Ty wrote:
Thanks to New Zealand's stone-age and monopolistic telecommunications, I can get pings of over 1000 on New Zealand ad Australian servers sometimes for no reason. Often it averages at around 400-500 and when it's working I get pings of around 90-100 on local, (Aus and NZ,) servers.
I will hear NO-ONE complaining of 150 pings! 150 pings are awesome!
Death to Telecom!
I fucking hate Telecom!
I agree telecome are teh sux0r. Espicially Go Large Plan which is what I used to be on. I got pings of 60-80 which sounds fine but I was always getting laggy delays and spikes FFS.
What I would recommend to anyone in New Zealand is to switch to Orcon ASAP. They have a deal atm with 2 months free broadband if you are coming from another ISP.
I am on a MAX/MAX plan with 15gig CAP for $60 NZD per month. Make sure to specify to have them turn off interleaving. I now get 7-11 ping on ICONZ and Xtra. On Australia Gamearena and Internode I get around 50. Off peak times the fastest I have downloaded large files at 790 KBPS +. Usually my torrents sit around 350-500kbps. 1 thing that sux about fast internet is its so easy to go over your cap ;(. Think I might have to switch to 30gig. I downloaded 15gb in 10 days.
Last edited by aLi3nZ (2007-01-14 18:44:18)