[wellylug] Please recommend a decent ISP. Not IHUG !

[Ilia Pavlenko]

Globe.net.nz is a good plain dialup ($25/unlimited).

No idiotic terms of use (like Xtra's intellectual property clauses),
no traffic or time limits.

No "mysterious" disconnections (like I had with Ihug exactly every hour at
night, and when I rang helldesk i've been told the problem on my end).

And you can even register with globe.net.nz online (with credit card).

And it's accessible from LANPLACE :))  (unlike IHUG's servers, which have
australian ip-address space).

Ilia.


On 22 Apr 2003, Nigel Walters wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need some recommendations for an isp.
>
> I have used ihug for 18 months. They provide a good connection. I have a
> 56K dialup. with 250hrs per month. Normally I use 150-200 hrs a month.
> Last month owing to the Iraq war my downloads really slowed down and I
> managed over 300hrs and was given an additional charge of $146. All fair
> and good to the original agreement I made EXCEPT
>
> 1) They provide no automated warning of going over ones limit.
>
> 2) Any new customer signing up today for ANY dialup account cannot pay
> more than a $30 surcharge. This means that loyal customers are screwed
> EVEN though the company obviously recognises the problem. Funnily
> eneough their mailing lists which I allow to advise me of changes to
> their policies either did not sell these changes to accounts do so or
> did so very quietly....they sell me lots of things I don't need !
>
> Anyway I can not allow people to profit when they do this sort of thing
> so I must change isp.
>
> Any opinions either pro or con welcome.
>
> Thanks
> Nigel
>
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> Nigel Walters <lizh at ihug.co.nz>
>
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