They resolved that in a year or so but I went with Iconz for a while (still
use them for email) because they were so reliable, albiet at price premium.
The best deal around is probably Ihugs adsl (branded as bliink)
I'm on the 2Mb lite plan for NZ$60
2Mbit download 128Kbit upload (test suggest my actual is about 1 MBit)
10GB limit (but if you go over that they won't charge extra but will
throttle back speed)
There is virtually no limitless flatrate adsl in NZ.
sign up for 12 mths and they will throw in free ADSL modem or knock off a
$100 off an adsl router
re video card
I first bought my AIW ATI (original) from the USA Radeon 8500DV a couple of
years ago for something like NZ$450 landed of ebay. Sure the tuner was
American but I was using a video as a tuning and analog source anyway. Still
gave me multistd/system capture capabilities but I just could not use the
built in tuner, not that I wanted to because I figured it did not have NICAM
built into it. I could see the tuner device...just could not use it.
Upgraded the drivers & software...the tuner dissapeared. No worries, wasnt
using it anyway so I didnt care. At least I know have Divx capture on the
fly where I previously did not have.
I was building a PC for a friend and got a gecube AIW Radeon 9600XT sourced
locally from Ascent a reputable company. Installed all the drivers and
software. No tuner either. Strange I thought. The ATI CD that came with it
was just a one button install suite (not as if I had to do anything in
sequence).
Anyway he is also happy to use a spare VCR he has as a tuner, but it would
have been nice to fix this.
I have pretty much given up (I spent hours putting everything together)
Who knows, I might re-visit this later when I have a bit more spare time.
"Paul Murphy" <p_murphynothanks.DeleteThis@tospamhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Sounds like they've changed allot (as well as the increase in size) in the
5
> years or so since I left NZ
I very rarely had any problems getting a
> free dialup line when I was with them on flat rate dialup but now I don't
> need to worry about any of that. In the UK there's flat rate ADSL - that's
> what I use.
>
> How did you go with getting your ATI hardware working - I remember when I
> was still in NZ it was almost a case of "AT who" due to their
insignificant
> presence in the marketplace. Was all your ATI hardware bought there?
>
> Paul<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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