Ian Batterbee wrote:
> 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.
>
Yeah I either pay double to get the same plan, or change plans to get
less data and still pay more.

Shocking.

Steve

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