orcon and they have been fantastic. There customer service has been top notch and we have never had any "technical difficulties" with them like we did with Slingshot ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 2:11pm
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That's interesting what a couple of you say about Slingshot. We've been with them, with a number of different plans, for 4 years now and never had any issues... there's only been 2 major problems, both after shifting towns and both were actually Telecom's fault.
We have that plan you are looking at, Kelly. It suits us, and the couple of times we've gone over the limit (like this month, because DH has been watching the cricket online) we've just purchased an extra 3GB for $5. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 2:23pm
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We're with Xtra, I can't say they're the "best" but we haven't had any probs with them. I think I pay $49.95 for 5GB? I have no idea, I don't read the bills. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 2:40pm
Oh, I just remembered... if you have internet & tolls with Slingshot you get 200 free minutes to call other internet/tolls customers. My PIL have dial-up + tolls, and my BIL has broadband + tolls (both with Slingshot  ) and that means we only pay for tollcalls to my family or to my SIL overseas.------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: Henna79
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 2:45pm
| we went with Vodafone/Ihug for their free broadband deal and we love it!! They do phone as well and so all we pay for both is $60 a month which is awesome. |
Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 3:05pm
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Were with xtra and have the 6GB which is $49.95 a month we have had a couple of problems with them but they were really good about. We run out of a broadband the day before it changes over so it's just enough but still might have to go 10GB as Jesse is an online gamer and downloads hepas of stuff for his PS3. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 4:30pm
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I use telstraclear, only because its not broadband its cable, so wayyyy faster than broadband. No drops in speed, just a contunious 4mb speed.. which is fantastic. But its only available in christchurch and wellington. ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 5:20pm
| Snap Kandice! Telstra cable here too! So much better than Xtra etc, and DH did an online test against Xtra and its so much faster. Plus its only about $40 a month for 5G. |
Posted By: AliaDawn
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 5:26pm
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We're with orcon, and they've been absolutely horrible. They mis-judged their payments (was on direct debits) and slammed us with a huge bill, part of it we'd already paid... finally have that sorted, also our internet was cutting out sporadically (maybe 5 times a day it would cut out every 5 minutes, and only stay down for maybe a min and keep doing that for an hour) for about 5 months. Just ended a couple weeks ago, after many many tickets filed in complaint. And just recently have been having disgusting speeds, as in slower than dial-up.
If you can get telstra cable I totally recommend it. Was awesome when we had it, and I can't wait till we can get back to an area where we can change back to it. -------------  
 
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 10:48pm
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i'm so annoyed with telstra....we used them with our old house for about 3yrs, so rang them up to re-connect since we shifted.......our street is a l-shape and we are right on the corner...they only do the 'other side of the street' not ours as we are right on the bend urgh!!!! ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 10:55pm
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That is what I have and love it!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
KylahsMum wrote:Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 10:56pm
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Alia you are in a telstar clear area. Petone was one of the first areas in NZ to get the telstar clear cables or saturn cables as they were called at the start. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 10:57pm
We want to have Telstra too but apparently their not going to put cable in our suburb even there's sign saying they are in the bus stops. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 11:01pm
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I'm with xtra and haven't had any problems with them. I've got the 3kb plan and love it as I do download a bit of music. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 29 February 2008 at 11:02pm
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Awww sad. I have beenwith them since Lesieli was a few months old. I have always had great service...what a pity there arent in your street Danni ------------- http://lilypie.com">
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 01 March 2008 at 12:23am
God NZ is so overpriced its ridiculous! We pay £29 p/m ( I know that thats $90 but when your earning pounds its pretty much pound for dollar) and get unlimited broadband, unlimited national AND international calling. It is cheaper for us to call my Mum from here than it was for me to call when we lived in Wellington and she was in Paraparaumu!  ------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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Posted By: tishy
Date Posted: 01 March 2008 at 3:59am
LOL Jennz! For us it's cheaper for us to ring our parents in Ireland than it is for them to make a national call 
For value for money Slingshot is heaps better than Xtra. And for that we put up with the few times that we've had to contact customer support. |
Posted By: AliaDawn
Date Posted: 01 March 2008 at 6:17am
HNZ street  Yup - Cable is at the end of the street  -------------
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 01 March 2008 at 8:25am
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My mum is in a HNZ street lol ------------- http://lilypie.com">
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: Bel
Date Posted: 01 March 2008 at 8:41am
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I have slingshot as well - I changed from xtra and so far love slingshot. I have heard a few complaints from them, but none from me so far. So much cheaper that Telecom/xtra that it is worth it... I have their tools plan as well. ------------- Mum to two beautiful kids
Luke (09.11.2007) Amy (01.04.2009) |
Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 01 March 2008 at 9:30am
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Whats HNZ street?
I think telstraclear is cheaper than telecom for phone too and you can have telecom phone numbers. Any places that dont have cable, wont be getting it in the future as its too expensive to do it. The places in Chritchurch that dont have cable like rich/posh areas, didnt want the road works in their area, so it never went in there. ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: AliaDawn
Date Posted: 01 March 2008 at 9:45am
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HNZ = Housing New Zealand -------------
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Posted By: Skyflame
Date Posted: 01 March 2008 at 9:28pm
I feel  we have a 40 GB limit and manage to use it all practically every month. But it is used for DH to work from home as well.
We use Inspire and have for about 6 years and have found them great. |
Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 01 March 2008 at 9:30pm
We used to be on Telecom and hated it- we switched to WorldxChange and it rocks  - heaps better and we pay the same------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: TysMummy
Date Posted: 02 March 2008 at 8:34am
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i have been with every single interent provider and i have chosen slingshot as the best...........i have read some peoples comments about it and , guys it does depend where you are in the country as to how the speed etc go.........please keep that in mind..........now i chose them cause of the price...cheeper then the rest for what i want........we had excellent customer service unlike telecom which i will now not go near even with my phone but that is personal preference and i have got my tolls with them which brings my interent down even more.......and i get 200 free minuts (phone) with nominate people which rocks cause all my family live in different parts.........however my bro is keen on ihug although he said that if he didnt know anything about computers/interent then he wouldnt go with them as he didnt find them helpful. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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