OT- Wireless & internet access OS

Hi Duncan i just tried telstra for you and it say's they have a high level demand and have to wait a long time (what a suprise) i'd think you would have to go on roaming (cdma) and it would be at a much higher rate.....

But in the end you'd have to call unless you are already on roaming ?????

Will try again later or if someone knows for sure from this site !

Site Link

Try this link it tells you a bit about it.

Gooday,
Have just spent 5 weeks in NZ, can tell you for sure MiniMax will not work over there, don't know about the replacement which is on 3G.
Can tell you I took our laptop, and NZ Telecom & our Telstra do not like one another. They let us download 1 lot of E-mails & that was it they then lock you out.
After lots of frustrations & Dollars we found if we changed our settings to smpt.xtra.co.nz we could then access our incoming mail VIA the BIGPOND website, & could send outgoing E-mail via our normal outgoing settings. I found the Internet Kiosks in the Holiday/Caravan parks on a par with Zimbabwe, bloody costly bescause they were so slow or froze your screen evry 3 minutes. Even using their terminals was pathetic in mostplaces. Many of thenm are linked via a crowd called Hotspot & they have the speed choked to less than dial up. A couple oof places were on Global Gossip which is the one you get via Macdonalds.

The only success I sometimes had was going Internet Cafes, some were really good & inexpensive, but in the main the parks were $10-00 NZ per hour, Gold coin donation every 15 minutes.
Would sure think twice about taking our own Laptop again.
Even most of the Internet Cafes had people there who knew nothing about the workings. Two or 3 exceptions was DuBDubDub in Wanaka, & a bloke upstairs in downtown Dunedin, then a shop in Whangeri.

If I were to do it again I would only use the E-shops (cafe's ) in the towns , give most of the park terminals a wide bert.

Can give you the moves to change your settings if you are intent on taking your own laptop, comtact me on profile spacemail address.
Cheers, & may patience & good luck be with you.
Boroma604.
PS watch out for the Kiwi Drivers!!!!!!!!!!!. No Joke, in those 5 weeks, we were in a Motor Camper & passed on double lines there, more times than I have int the rest of me 51 years I have been driving, and they have perfected Tailgating to an absoloute art form, along with many other suicidal moves.

Does NZ have CDMA ???? if not forget it and throw the Mini Max in the bin as I did ,