bobbyftm

I'll certainly vouch for that bit Angela Have a great weekend

Cookster

Morning all,
really nice to meet Tracy and Andy last night in Hoolihans.
Wishing them all the best with the purchase of a car today !!!!!!

Angela

clothmama

Awwww sorry I didn't make it down, was after 8.30 before the kids were asleep and by then I was tooooo tired!

tasmas

It was a pleasure to meet you guys!!
Although we were a bit tired and probably talking gibberish half the time!

Next time Clothmama...

tasmas

Can anyone help me?
I'm going around in circles looking at broadband and home phone suppliers.
It looks either really expensive or they don't do the area i'm in (Urangan).

Any ideas anyone?

Tracy

clothmama

Hi Tracey, Mr CM spent hours working out the best / cheapest system for us, he develops websites and we run a few so it is pretty important to us! We are with Telstra for our normal phone, we have asked to be on the 'budget line rental' (which they won't tell you about but it is there if you ask) which is 19.95 a month. We then use Pennytel which requires you to plug a phone into the back of your modem for your outgoing calls. They are then 8 cents a call locally nationally AND to the UK. So we end up paying about $22 to Telstra (we still use that phone for 13000 numbers etc as it makes no difference). We have our broadband with a company called Exetel, they are quite good on how much bandwidth you get for your $'s and they also have one of the cheapest end contract early fees (which you pay if you move), I think we pay something like $50 a month for 40gB. So all up for all our international and local calls each month as well as enough bandwidth to run a very large website and numerous smaller ones and watch TV online (BBC of course!!)we would not pay more than $80! Just spoke to a friend who paid $300 for a months bill from Telstra so she was gobsmacked!

Safin

You need to find out if you can get ADSL though - we can't get it at all and apparently its quite common due to insuffcient/age wiring from house to road! We have to go wireless. Virgin is cheap but useless (tried it), vodaphone is one same network as virgin (both use optus). Due to the lousy virgin trial we ended up with telstra against our will. Got home phone with them in order to get 1/2 price for a year ($40 not $80 for 5gb) on a 3 year contract. Good thing is it is portable from place to place and get out fee is only $10 a month left on contract. We plan to buy out at end of first year and look/resign again as its cheaper than going on with exisiting contract!

Also have the budget line and use skype. Keep meaning to check if we can use pennytel too but haven't got round to checking its compatability with wireless & the bigpond modem!

isle

Oi what happend to spending less time on here, Mrs Moderator it's 5 to 8 I hope your littlens are ready. LOL

Enjoy your walk and if I don't see you before saturday have a nice time, look forward to hearing al about it, bet it will not be as good as our eventfull nights camping.

Mrs Isle

ray2gill

M&S Sale is on with free international delivery on all orders over £80 if anyone is interested.

Is anyone meeting up for coffee this week?

G.

Safin

10 am this morning at aquaview for anyone interested. So far just me and Cookster

ray2gill

Ok I'll see you there then. Hubby should be back from fishing by then and I will have a car.

Cookster

Beer and fud down pub tomorrow night chaps!!!!
Oh for hevens sake ....... a beer and a meal down Hoolihans tomorrows, what ho!!!

Angela

isle

Walking

Hi Guys

If anyone wants to go walking tomorrow, we meet at mine at 6, if you want to join us then be outside the Torquay Hotel (Pub) at 5 past 6.

Mrs Isle

lou-by

Hello I am new to this, we are considering moving to Hervey Bay, we have been a couple of times and love it, its just making that initial move we are all a bit scared, can anyone give us some advice, we have 2 young children and we think about moving every day, we just cannot stop thinking about it, we have relatives in Hervey Bay and just love the lifestyle.

val-phil

Hi Everyone

My first time here too. We're hoping to move up to Hervey Bay if we ever get our visas sorted out. You all seem like a nice friendly bunch so I thought I'd just gatecrash your party! Hope you don't mind. I look at Domain VERY often and there are just so many properties that I need to narrow down my search a bit. Any areas to avoid, please? Point Vernon looks a bit hilly (20+ a day have taken their toll on my lungs!!) but why is Eli Waters so cheap? Possible flood risks? I'm sure there'll be many more questions but that'll do for now and I'll look forward to hopefully meeting you all one day.

Val