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@Snowy said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@nzzp said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
I don't get the hate on our broadband.
That's because you have a decent service. I don't even have a sealed road so decent internet seems some time away. Mobile could be a speed solution but expensive, data caps, etc.
Yes, my fault for living in the sticks but I pay the same as everyone else for the substandard service.
I think it's more that our rural broadband isn't as shit as most places. @No-Quarter said we had basically no criticism of the fact that those Internet speeds are a fucking embarrassment for a first world country. I guess my point is that we're doing ok - 27th internationally - and that even those with slower speed (max 90,000 households) are getting something done.
Appreciate you've got shite internet at the moment, and that sucks, but based on what's in this thread you're in a small minority. So it sucks, yep, but I don't think it's enough suckage to trump some people coming in and innovating in a market dominated by a sunset player.
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@Snowy said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@nzzp said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
I don't get the hate on our broadband.
That's because you have a decent service. I don't even have a sealed road so decent internet seems some time away. Mobile could be a speed solution but expensive, data caps, etc.
Yes, my fault for living in the sticks but I pay the same as everyone else for the substandard service.
No surprises you live in an isolated spot with no near witnesses....... I mean neighbours
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@nzzp said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
I think it's more that our rural broadband isn't as shit as most places.
Probably not, but compared to what places? Here?
@nzzp said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
I don't think it's enough suckage to trump some people coming in and innovating in a market dominated by a sunset player.
I would agree if they weren't taking exclusive content that is only available through them, and yet they can't provide a service that can cope with it. They are an internet provider after all and they are actually my ISP at the rural property. So they are completely to blame.
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@Snowy said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
@nzzp said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
I think it's more that our rural broadband isn't as shit as most places.
Probably not, but compared to what places? Here?
@nzzp said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
I don't think it's enough suckage to trump some people coming in and innovating in a market dominated by a sunset player.
I would agree if they weren't taking exclusive content that is only available through them, and yet they can't provide a service that can cope with it. They are an internet provider after all and they are actually my ISP at the rural property. So they are completely to blame.
have you looked at rural broadband via Vodafone? Not cheap, but more speed I expect.
depending on how rural, Skinny did mobile broadband for about $50 a month too; we had Spark for a while and got good speeds.
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@Snowy Again - me too. Spark/Telecom customer for 20 years - zero acknowledgement from them that they might have fucked the RWC for me. Let alone any discount for this fuckage - or on the price of the relatively substandard download speeds.
For all that they are trumpeting streaming as being the way of the future - they are taking me to the future via the 1970s when there were two and then three TV channels but only one was available to rural communities!
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@Snowy Apparently there are some parts of rural NZ that can't get Sky. At least with Spark you don't get rain fade.
I do get that it sucks for some people but you no - greater good and all that
Add me to the cold beer and listening to the cricket club but I will still get Spark because I still like to drop in on the live view evert few overs
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@dogmeat said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
At least with Spark you don't get rain fade.
I honestly haven't had that for years (at 2 different properties). Out of interest where do you have to live to not get Sky. In a hole? It's fricking satellites.
Whilst I see your point that you can't have everything everywhere it certainly isn't the greater good. Possibly the lesser of two evils.
And yes I will pay as well to get the cricket, even if it isn't as good as what I already had.
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@dogmeat said in And the winner of the RWC broadcasting rights is...:
I do get that it sucks for some people but you no - greater good and all that
I don't believe it is for the greater good if Spark has snatched the rights so that dipshit millennials can watch it on their phones!
What? "A small white dot moves in to bowl. Another white dot flickers and apparently that is a cover drive that has pierced two other white dots and gone for four. You'll have to take my word for that."
On the plus side, I'm not too far from entering the dementia market, so I'll only need to buy a couple of cricket DVDs and I'll have forgotten they're games I've watched by Sunday when I want to watch again!
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@Chris-B said in Spark Sport:
@dogmeat I have some fantastic viewing still stored on video tapes - and a player to play it on!
Deeply pissed that someone (probably me) taped over the famous Crusaders' drubbing of the Waratahs!
streaming fella, there ya go:
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