Hi- we're waiting to sell our house then we're off to Perth! What's the best way to stay online during this transition period using only one provider?? We have a new laptop and we know we can get a dongle pay as you go with UK providers but will it work indefinitely when we get to Oz? or will we need to get another in Oz? Are we better buying an Aussie one? We'd really like to buy it now so we're up and running (and so we can loose our desktop!) any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

Would like to know the answer to this one too as I haven't a clue as i need my daily dose of BE

while we were living from hotels and motels before we bought a house we used to drive in nice looking estates and use our laptop from the car thanks to other peoples wifi connections,
not a huge amount of internet cafes in northern brissy especialy after 6 at night

Most shopping centres have $2 for 20mins type terminals. Once you get anything with a perm address like a rental agreement, then you can get a library card, and use the computers at the libraries for free.

Tayles! Me too! Thanks guys. I really wanted to be able to use our laptop, I guess there is no easy way to do that!!??!

Unless you absolutely need broadband, and can live with a modest connection speed for browsing the internet/skype and such, then I would recommend not choosing a provider and going wireless instead...

It's (mostly) free, and wireless 'hotspots' are literally everywhere you go these days, such as libraries and coffee shops.

How to setup wireless --
http://www.freewifi.com.au/images/wi...structions.pdf

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/pho...dband#wireless for some useful info for wireless in the UK...

and this for WA hotspot info http://www.freewifi.com.au/region_wa.php

However naive some people at home are with their wireless routers, try to make sure you don't 'piggyback' onto their connection, as it is a bit of a grey area and considered illegal...

Optus do a 45 day pre-paid unlimited dial up connection kit for $34.95 you can pick up the kit in most large shopping centers, it's usefull when you first arrive and are staying in temporary accomadation.
http://www.optus.com.au you will not be able to set it up from the UK but can set it up quickly here.

Once you have found a long term rental then you should be able to get broadband either ADSL or wireless, but this will be on a contract and you will need a fixed address for this.

In most shopping centres there is also PC's with high speed broadband available they charge $2 for 20mins, you create a username & pw so can save unused mins, it's also a way of staying online when you first arrive.

We also switched our email to Gmail (part of google) so our email is not tied to our service provider and can be access anywhere.

Thankyou so much for the links and great advice! Love moneysaving expert- never thought of looking there this time tho!

Thanks for that too!

Hi Simba
Just to be sure , are you suggesting Opus dial up connection becuase they do not ask for permanent address ?


Thanks

Optus/telstra dialup connections, all you need is a phoneline to plug in to. You buy a disc in the post office/newsagents etc and stick it in your laptop, plug into the phoneline and away you go.

Re: How do we stay online while migrating..?!

Really, really, really long extension lead?

Breakfast at Macdonalds, lunch at Starbucks - both hotpsots

If you get a 3 payg usb dongle from UK, you can (according to the man at 3) get it unlocked which would mean that you could then put in an Aus sim but AFAIK we dont have a payg broadband scheme.

Thanks for the info