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

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

Last year I had a cable modem with Saturn, and I had no complaints.

(I'm overseas now, so no current recommendation.)

Cheers,
Bret

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 22:53, 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
> 
> -- 
> Nigel Walters <lizh at ihug.co.nz>
> 
> 
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