[wellylug] dialup ISP suggestions?

[Phil O'Connell]

 I also use the paradise 250 hrs/month @ $20 and find it pretty good as Nick says. I've downloaded overnight from 11pm to 7am and not got kicked off sometimes. On a Telecom line (we have no other option here) with a fair bit of noise i get connections ranging from 49.3 to 52 kbps. I had an external KTX  and  Dynalink modems connecting consistently at 49.3 but the current Dick Smith internal hardware modem nearly always  connects at   52kbps and  49.3 or 40.2 on rare ocassions. As Nick says the only minor annoyance is the billing period which doesn't fit tidily into most of my payment cycles. i'd recommend the Paradise 250 hrs dialup plan based on my experience.

Phil

======= At 2004-08-20, 14:04:44 you wrote: =======

>I use the Paradise 200 hours for $20 a month (28 days) plan, it's pretty 
>good, I usually connect at 53.2kbps, and I often download all night without 
>getting booted. It's pretty good, but having a 28 day payment scheme is 
>really annoying - I never know what time of month my automatic payment comes 
>out.
>
>   Nick
>
>
>>From: Donald Gordon <don at dis.org.nz>
>>Reply-To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
>>To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
>>Subject: [wellylug] dialup ISP suggestions?
>>Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:57:36 +1200
>>
>>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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Phil O'Connell
phil.oconnell at paradise.net.nz
2004-08-20