Im going to Get Broadband!!!

Ok folks... the big step is upon me!
Dialup is getting terminally sucky
Broadband Costs a bloody bucket here in Australia, thanks to damn Tel$tra... So dont laugh or cry when you see these plans, Believe me, they are the BEST available.
Dont have Cable TV, so cable is out of the picture (and too expensive) leaving just ADSL. 256/64 is just pathetic, 1500/256 is rediculously costly, leaving just 512/128 as moderately fast and affordable.
I will mostly use it to download pics, music and Divx movies. Also a bit of browsing and hopefully some decent Online gaming

Cost is in $AU where $1AU = $.58c US.

<b>ADSL Plans: Cost, Speed Down + Up, Prepaid Onpeak & Off, Excess charge per Gb, Other data.</b>
<b><i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i> - George W. Bush's favorite childhood book.
Note: This book was first published a year after Mr Bush graduated from College.</b>

I voted for 4 (you knew that). For everyone else, just select what you want and hit ENTER. You don't need the button.

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Yeah i was considering 4... but the fineprint makes it less exciting, especially if i want to do some gaming after heavy downloading.
With #4 your download speeds and quality of pings is determined by ones rank, and thats determined by your download habits for the past 30 days. *hmmm*

<b><i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i> - George W. Bush's favorite childhood book.
Note: This book was first published a year after Mr Bush graduated from College.</b>

I'll not vote for any. You really need to check all T & C with these ISPs. For example...my ISP is £3-£5 more expensive per month, but I get 8 (5 usable) static IPs, 50MB webspace hosted for free, unlimited monthly (5GB per day if you like ( )) bandwidth, and half decent tech support.

Rarely worry, pay an extra £3 per month for peace of mind, and decent services.

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wow. I'm not sure what to tell you anymore. It sounds like AOL has been influencing Aussie broadband

Just get the best that you can afford and accept it's faults I guess.

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How much is cable?

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

Somewhere between uber expensive and forget it.
Plus, its not available in my area, nor many others... rollout is somewhat slow.
Besides, if i could get it, it would mean putting a new line to and into the house... which would mean big $$$.

<b><i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i> - George W. Bush's favorite childhood book.
Note: This book was first published a year after Mr Bush graduated from College.</b>

Having reviewed lots of documents and details... and read reports from people at overclockers.com.au... the "unlimited" plan sounds nice, but apparently if you try to get unlimited one very quickly finds themselves at modem speeds. Not a great outcome.

<b><i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i> - George W. Bush's favorite childhood book.
Note: This book was first published a year after Mr Bush graduated from College.</b>

I voted 2 also. Kinda sounds like Tel$tra has a monopoly going on over there. I know what you can do, move to the U.S. where most cable providers have no caps whatsoever...lol. I hope the one you do pick works for you though!!

<font color=red>My computer is like a woman, once a month I have to spend money on it.</font color=red>

No, thats 8Gb on and another 8Gb off, with the $90 bux refering to costs per gigabyte OVER the caps.
And thats one of the better ones...
Should you get a measly 300Mb plan it costs something like $150/Gb if you go over your cap... Truly ass-raping in the extreme.

yeah... you have good USABLE broadband. Ours is expensive unreliable and capped to buggery!

<b><i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i> - George W. Bush's favorite childhood book.
Note: This book was first published a year after Mr Bush graduated from College.</b>

I thought i had covered that... or maybe not.

There are two main cable TV suppliers, Optus and Foxtel.

Foxtel dont do cable Internet, so the only real cable internet provider is optus, and i wont be getting that because.

A. Its not available in my area (and many others)
B. Its damn expensive!
C. If it were available, we would still have to rewire the house... and that's Expen$ive!

So there. ADSL is the only coice that wont break the bank.

<b><i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i> - George W. Bush's favorite childhood book.
Note: This book was first published a year after Mr Bush graduated from College.</b>

And your glad I can't kick you in the nuts from here for bringing that up.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on

i pay 39.99$ for comCast cable modem, i get good speeds, and i can't complain about the service, ... i have a router with 8 computers running on the n-work... everything is fast and runs fine.. for that low in price you can't go wrong..

RIG
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
80gb Maxtor
Lian-Li PC-60
Lite-On 52X
AMD XP2800+
LeadTek GeForce 4 Ti4200 w/vivo 128mb 8x
Hitachi CML174
1 GB Corsair XMS PC3200 Cas2

Would you guys stop boasting about your cheap broadband??? im getting jelous!

<b><i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i> - George W. Bush's favorite childhood book.
Note: This book was first published a year after Mr Bush graduated from College.</b>

Sorry, I dont consider $70 US cheap! but like you it is the only thing available.

I aint signing nothing!!!

What package did you decide on and when will you be up and running?

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Yes... its looks that way.
get #2 for limited downloads but reliable ping or #4 for heaps of downloads but allmost guaranteed shoddy ping.

<b><i>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</i> - George W. Bush's favorite childhood book.
Note: This book was first published a year after Mr Bush graduated from College.</b>

Considering there's a 6-month minimum contract, don't they offer a trial period?

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Found something usefull at the swapmeet? Found some PC3500 RAM for my preciousssssssssss?

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on

5 gig cap a month???? i download that in a week!!!

my computer is so fast, it completes an endless loop in less than 4 seconds!

no! stop spoiling my thread...
this is about MY broadband! *humf*

<b>Despite the huge top speeds, amazing acceleration and incredible G-Forces of Top Fuel Dragsters, a standed riced up Lancer often has a larger rear wing.</b>

Well im just about to spend many hundreds of dolalrs getting a nice router... imagine all those dollars going towards PC3500... what a shame eh?
$ $ $ $ $ $ $
*tease*

<b>Despite the huge top speeds, amazing acceleration and incredible G-Forces of Top Fuel Dragsters, a standed riced up Lancer often has a larger rear wing.</b>

be happy. you at least have the choice of ADSL. i have modem or isdn. and if you get isdn then they send some one round with a pinapple to screw you to hell if you even think of adsl ever again. the worst part is that we have a cable line running right past the end of the road but thats not conected in are area aparantly! if you want good broard band though, go to sweeden. E1 (to the us T1) is a cheep as cable and E3 is also very reasonable (dont have prices to hand but the goverment is supposed to be subserdising it to make it take off)

Now thats what I want to know!

Thanx. The decision has been made.

Some moderately cheap NIC, as they are all the same, some Dlink line filters, and a Dlink DSL504 router/adsl modem and #2 plan, the 6+6Gb one.


<b>You will die.
If you are lucky you may last ten decades.
If you are especially lucky you will be
remembered for another 5 decades.</b>

Intersting. Some people have no probs, others allways have had heaps.

Me personally ive had two Dlink products, a 56k modem and a NIC. Both have worked flawlessly, thats why im getting dlink router/adsl modem

<b>You will die.
If you are lucky you may last ten decades.
If you are especially lucky you will be
remembered for another 5 decades.</b>