[wellylug] Recommend ISP?

[Mark Foster]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Donovan Jones wrote:

> On 4/23/07, Peter Jones <PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz> wrote:
>> 
>> Another vote for Telstra cable. I cannot think of a reason why one would
>> have cable available and still go with ADSL.
>> FWIW, you also get a static IP with cable. I suppose that would matter if
>> you were hosting a web site or something.
>
>
> Be aware with TC cable that they dont peer on the wix, if you access wix
> peered stuff in Wellington you will be going via Auckland. And for some
> select things on citylink you will be accessing them from the states (eg:
> ftp.nz.debian.org ).
>
> Also cable is not immune from outages, TC cable connections were
> inaccessible from the rest of NZ from 4am till 12pm just last monday (fault
> was in the core).
>
> There are some(?) smaller ISP's that do resell Telstra cable, one being
> http://www.acsonline.co.nz/

Vote for WorldxChange DSL services here.  They do peer at WIX ;-)

Yes, its still DSL, and still subject to their outages, but I've actually 
found mine quite reliable.

That, and their guys are quite clooful, and theres a referral credit if 
someone joins and identifies you as the referree :)