On Mon, August 27, 2007 9:12 am, John Carter wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > >> On Fri 24 Aug 2007 14:26:11 NZST +1200, John Carter wrote: > >> Help me understand a minor point here, please. You are no doubt >> intelligent. Exactly why are you with xtra? > > Paradise dial up was spotty a year or five ago, so I dumped them for > the (at the time) cheapest broad band. > > Thereafter I was lazy / hoped the regulator would clobber XTRA harder > / hoped the competition would try harder in offering real competition > instead of slightly reheated XTRA leavings. > > After this debacle I'm moving....xnet looks like the best, lets see if > they actually try... > > However... > > Sorry folks, NZ is _so_ screwed.... > > Even if everyone dumps xtra in the bin (where they belong), telecom > still controls the copper. > > I have now spent upwards of over an hour half listening to wall paper > music trying to get someone to fix the LINE. Moving to XNet isn't > going to solve that problem.
You may be better phoning them earlier in the day - like about 8.00 am. Have you considered woosh? Linux friendly, just make sure they give you the ethernet based "modem" and certainly not the pcmcia one. Dependent on coverage in your area of course. -- Nick Rout
