Monday, October 10, 2005 - 05:58 pm, by: Kate Green(Mischief)
thanks for your thoughts, seems like TPG is pretty good, yes there are so many different companies/plans!! Just to throw another one in the ring, Funnelweb have no installation fee, $40 gets 3 gig of downloads or $50 gets 5 gig downloads with speed slowed after that is reached. A mate of Stu's has it and reckons they are good. But your plan sounds fine and dandy Sam. Thanks for the whirlpool link Michael, will give that a look tonight. Cheers everyone, I think I will be needing a beer or two to make a decision....oh well!!!
Monday, October 10, 2005 - 06:37 pm, by: Ollie Ernst(Oli_g)
Thanks for the offer Steve but like I said I wouldn't be able to find time to play it.
Kate.......Sorry for the slow response. We have TPG on an ADSL plan in Jerrabomberra. I agree with what everyone else said about them. As long as you never need their helpdesk people when something goes wrong they're not bad. When the arse falls out of the connection you're never able to get through to find out what's going on or how long it'll be down for which is VERY frustrating. Particularly for us because we run 200-300 Ebay auctions at a time and need to be in constant contact with buyers via email etc. Overall though, the outages haven't been a big problem so far.
One thing though, have you checked if the line to your house is ADSL ready? The reason I ask is we had a 2 month battle with TELSTRA because they claimed that ADSL wasn't available in the area. I found out through a TELSTRA liney that there were people in our very street that had it yet they still denied us access. It was only when I said we only use the landline for dialup internet and that was no longer viable given our Ebay traffic so we said we'd disconnect the phone line altogether and go with a non-TELSTRA mobile for phone calls that within a week we miraculously got an email at work from TPG telling us that TELSTRA had made our place ADSL enabled. Just thought it'd be worth mentioning.
Monday, October 10, 2005 - 06:47 pm, by: Alan Chow(Kfchow)
ey jeff.... i got iibroadband2 heavy 40 gigs 1.5mb... for.... free .
In terms of tech support i can vouch that they are good. I run the melb callcenter on the weekends:P
If you're interested we also offer voip for free if you bundle your internet with your phone. So in other words you get two phone lines for the price of one.
If you want more info you can contact us on 131 917 for general sales enquries or if you're sick of waiting in the queues theres 131 789 (thats the melb callcenter which has a almost zero wait queue).
Monday, October 10, 2005 - 07:50 pm, by: Adam Lonergan(Alchemistal)
Kate, these links might have saved Ollie some grief and help you in the coming weeks... belive it or not (Alan might have better info) Telstra (as you and I know it) doesn't seem to know what it's wholesale business is up to, or seem to make available information about future upgrades to its own staff.
Get informed... know your exchange... know if there are 'slots' available... know about the ADSL2 roll outs.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 07:37 pm, by: Kate Green(Mischief)
Well, whirlpool IS easy to use, even I understood it! It gave me a good plan, well in theory anyway...Grapevine (thru transact) has..(oh buggar I forgot the specs..) Ollie, I will have to confirm the adsl connection thing and also how much it is to connect to it. It's a start anyway..let you know when I finally decide....many thanks for all the good suggestions and advice, you guys rock!
Sunday, October 16, 2005 - 03:33 pm, by: Alan Chow(Kfchow)
*cough* yeah bout that neil... ozemail isn't fully migrated yet. Still heaps of problems. Billing might be a bit out of whack so keep track of your bills. if we've under billed you we'll end up billing you later without approval for the lot (i know its stupid).
as for dslam rollouts check out the website (http://www.iinet.net.au) theres a list of which suburbs will or have been upgraded.
Monday, October 17, 2005 - 10:30 pm, by: James Lamanna(Soarenhigh)
TPG unbeatable only gone down 2 or 3 times mainly on weekends. i found when it goes down i can still visit .au sites! Here's my plan 1.5 mb/s @ 59.95 a month 30 gig then after that slowed down to dial-up.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - 02:22 pm, by: Brenton Trafford(Traff)
I've had girlfriends that go down less than TPG! I'd stay the hell away from them. Internode is one of the best ISP's in Australia. Adam are also very good but I don't know if they're only Adelaide based or not.
Wasn't there a regular on the old ALSC website that ran an ISP?
Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 11:32 am, by: Kate Green(Mischief)
Well finally went with TPG on a light user plan which drops the speed when limit is reached. Six month plan and paid for a modem which will be ADSL2 compatible when it rolls out. Plan cost is $29.95 per mth for 1GB on 256/64k. There was so much out there and I really have no idea as to how much we download, so at least we can upgrade to a higher user plan if we cant cope with the slower speed. At any rate, even at 64k, this is shed loads faster than what the speed is now. Ollie, had no problem getting ADSL so that was good. Just waiting for the modem to arrive and we will be right to go. Again, thanks for everyones advice on this thread, it really did help.
Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 07:00 pm, by: Peter Burrett(Burrett)
Wow, are we lucky to have Transact?..... we have 512Kb speed, 20 GB download with speed throttling after that for $35 per month less a discount of 10% for bundling all gas, water, electricity and internet thru the same provider... snot bad
Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 08:20 pm, by: David Vaughan(Davidv)
Is the speed maintained Peter? I have 256Kb/s at the moment and am looking at 2Mb/s or 12Mb/s. It appears I can have the fomer with 14GB for $39 for the ISP and $65 for Transact. plus $25 for the line. Not really a saving over Telstra, surprisingly, but faster for the same money. I would like to know that the Transact equipment is reasonable quality and the speed is sustained as I have heard poor reports from an employee of that company.