[wellylug] Looking for an ISP recommendation

[Jamie Baddeley]

<rant>
FFS. good lord.

So you are talking about $20 a month.

Or about 2 Mince Pies a week.

So you are connecting to this amazing thing called The Internet, where
you can gain access to unlimited information, get in touch with friends,
and create your own homepage for the world. Hell, it even faciltated a
alternative computer operating system that they call Leenucks..

And the issue is about people who provide you something that you pay
about 2 Mince pies per week worth of dosh....

WTF do you expect for 2 mince pies? Red Carpet? Backrubs? The whole 9
yards?

Something makes me think that we seriously undervalue The Internet, and
it is that which will cause the death of it as we know it.

</rant>

Now I agree that 3 hours is unacceptable, but hey, sometimes I have to
wait a little while at the dairy too.

jamie

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 14:04 +1300, Nick Jensen wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:41:06 +1300, Jeremy Naylor
> <jeremy.naylor at r2.co.nz> wrote:
> > Anyway, have you tried Slingshot? A friend of mine used to use their
> > dialup service, and he told me is was pretty good.
> 
>  I just tried Slingshot dialup, and immediately left them. Their
> connections were OK, but their service was bad enough I decided I
> didn't want to deal with them any more and moved to Orcon. Over a
> period of a week (that's how long they give you as a trial, after
> which you can get your money back) I spent over 3 hours on hold with
> them trying to connect and then disconnect - and had 2 polite people
> and 3 rude ones at the other end.
>  Orcon has had me connected after a total of 20 minutes talking to
> them, and I didn't have to go to the post office to pay my bill - they
> just connected me and I'll pay by DD later on.
>  Unfortunately both have a 3-month pay-in-advance policy, but that's not so bad.
>  I moved from Paradise which has a 28 day payment cycle, which meant I
> never knew when my payment was going to come out of my account, as
> well as fitting an extra billing month into the year. They also only
> gave me 250 hours instead of a true flat rate - which I admittidly
> never reached but it was often on my mind.
> 
>  Anyway, all this is only dialup, so possibly doesn't help too much
> with regard to ADSL connections.
> 
>    Nick
> 

-- 
Jamie Baddeley <wellylug at vpc.co.nz>