New Zealand ADSL Mailing List


Re: 128Kb/s Upstream Throttles 2Mb/s downstream

From: Geoff <geoff_at_gummer.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:30:39 +1300
Message-ID: <000f01c5d6c1$5b48ff70$c800a8c0@froggle>

> Also ORCON have been switching off Jetstream partnering program
> connections purposely for the last 4 months to force the customers to
> ring and to change to UBS. This is NOT good practice, I have also had
> this confirmed with reps at Orcon in the last week. As some Muppet did
> it to my Connection after I rang about a seperate issue the night
> before. I was without internet for half a day and had to wait for the
> orcon helpdesk to come in in the morning. I spent 12-2am on the phone
> with jetstream trying to establish with the nightshift if it was their
> issue or not... eventually we gave up thinking it was a router dieing...
> But it ending up being my first assumption that ORCON had turned the
> account off....

That would be because Telecom are forcing the ISPs to do it.

There will be no JPP anymore. ALL ADSL users h ave to be either Xtra (non
UBS) or UBS.

Geoff.

-- 
This message is part of the NZ ADSL mailing list. 
see http://unixathome.org/adsl/ for archives, FAQ, 
and various documents. 
To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@lists.unixathome.org 
with "unsubscribe adsl" in the body of the message 
 
Received on Sat Oct 22 17:28:27 2005

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Thu Nov 30 11:48:34 2006 EST