Help!!-advice on Broadband needed

[mart]

I've gone onto the only broadband available to me here in NZ. ADSL via Telecom (I don't have the cable option where I'm currently living).
I can either have the slower version (128kb/s) or the much faster (can be in excess of 2Mb).
But the faster one has a cap of 500Mb traffic/month, unless you want to pay significantly higher monthly rates and/or overusage rates.
The slower service has a cap set by the individual ISPs and a lot start at 5Gb.
Thank God I got put (in error) on the slower service and even so have used up 80% of my monthly allowance (5000Mb). This is a particularly low limit, maybe because its Telecoms own ISP Xtra. I certainly intend to change ISPs, but should I stay with the lower speed connection?
The big problem is that the cap on the faster connection is set by Telecom and not by the ISPs.

Mart

[jj]

You're screwed, then, old chap- the telecom cap is the limiting factor: Buttsie has already moaned about OzTelecom's shite service- looks like the whole Antipodes has yet to get with the times.
You'd have thought the business community would have kicked telecom's arses by now.

[Deuce Bigolo]

Sounds to me like your the only one who can answer your question

How much are you prepared to pay per month?

Whats more important Speed/Time vs Money?

Read a few articles saying that there is meant to be more competition in NZs broadband market over the next 12 months but as those ISPs will be using telecoms lines the prices aren't likely to fall significantly

Its taken our ISPs abou 3 years to start a serious bidding war for the customer base.They were waiting on Telstra/Telecom to put the infrastructure in place NZ will probably be the same

cheers
B....OZ

[crofter]

yes it will be nice when more areas of Scotland get broadbrand as well, what with the lack of cable in scotland you would have thought they might have been in more of a hurry to get their arses into gear, mind you we did get to try out the Poll Tax first before the rest of the country so make up your own minds.