Christchurch Treehouse of Awesome-Where everyone knows your name

[Lias]

and also not be in a bandwidth pool with all the other scrub unlimited users :p)

I realise you work there and all, but don't drink the company koolaid too much :-)

Orcon have publicly stated they do not segregate, and Bigpipe is unlimited only (and I have a connection with them back in welly and have never seen any degraded performance, even during peak, it's mint as). Plus Snap have had some fairly well documented issues with staffing (or lack there of), IPV6/CDN issues, DDOS issues (I could go on) lately, leading to lots of negative press.

That being said I still find work's corporate snap connection and xsannz's snap connection pretty good most of the time.

[Growler]

I can honestly say my snap at home has been 100% awesome, never had an issue in like 278934 years since I got it.

Jonty will msg once I go live on fibre, is not till start of month.

[.osiRiS]

Give me Growlers bonuses in the mean time. He has agreed to this already.

[Codex]

Jonty da man

Xsannz still want the chromecast I brought back for you from the US? If not whoever calls first can buy it, unusued, sealed, $50

[Lias]

Just to be clear I wasn't having a go at Snap or Jonty, just pointing out that Snap is not necessarily gods gift to ISP's, and that unlimited of today is NOT the go large or bigtime of years gone past.

I don't think there is currently any ISP in the market that is "The best" currently.

Personally I think that depending on your needs one of these three is the ISP to goto:
Bigpipe (unlimited, cheap, limited support so need smarts, xDSL only)
Orcon (unlimited, not quite so cheap, "proper" support, offers xDSL and fibre)
Snap (capped, reasonable prices compare to other capped offerings, offers xDSL and fibre, has had some issues lately which have tarnished it's once shiny halo a fair bit)

Also FWIW, I don't care if they sponsor GetSome, Vodafone have destroyed pretty much everything that was good about TelstraClear, and putting the price of HFC Cable _UP_ on the new plans was an act so brazenly greedy I am unlikely to do business with them again for a long long time.

[Pyromanik]

Lies. Snap are the internet saviours of NZ.
Staffing issues are bullshit, they're all champions.
Talk to a personable human who isn't just reading from a fucking screen when you call.
Never had a break in service.

Snap >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> *

[Growler]

^ that.

Not Rajif from the smallest city in India reading from a card.

You know, you could take sound bites from Apu in the simpsons and entwine them together and be a better call centre than most of those places.

[Codex]

Lol called them yesterday and it was like "High call volumes blah blah, you are....1st.... in the queue"

Well okay

I'm okay with that

[Growler]

I emailed support as my new house aint in the databases yet as a new subdivision. We'll call you soon..... literally within a minute I had a call and it's all done and dusted!

[Growler]

That unlimited download 1-7am could be deadly.... I might just download for the sake of downloading one month to see how much I can get.

What's theoretical max speed on fibre downloads via NNTP? I always max connection on VDSL and ADSL.

[Pyromanik]

I emailed support as my new house aint in the databases yet as a new subdivision. We'll call you soon..... literally within a minute I had a call and it's all done and dusted!

Snap is the only company to EVER call me back after requesting a fix on my line to let me know it's done, and see if the problem was resolved  (I didn't even ask for such a service).

Not just leaving it to chorus to fuck up and then whatever.

[Xsannz]

Lol called them yesterday and it was like "High call volumes blah blah, you are....1st.... in the queue"

Well okay

I'm okay with that

so much better than ring telecom, no idea where in the que but your wait time is 41 to 75 min would you like a call back..

fuck me i'll have grey hair by the time they call back.. although i found if you go through to the overdue accounts people you get answered straight away and then ask to be transferred...

[Xsannz]

Jonty da man

Xsannz still want the chromecast I brought back for you from the US? If not whoever calls first can buy it, unusued, sealed, $50

yeah had forgotten about that, no monies for a few weeks, its insurance and rates time..  so if somebody offers money first...

otherwise still keen

[Codex]

Why would you not pay rates like each week or fortnight instead of waiting for a big bill lol.

[Xsannz]

Why would you not pay rates like each week or fortnight instead of waiting for a big bill lol.

i normally put it aside.. but had a few things to cover when i changed jobs which cleaned out a few things

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

I'm sure everyone has had good and bad experiences with every ISP out there.

[Growler]

No, I only had bad experiences with telecom..... but that was going back some time now so they may have cleaned their act up.

Are they still called telecom, didn't they change to 'unicorns fart rainbows' or soemthing?

[Growler]

New TV....

50inch or there about, 55 is getting too big and I'd like over 42". I am looking at the Samsung 50" 6700. Any other thoughts or suggestions/brands I should look at?

[Codex]

I'd get the Sammy personally. Wall mount yo

Need to steal crimping tools from someone to crimp an rj45 to an rj11 >__< and figure out what pair adsl uses here, think it's outer

[Growler]

What about the series 8 plasma..... 

won't be wall mounting, HATE wall mounts!

[Codex]

Personally prefer LED over Plasma, it's a personal preference thing though. Go look at both and see how you feel with either. Take in a flash drive with some test images or something if you want to see the difference


Also: Fucking lol at 1-day, those s5's they sold are all non LTE versions and they advertised 4g/lte, now everyone is pissed with them. Unsurprising

[Bounty Hunter]

What about the series 8 plasma..... 

won't be wall mounting, HATE wall mounts!

Someone asked about plasmas a few months ago.

Plasmas have to have a glass front, and for whatever reason it can't be matte. So it's shiny.

In anything but absolute darkness you will see a reflection of yourself, and you might say on here now "oh yeah but I'm going to point it away from the windows" or "it can't be that bad"

It is.

Don't buy a plasma.

[Retardobot]

Also: Fucking lol at 1-day, those s5's they sold are all non LTE versions and they advertised 4g/lte, now everyone is pissed with them. Unsurprising

Hahaha, fucking 1-day scumbags. They are constantly selling the S3 using photos of the S4 and when they sell refurbished S2 units they use S3 photos. All their hoodies are counterfeit fakes as well as their shirts.

In other news. I'm ramping up my move. CV will be finished tonight and jobs will be applied for. If there are any jobs I like the sound of in Chch I'll be applying for them because I've had it with this piss bucket town. Nothing but bad memories here for me. Anyone got a temp. Spare room in the shakey city if I was to be successful in gaining employment in Chch?

[Pyromanik]

LED, wallmount on a swingarm. So much betterer than normal FLAT AS FUCK BITCH WACHOO GON DO?

'coz despite what magazines would have us belive (if 'us' is women), everyone wants dem bitches with a more flexibility than 'flat'.

[Pyromanik]

Also: Fucking lol at 1-day, those s5's they sold are all non LTE versions and they advertised 4g/lte, now everyone is pissed with them. Unsurprising

Hahaha, fucking 1-day scumbags. They are constantly selling the S3 using photos of the S4 and when they sell refurbished S2 units they use S3 photos. All their hoodies are counterfeit fakes as well as their shirts.

In other news. I'm ramping up my move. CV will be finished tonight and jobs will be applied for. If there are any jobs I like the sound of in Chch I'll be applying for them because I've had it with this piss bucket town. Nothing but bad memories here for me. Anyone got a temp. Spare room in the shakey city if I was to be successful in gaining employment in Chch?

Plato Creative, tell them I sent you (use real name, duh). Just force your way in there with your oodles of awesome.
Team are all awesome balls, and I think you'd get on so well with Ryano.
Bossman hires on personality, not necessarilly skill (you've got oodles of the latter, so it's all the former tbh).

That means that everyone is cool, not a single bitch in the crowd.

But that of course means that this kind of work is what you're after. I know after I moved here the fucking very last thing I wanted to do was write another line of CSS.
Dunno why, I used to love the fuck out of it.

But I dunno much about design, no matter the dicipline it's all pretty pictures to me (unless it's product design or the like).

Oh well! xD

GL chap.

PS. dat rep.