Satellite is the only option...
Lisa
Christchurch we are moving to doesn't have cable nor ADSL! Drat! So
we have to go with the iHug Ultra. Does anyone have any experience
with it? Is it okay? How's the latency for online gaming?
Thanks!
Lisa
Southern Kiwi
Downloads where ok, but overall I was disappointed as it was patchy at best
Cheers
Southern Kiwi
"Lisa" <loli...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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MarkH
news:54487fe4.03082...@posting.google.com:
Advantages:
Fast downloads and browsing
The only choice for faster speeds in some locations
Disadvantages:
Slow uploads (only standard modem speeds)
Loses connection in bad weather
Too expensive to download several GB per month
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See my pics at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~markh/
"There are 10 types of people, those that
understand binary and those that don't"
Wombus
I live in an established part of Hamilton, no ADSL and it is not on
Telecoms list to be done in the near future.... drat my wife wont let us
sell up and move.... and satelite not an option for online gaming.... my
advice to Lisa is find another Suburb if its not too late.
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RecylerMan
If you get a good view of the ground baced towers it is OK as the tower
baceded transmitters have much less lag to the point i dont realy care
NZ down loads are free I have done up to 6GB one month at arround 150KBs
the card is a fickle pile of the previbal runns better in linux box than
any thing elce kept dying in win2k box that used a 900MHz atahlon now it
sits in a cheep as p166 see http://cooze.co.nz cooling is the word with
theses cards.
I cant get adsl or anthing elce here for the price.
Mainlander
loli...@yahoo.com says...
Unless they have satellite upload now, upload is limited to 33.6 kpbs,
which may be too slow for some people.
Mainlander
Which suburb? Telstra told me a load of rubbish when I asked if they were
wired in my suburb (the contractors have put the cable junction box right
on the outside wall of my unit)
T.N.O
errr, I suggest trying yobbo.co.nz
go 802.11b, someone is likely to be providing it in CHCH
MarkH
Good one, a wireless community for file sharing and playing games, with no
access to the internet through it. Doesn’t seem like what Lisa is asking
about.
T.N.O
> Good one, a wireless community for file sharing and playing games, with no
> access to the internet through it. Doesn't seem like what Lisa is asking
> about.
fine then, they are not as advanced as in dunners :)
www.scarfies.net
or Auckland www.helix.net.nz
Peter White
I like in a rural area out side of Pukekohe in Auckland, I use ultra and it
might not be the best for gaming I have had little problems with the
service, allways good speed, and the one time I got my dish out of line, it
was fixed in a few days.
Pete
"Lisa" <loli...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Peter Huebner
It's more than ok, it's excellent for browsing and downloading up to
about 2 Gb - after that it gets expensive.
It's pretty useless for online gaming if you are playing realtime or
simultaneous turn games - you can get lags for up to 1 second on servers
based in the US ( I used to play Warlords online a lot) and that is
mostly lethal. It's fine for turnbased games.
As for weather, my lmv (lmb?) died recently - that is the receiver in the
dish. An installer (other than the original one) came out and put a new
one in, realigned my dish and actually fixed the fact that it had been
installed wrong in the first place. We had some extremely heavy weather
lately and I didn't lose the satellite at all. Was most impressed.
Unless you MUST play FPS games to stay alive I think it's a good service.
Oh, and make sure your system has a grunty powersupply. I used to have
untold problems until I got a good PSU.
-P.
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Uncle StoatWarbler
>
> errr, I suggest trying yobbo.co.nz
> go 802.11b, someone is likely to be providing it in CHCH
If they are, it's probably illegal.
Chch has the dubious distinction of being the only city in NZ which
requires licensing for all 2.45GHz linking, thanks to a bylaw which
overrides the 100mW EIRP limit _and_ requires planning permission for
_any_ external antennas.
Lisa
> wired in my suburb (the contractors have put the cable junction box right
> on the outside wall of my unit)
It's Avondale, or maybe Burwood, depending on who you ask. (right
across the road from the QEII Leisurepark). Telstra couldn't even
find the street... maybe I should call and ask more questions, eh?
Lisa
T.N.O.
> If they are, it's probably illegal.
WTF... this is just stupid.
tim
*cough* I shit more than that...
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T.N.O.
> 2gb?
> *cough* I shit more than that...
Dave looking at the message with a dazed and confused look... "Just how much
shit is 2gb?"
tim
redundancy, wrong/mislabeled, poor quality, unfinished downloads, etc etc u
get the point.
"T.N.O." <ne...@dave.net.nz> wrote in message
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T.N.O.
> not that much if your download movies..
Totally legal movies at that, aye Tim ;)
> redundancy, wrong/mislabeled, poor quality, unfinished downloads, etc etc
u
> get the point.
I get the point... pirate :)
tim
hey if i could pay for a reasonably priced (ok read... cheap) legitimate
service I probably would....
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T-Boy
I like Paradise Cable connection - but still find 256k very
slow compared to Ihug terrestial.
If you have line of site to Sugarloaf - you'll be able to get
the terrestial link for Ihug Ultra - and it's good, and very
very fast - my best rate when I was on this was 880k sustained.
I miss that speed, I really do. National traffic is free - but
yep, the international limits (before you start paying per meg)
are quite low. (A mate regularly downloads 80/85Gb per month -
well ok.. it's his son, but still - it's good, it's fast).
I would not recommend Ihug Ultra satellite at all - so do check
you have line of site to Sugarloaf, if yer gonna go Ultra, the
terrestial link is the only way to go, IMO.
--
Duncan
Mainlander
@digistar.com says...
Let me guess Neil Cherry or the greenies had something to do with it?
Mainlander
Look for the big black cables hanging on power poles, or the green box
things on the footpaths outside people's houses.
Of course if it is a new subdivision I guess it won't be wired.
Mainlander
ha...@work.ok says...
> In article <54487fe4.03082...@posting.google.com>,
> loli...@yahoo.com says...
> > Well, after all of our research, it turns out that the suburb of
> > Christchurch we are moving to doesn't have cable nor ADSL! Drat! So
> > we have to go with the iHug Ultra. Does anyone have any experience
> > with it? Is it okay? How's the latency for online gaming?
>
> I like Paradise Cable connection - but still find 256k very
> slow compared to Ihug terrestial.
>
> If you have line of site to Sugarloaf - you'll be able to get
> the terrestial link for Ihug Ultra - and it's good, and very
> very fast - my best rate when I was on this was 880k sustained.
By terrestrial do you mean two way at full speed i.e. not limited to
modem speed uploads?