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Thanks for commenting. It's good people like you are trying in NZ. I have mentioned to various ISPs in NZ that if they can provide a connection of any speed that is reasonable, I'll pay lots for it. Even 10Mb would have me pay probably 3x what we pay now. No ISP that I have found will provide a connection north of about 3-5Mb. 4 different properties all in Auckland. The business centre of the country has things this bad and I can help improve it as far as I can tell.

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NZ internet isn't quite google fiber, but it's gotten a lot better recently with VDSL2 and residential UFB. Are you looking for a business line with dedicated / 99th percentile bandwidth, or a residential connection?

At least Snap and Telecom offer VDSL2 (and surely everyone else must be about to start), I get a constant 40/10 with a good-sized cap for a reasonable price in my small Christchurch suburb.

Slingshot offer a passable unmetered ADSL2+ pretty cheaply if that's your poison. Telstra's 100mbit cable service is also reasonably cheap and worth considering if you're in a supported area.

Residential. I'd take a tenth that speed in a heartbeat. No provider can provide anything better than crap anywhere I have ever lived. The lines on the street have always been too rubbish to support anything good. I know people who get about 10Mb but have never knowingly met an Aucklander who gets more than that currently I max out at about 3. It's so very bad.

I'm in Auckland and consistently get upwards of the speeds you mention (15-20 Mbps Telecom).

I get 10-12mbit pretty consistently on unmetered ADSL2, and did at the last two places I lived as well. The couple of people I know with VDSL get 30-40mbit. A couple of others with UFB get the full 100mbit. Perhaps you're just really unlucky. This is all across auckland with telecom, vodafone, slingslot, orcon.

This might be a good time to ask. I'm currently with a Vodafone fixed line. 1Mb would be the best I get on a good day and those are hard to come by. We're a small little business so we can't afford anything too exorbitant. Auckland based. I have a residential line with Slingshot and not a fan. How's your interactions with Snap and Telecom support?

I'm just a consumer, i can't answer the question definitively. My VDSL's with Snap, haven't needed to call them at all except when i was setting the router up for the first time. They have a couple APIs and respected my right to disable the "support account" (backdoor) in the supplied AVM router, which was cool.

The internet at 'the office is a zero-rated relationship with a datacenter my parent company partners with, so i can't comment on that.

I don't know if this is the place for specific recommendations, you might find more opinions on say geekzone.co.nz.

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