On Tuesday 25 April 2006 09:52, Neil Stockbridge wrote: > the fastest DSL in NZ is 2Mbit down, 128kbit up. reliability is pretty > poor compared to the UK (i am with Zen and have had only one outage in > six years, which was BT's fault). i've had a few outages over the > course of six months with Xtra including one time when they bollocksed > the routing to the UK.
You can now get faster, I'm with iHug 3.5Mbit/512Kbit it is a bit expensive though. I don't really need the 3.5 down but it's the only way to get a decent upload rate on ADSL. As for reliability, mine has been reasonable. Malcolm: Hi, welcome. In New Zealand Telecom still has control over the local loop so there is a lack of competition here. We are basically at their mercy. If you are in Christchurch I would say that cable is the way to go. Better speeds and lower latency although unfortunately Telstra don't peer with local peering points so that may make the lower latency moot for local connections. ADSL is high latency here ~70ms to local servers which is annoying but again there isn't much you can do. IMHO it will take around 3-5 years after the local loop gets unbundled before we see decent competition in NZ. hads -- The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
