[wellylug] International charges for national traffic connections

[Steven Mulvay]

Hi all,
I'm a little confused, does this problem only effect broad band customers and leave dialup customers with the status quo? The reason I ask is that I'm a Paradise dialup customer and I haven't had any trouble accessing any website. Nor have I noticed any increase in my Paradise bill. Someone on this list (I can't recall who) said that the Kiwibank and the NZPost websites weren't working. I tested them both last night, they worked fine for me. Perhaps the reason I'm unaffected by the depeering is because despite being a Paradise customer, my line is with Telecom, is that it?

Cheers,
Steve 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:56:02 +1300, wellylug-request at lists.wellylug.org.nz wrote:
> Dear Mr Jackson,
> 
> It has been brought to my attention that at 11am on the 24th of February 
> 2005 TelstraClear removed its routing to the Wellington Internet Exchange 
> (WIX). As you may know, several popular services are accessible through 
> hosts based on the WIX, such as CityLink's ftp mirrors of open source 
> software, the New Zealand mirror of the popular Debian linux distribution, 
> and TV, radio and video streams. Since the change I can no longer access 
> some of these services, and others have dropped from being fast and 
> responsive to being very slow.
> 
> As I decided on using Paradise Net's internet service as a direct result of 
> being able to access the aforementioned services, the fact that they are no 
> longer available, and that I was in no way notified of the impending 
> change, has a direct impact on my opinion of the internet service provided 
> to me by TelstraClear.
> 
> I understand that in the Terms of Service no particular service level was 
> guaranteed, but due to these changes I am seriously reconsidering my choice 
> of ISP. The fast access to the services is important to me, and as 
> TelstraClear has demonstrated that it is willing to change its service at 
> any time with no notice to customers I am seriously reconsidering my choice 
> of ISP.