fraser

Did you see the link for the right site?

Linda Lushardi

Yes, looking now. But i'll need to get Mr Lush to wade through it.
Thanks

fraser

You're welcome

Siren & Brian

This is why I said no to Telstra. Sorry you couldnt read it before you signed up.

ABCDiamond

Check out:
Internode HOME-Extreme-Value
$59.95 per month
Speed: 24,576k/1,024k (if your exchange is ADSL2 compatible) or 1500/256 if not.
15 GB Included
http://www.internode.on.net/adsl/pricing/home.htm

pompeywill

I now have aanet 1.5mb package.
$69.99 per month for 18 gig.

Its very fast I can download at 156 kbs (faster than in the UK)

Do not use Curl, they are crap, I could never d/l at more than 5 kbs (slower in fact than dial-up) Aviod anything to do with Veritas.

ABCDiamond

I am also on the aanet 1,500k (1.5mb) plan but with only 8gb, for $48pm. 8gb is plenty for me though.

brisnick

your one bad experience shouldn't mean telling everyone to avoid them

i had no problems with curl, and i'm still with veridas, and yes, i still get 56KB/s P2P downloads (which is about the theoretical maximum for a 512kbps connection - 64KB/s, is the max, but there are also packet overheads).

and i have no contract so can leave when i like. i get 10GB for $34/month.

Linda Lushardi

Mr Lush is looking at that AND all the others on Frasers link.
Oh well, thats my Saturday over with. He'll be on my laptop ALL day and night comparing them.
I'm going swimming.

Ialibu

Read the fine print, you will also find that Bigpond counts uploads as part of their quota. And your computer does talk a lot to whomever is talking to it. Are far as I know all other ISPs only count the downloads as quota.

As someone said look up Whirlpool. On their home page in the top right hand corner is where you type on your telephone number and hit ok it will tell you which telephone exchange you are hooked up to and offers you the choice of what is available and seeing who has what. It is all very "blonde friendly".

gsb

Hi Iain

Beware.....Unlmited does not "as far as I am aware" truly mean Unlimited. My understanding is that you get so many Gb per month and once you have exceeded that then your speed drops from say 512 to 56k....gulp.....

Best check it out.

Cheers, G

worzel

I am not too bothered about the 10Gb limit, I don't download music, film or tv etc but I didn't realise an average web page was 50kb so some average surfing uses up a lot of the limit. Even with hammering it at the moment I am using about 50Meg a day (c1.5Gig pcm) so have plenty spare.

I am happy enough with the 512 speed. This new PC is 8 times faster than the old one which makes the increase more noticeable.

My beef is that having realised my mistake I am stuffed this month. I will have to go in to the shop on Monday and see if I can change plans retrospectively. Even then $69 per month isn't cheap.

A dogs life

Have you seen this

Optus Direct

How will it affect me

Exciting things coming up, basically sounds like they are shifting everyone from 500Mbs to 1500Mbs for the same price, provided you are in an area where they service

squeezzii

Hey worzel,Im a bit concerned as we are literally reading all the bumph now on which server to go with and all this talk of going over the limit within the month and the huge extra cost involved....whats your advice? We just do a bit of surfing and recv. emails with the occasional picture or downloadable joke and a bit of banking, are we gonna have to go the $69.99 straightaway do you think? and then theres the question of the best homephone plan ( I make a fair few uk calls each week) give us some advise please someone!

A dogs life

Though I'm not Worzel, I'll give you my advice anyway.

For the phone calls to the UK, buy an international phone card, most newsagents sell them. Then you can call the UK for about 1.5 cents per minute regardless of who your phone provider is. You can buy them at most newsagents, but especially if you go to chinatown or near universities. You pay $50 up front and then use them till they run out (at 1.5 cents per minute they take a loooonggg time to run out). You basically call their freephone number and then type in the pin on the card and then the number in the UK you want to ring.

From your usage description of the internet you certainly don't need to go to a 10 or 12 gig plan. there should be something in between, depending on which provider you go with. Most have a 2 or 4 gig a month limit which would be more than enough.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
ADL