Hi all we have finally secured a rental in Caboolture and travel there next week (were in Adelaide at he moment) so I am looking at Broadband deals we were quite heavy users in the UK so we are looking at TPG Internet they offer 50gig for $49.99 just wondering if anyone has any experience of them or any simular deals I should know about.

Why is ther a data limit anyway why can't they do it like the UK so much easier

If anyone has any advice on land line and Mobiles I would be interested too.

We have tpg it's good no problems here

We have TPG ADSL2 and its good:

Good fast speed - (we get 14Mbs down , 700kbs up and a ping of 25ms and are 2km from the exchange).

We have a 40Gb/110Gb plan which is plenty (have ONCE used all 40Gb, but never got even close to using the 110off peak since off-peak is only 3am-9am?).

The only thing I will say is tha I've recently started getting "Cease & Decist" letters forwarded from MAFIAA for some BitTorrent activity so obviously I need to take more measures to protect myself from potential prosecution!

iinet are meant to be good too.

a good site here:

http://www.comparebroadband.com.au/?...FQ0xawod01d-TA

Oops! You can get a bit of software that covers up your torrent activity...

I'm not sure what it is, but Hutch could prob tell you.

peerguardian is the software but nothing really keeps you safe. iinet currently doesn't forward the C&D notices.

Yeah I've been a bit slack with my security lately (servers dying and being rebuilt, its all been a bit hurried) - 'Peersafe' and 'Peerguardian' programs do hide your details from some malicious lawmen - but are certainly not foolproof. I'm exploring a few different avenues of obfuscation now:

1) IP Blockers (as mentioned above - not foolproof as the list of 'bad guys' is ALWAYS out of date)
1) Internationaly hosted proxies (there's a mob in Uraguay, one in Sweden who look potentialy interesting - might have to read up on Uruguayan law though to see how they regard privacy!!)
2) Usenet rather than BitTorrent (just a plain old fashioned download, so no need to expose my ip address to ANYONE)

..and of course I'm keeping my eyes open for developments in how to stay ahead in the digital rights arms race!

yeah - until their legal case is heard. Until thats resolved (and that could be YEARS) - all bets are off as to how ISPs are going to handle this problem! They certainly dont want to discourage heavy downloaders or they wouldnt be able to sell their more expensive data plans, but they also dont want to expose themselves to unnecessary legal risk.
Interesting times ahead for sure. One thing's for certain, TV networks cant win if they 'switch off' the internet tommorow I still wouldnt watch anything on 7, 9, or 10!!!

TPG is cheaper but you get what you pay for. They are often the only ADSL2+ provider other than Hellstra. I still stick with Node on DSL1 rather than go with either of those ISPs.

For options goto www.whirlpool.net.au and put in your phone number.

IINet have good reputation as well.

I ran foul of TPG service a long time ago.

p2p only exists because its cheaper than shared servers or paid usenet services. If the ISP kill p2p, then the networks would be more conjested with full bandwidth usenet downloads.

We're with PGTips, or whatever it's called and has been all good so far.

I've been with TPG since the days of steam dial up. Prior to that I was with three other ISPs. Have found TPG to be solid and dependable but they do seem to be a bit slow to adapt to new technology. They have no idea about naked internet or wireless internet for travellers.

Most of their staff seem to have a very high level of technical competency but English is not generally their first language, I usually get some most peculiar replies to my e-mails. Mind you that sort of thing happens in MacDonalds when I place a simple order for just a cup of tea to someone who's only language is English.

The ISP does not care either way because the congestion will happen at their end either way. The volume of download is the same.

Yhanks everyone for the replies looks good then apart from the issues with torrents but there are ways around I suppose if you were to do such a thing

Is it like the UK in the sense that you have to have a land line?

Yes and No.....

You can have

1) a land line with telephone and ADSL
2) A land line, no telephone and ADSL ( Naked ADSL )
3) Wireless 3G. (Vodaphone, virgin , 3 ) This is getting cheaper and lots of people are opting for it as its a usb doggle you can use on the move etc.