can anyone tell me who is the best ISP provider to go with in perth there seems to be alot of information about downloads, as i was a telewest broadband user in the uk it was just your download speed and that was it unlimited downloads any info would be much appreciated did a search on the forum and could not find any info help!!!!!

interesting as we both do a lot of online gaming / surfing etc.

how is broadband in Oz ? Perth is where we are looking to move to as well.

i to am a blueyonder customer in the uk with a 2mb unlimited download connection which is being upped to a max 10mb ! over the next 4 months.

i've been assuming no where else can be as backward as the uk appears to be for the take off of broadband and wifi?

i am already living in perth

so how is broadband over there compared to UK ?

speeds ? availability ? costs ?

As always for questions like this, Whirlpool is your friend

Hi this is Emzee's husband i afraid you are out of luck and you will soon learn how good the internet is in the UK,We are in rockingham WA about 45 mins from Perth at the moment i play online Bf2 and Cod and cant wait to get back to the UK for the internet,they only seem to do 1.5MB adsl here you would very lucky to get cable internet here,it has a habit when playing on line of crashing or you seem to get alot of lag,I have a alianware area 51 PC a very good one top of the range and i still get lag and a high ping,at least back in the UK i can get 3MB for what i am paying here for 1.5MB plus you only get 10GB download a month and if you go over that your speed drops to 56k.So no the internet is shit here compared to the UK.P.S I'm with Big pond not sure what the rest are like but not much different i bet.Hope that helps

oh !

not wot i expected or hoped !

Our work head office is at Perth INTERNATIONAL Airport and apparently the whole airport is still on dialup!!

http://www.jahozafat.com/cgi-bin/tvw...s=inetcptr.wav

the no1 is westnet
they are not necessary the cheapest but they have the best aftersales service & the least interruptions


www.westnet.com.au
hth

pootle26

When our contract expires (currently with DODO) we are going with iinet (www.iinet.com.au) they have download speeds of upto 12000 pretty fast I am sure you will agree. The one thing to watch for over here is that you get a decent amount of download per month, as you get clobbered if you go over your limit, try the unlimited download packages (if you can afford them, b/b seems more expensive here than in the UK)

Does anybody else have a f***ing clue what these people are talking about ?

Three Legs

i guess i've found my first 'troll' on BE forums.

i'll be sure to try out the broadband stuff whilst we over in Perth next Feb /March and see how good it aint.

i've waited years for good old england to get any sort of decent speeds - cant believe somewhere else is behind us

How is a speed of 12000 behind the UK, when most people in the UK have 256, 512 or 1000 if they are very lucky. 12000 download speed downloads 400 and 500 meg files in a matter of minutes rather than hours.

You cant get that kind of speed everywhere.And i have just sorted out my internet for the uk that is 4mb but you can get 8mb in the uk now.

Download speeds are becoming more and more irrelevant beyond the now-standard 2Mb down-stream. I mean, it has a miniscule bearing on your ping in games and it will have no bearing on the speed with which you can download P2P files such as torrents (which rely heavily on your up-stream speed), so what exactly is the point of having 8Mb or 24Mb (as Bulldog offer now)? The only thing that counts is having a lot of quota - preferably unlimited.