Broadband - General
 

Please excuse my ignorance!

Just browsing and looking for a broadband/tv package for new house. Can someone give me some very basic advice re "useage allowance"? There is 2GB, 100GB, 200GB listed and I haven't got a clue what that means in real terms! For regular, every day, home use, what should I be looking for?

Thanks

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How many people in the house and how much porn do you download? !!

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Ha ha!

Two people only............and too old for porn!

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OK, well I have two teenage sons who are never off their PC's, I work from home, and my wife uses her laptop all the time as well. I have a package from iiNet that's 40Gb peak and 40Gb off peak and that seems to be enough. Unless you are planning to start downloading lots of TV programs, films, etc then something like that would be more than enough for you by the sound of it.

I would suggest probably something around the 10Gb might even be enough. You can always increase it later if it proves to be inadequate.

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Thanks Spam

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Anytime Fritter :)

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There are two of us online, and we never use more than 5 - 7% of our monthly 50Gb.

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I spend all day on the Internet updating various websites etc, and use about 1GB a month. No facebook, no movies etc., just work related type things, and forums.

My daughter, who spends a few hours a day on it, can easily use 8 to 12Gb a month.

My sister, who uses it for email and a few Googles a day, uses under 500mb a month.

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I was using 10 giga bites in 8 months prepaid... But now kevin has moved home with the boyfriend, the other kids are all computeered up and HE has discovered utube.... Not to mention their games that tney play..

Costing me a bloody fortune it is...

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TPG do a no limit Broadband and Home phone package for $49 per month. As much downloads as your left hand can handle with no extra costs!!

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Only if you are in their ADSL2+ coverage zone.

TPG Coverage

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True....I'm assuming therefore that you mountain dwellers with duelling banjo homesteads are not then?? :)

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No - its a sore subject, lol.

When we first moved here we were on a 25gb on/25gb off which left us juggling downloads near the end of the month. I think they had a rejig of their packages and now we seem to get 50gb anytime - we haven't capped on that which is good news, but we don't download half the things we'd want to.

We live in hope of ADSL2+ reaching further up and out - at the moment we have a friend just outside Penrith who kindly downloads stuff for us :D

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lmfao....now that just conjures up all sorts of things for me......but then again I have a very warped and rude sense of humour!!!

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It's $59.99 not $49.