leety <leety@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

>This was discussed before. Remember that the reason for the
>churn fee is to discourage churn, therefore it doesn't have
>to make sense. The suggestion at the time was that in the
>future Telecom plans would be Xtra plans i.e. you would have
>to pay churn to move between them and a UBS plan.

...therefore it doesn't have to make sense... I like that

>> Being a woosh user, 10 times the speed and 4 or 5 times
>> less latency for a little more than twice the price seems
>> quite tempting (I have no phone line so I'd have to factor
>> that in to the cost).

>Er? Woosh isn't 10 times the speed, their best home user
>plan they have is 250k and the best business plan 500k. From
>all I've heard, they do not have less latency then Telecom's
>JS, in fact, it's often worse and it's very spiky which is a
>killer for any latency sensitive app.

Sorry, you've got the wrong end of the stick, I'm on 256k Woosh, which is
almost 10 times slower, and around 4 or 5 times more latency than the 2Mbit
adsl being discussed. If I had a phoneline there would be no contest, I would
have adsl installed tomorrow. But since I don't have a phone line, and don't
feel a huge need for one, I can't justify $100 or so for ADSL+phoneline.

>Wired Country does have better latency then JS, and it might

>TC cable (Paradise) you can get 10mbit (which is only 5x)

These two aren't currently options for me due to geography.

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