[wellylug] dialup ISP suggestions?

[Klenner, Colin]

I use (Telstra) Clear on the $24.95 flat rate - all the time you can use. I
have been dialled in for up to 24 hours at a time with no drop offs or any
interuptions to service.

The only issue I had was that the connection speed seemed to be slow.
However when I got a second line into the house Telecom had to relay copper
from the street and the quality of the new line was clearly and demonstrably
superior to the original, which was about 30 years old.

I have used internal and external modems, winmodems, on a variety of OS's
and can't recommend one over the other as I seem to have very good
connections and usually reasonable download speeds of what a 56k modem can
manage. I would like to learn how to manipulate the modem to try and achieve
better burst speeds on downloads, but it is not a high priority.

Colin

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From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Donald Gordon
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 12:58 PM
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: [wellylug] dialup ISP suggestions?


Hi

I'm going to be stuck on dialup for a month-and-a-half relatively soon, with
a telstraclear landline.  Not having heard anything about the relative
merits of dialup ISPs for some time, or having used any myself (apart from
Actrix, who don't appear to have a flat-rate plan any
more) does anyone have any suggestions?

I'm looking for something that's flat-rate (and doesn't start kicking you
off and not letting you on for fifteen minutes after you've reached some
arbitary usage limit, as some ISPs seem to do these days), doesn't produce
too many busy signals, isn't horrendously expensive, and
(ideally) is provided by an ISP which peers on the WIX.

donald


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