Well I got an email from Orcon today laying out the new plans. It seems
that pretty much everyone who has received these emails is getting less
service for the same price they were paying before.

For example, a friend on their uncapped 256kbps plan has been moved to a
40GB capped 256kbps plan (they're living in a flat and normally transfer
more than 40GB per month)

For me, I was on the 2mbps autosense, so the frst 1GB for $39.95 then
$10 for every block of 10GB after that, and I normally do between
1GB-11GB, so normally pay $49.95 per month.

The new Orcon autosense plans charge $10 for 5GB of traffic (and somehow
that's an 'improvement' ?), but they've increased the 'free' portion a
little to compensate.
So my new plan is 2mbps autosense, first 4GB for $39.95, then $10 for
every 5GB.

In other words, If I download between 9 and 11GB in a month, I'll be
paying $10 more than I did previously.

Or.. I could change to Surfer Medium, which gives me 3.5mbps/128kbps,
but has 10GB included for $49.95, so 10GB of traffic on this plan is in
fact cheaper (and faster) than the same 10GB of traffic on the surfer
light plan above.

But at 3.5mbps, I expect the contention ratio will be so bad that
they'll perform no better than 2mbps plans.

What I'ld actually like would be 2mbps down, 512mbps up, so that my ssh
sessions to work aren't so damn jerky.

Thanks Telecom... you've certainly improved the state of broadband in NZ
by forcing ISPs to charge more for less.

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