The Internet/Mobile Phone/Cable/Home Phone Providers thread.

firestar · Post by **firestar** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:14 pm

Being new to Oz, I had a hard time finding an internet provider that didn't want to do a credit check (as I have none here yet) - I'm with "Unwired" which is pretty good and I bought my modem on ebay for half the price they sell them for (and a big haha to unwired)

What I want to know is, how do you guys get around these ridiculous bandwidth limits without blowing your budget?

Unwired offers a 8gb limit ofr $50/month. But I download a lot of stuff, music, movies etc, and would go through 8gb in a week easily.. So what do I do? I can't do a long contract as I'm not 100% on my length of stay here, and no credit. I think I'm screwed until I can get some credit. 8gb is nothing though! Especially as I'm always uploading and downloading stuff from my website, ugh!

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:48 pm

www.broadbandchoice.com.au

best

PahMaLa · Post by **PahMaLa** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:12 am

Optus

http://www.optus.com.au/home/index.html

(I work there, but don't ask me what is best. Take a geeze and you judge for yourself)

nic · Post by **nic** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:13 am

but i liked ur old name better

almax · Post by **almax** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:57 am

we have TPG which is $69 per month and 150gig limit. 40 gig is peak time the rest you have to use between 1am-6am or something like that

mizuhodai · Post by **mizuhodai** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:21 pm

OCN NTT DOCOMO Hikari fibre(super speed wire, japan)
32$ per month
unlimited downloads
100mbps

its so good!!

Post by **huge** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:23 pm

quiet japan!

mizuhodai · Post by **mizuhodai** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:26 pm

he he he sorry

kronz · Post by **kronz** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:35 pm

mizuhodai wrote:OCN NTT DOCOMO Hikari fibre(super speed wire, japan)
32$ per month
unlimited downloads
100mbps

its so good!!

FUCK YOU ROB!!!!!!!!!

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:41 pm

mizuhodai wrote:OCN NTT DOCOMO Hikari fibre(super speed wire, japan)
32$ per month
unlimited downloads
100mbps

its so good!!

ENOUGH of you and your super fast special intermanet connections......

WE in Oz are having to make do with....well yes

mizuhodai · Post by **mizuhodai** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:28 am

i also have this robot that does my laundry and dry cleaning!

Post by **fooishbar** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:17 am

not quite as good as japan, but i have 24/1 adsl2+ for â‚¬50/mo here, no data limits, no capping, etc.

Post by **lynt** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:19 am

Naked iiNet here. Nice. ADSL2+, $89, 30gb/60gb.

Phyltr · Post by **Phyltr** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:33 pm

They include upload data in your quota with naked though, yeah?

If memory serves me correctly, that was the only thing that stopped me getting naked. (I'm sure you're all breathing a sigh of relief..)

How do you find naked lynt?

firestar · Post by **firestar** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:29 am

almax wrote:we have TPG which is $69 per month and 150gig limit. 40 gig is peak time the rest you have to use between 1am-6am or something like that

Yeah a guy from my work told me about TPG and said it was the best deal around, is that deal on a plan? eg: 24 months

konk · Post by **konk** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:51 am

Phyltr wrote:They include upload data in your quota with naked though, yeah?

If memory serves me correctly, that was the only thing that stopped me getting naked. (I'm sure you're all breathing a sigh of relief..)

How do you find naked lynt?

i almost got conned for this when i was signing up.. they sneakingly hid "uploads" at the end of the page

I have iinet 24/1
speeds are good 1.7-2MB/s bit pricey tho

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:16 am

firestar wrote:
almax wrote:we have TPG which is $69 per month and 150gig limit. 40 gig is peak time the rest you have to use between 1am-6am or something like that
Yeah a guy from my work told me about TPG and said it was the best deal around, is that deal on a plan? eg: 24 months

tpg is great.... the only reason I'm not with them now is coz I moved house and they don't service my new joint. iinet are good although their customer service bites arse.

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:34 pm

deviant wrote:
firestar wrote:
almax wrote:we have TPG which is $69 per month and 150gig limit. 40 gig is peak time the rest you have to use between 1am-6am or something like that
Yeah a guy from my work told me about TPG and said it was the best deal around, is that deal on a plan? eg: 24 months
tpg is great.... the only reason I'm not with them now is coz I moved house and they don't service my new joint. iinet are good although their customer service bites arse.

So do iiNet have wireless

Post by **breaksRbest** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:54 pm

Charlie73 wrote:So do iiNet have wireless

if you sign with iiNet (and most others I'm sure) they usually supply you with an ADSL modem, this will not let you sit on teh couch and talk on mb.c without any wires attatched to your lappy.

You can upgrade to a wireless router/modem for an extra cost.

If you already have the modem, but not the router you can just buy one and hook it up to your existing modem.

One thing to think of is that if your modem is not in the list of their 'preferred modems' you'll have trouble getting support when something goes wrong.

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:00 pm

Ah Okies, our lappy has a built in wireless modem, but yeah we don't have a router, we have the modem we got from Telstra, we just are sick of paying through the nose for crap that is the Big T..

Post by **breaksRbest** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:03 pm

you'll need all 3...

1. a Modem to connect to the intermawebs
2. a Wireless Router to send the signal from the modem
3. a Wireless card in the lappy to receive the routers signal

you can cut it down to 2 if you get a combined modem/router

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:10 pm

ah shanks mate.... Okies, might keep looking, wireless is a MUST.... Am sick of cords everywhere. We were looking at the iiNet $79.95 a month

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:13 pm

theres a good wireless router and modem all in one for $129.00 atm.. Can't remember make or model tho..

firestar · Post by **firestar** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:19 am

Ah, I haven't posted on this thread for a while..

So I was on "Unwired" which gave me 8gb wireless adsl for like $75 a month, which sucked.

My area doesn't allow adsl2, which also sucks.

But I found TPG has the best deal for regular adsl, 18gb, 10 peak 8 off peak, 1500, for $50/month, their customer service has been great so far as well.
No credit check and 6 month contract (for an extra $50 or so, not too bad)

Anyways, I'm really happy with tpg so far

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:14 am

We are getting screwed by Telstra, they are saying we have uesd almost 25 gig in 20 days! And we are just not on the net at home that much let alone download that much!

What counts as a download - or at least what takes from your gig?

Post by **system** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:14 pm

both upload and download would likely count.

Charlie73 · Post by **Charlie73** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:30 pm

yeah but what is considered a download?

any sort of streaming?

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:57 pm

Short answer: Everything.

Every webpage you visit, file you download, stream you listen to, image you view.

diode · Post by **diode** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:09 pm

If you've got a wireless setup at home I would check for someone hacking your network.
WEP encryption can be hacked in 30 secs with or without SSID hidden.

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:15 pm

how would u know if u were hacked?

[apart form usage]

Post by **huge** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:24 pm

check what devices are connected to your router

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:27 pm

ah yes..

thank u computer people!

U can tell i work in IT hey

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:46 pm

breaksRbest wrote:
Charlie73 wrote:So do iiNet have wireless
if you sign with iiNet (and most others I'm sure) they usually supply you with an ADSL modem, this will not let you sit on teh couch and talk on mb.c without any wires attatched to your lappy.

You can upgrade to a wireless router/modem for an extra cost.

If you already have the modem, but not the router you can just buy one and hook it up to your existing modem.

One thing to think of is that if your modem is not in the list of their 'preferred modems' you'll have trouble getting support when something goes wrong.

so i need a phone line, and innernet at home.
optus can suck my big black dick, just for the record.

iinet has the home deal with free local and interste calls, no line rental and 35mg for $70 per month.
but you need VIOP enabled modem, of which i have two modems and neitehr will work.

they said $150 join fee, plus $100 for VIOP adapter for my current netgear modem...
i cant seem to get a vIOP from dick smith or officeworks, said its new technology...

anyone got VOIP for phone and innernet?
is this technology gonna take off or are we going to hear the sob stories soon?
any other tips on the package idea?

Post by **system** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:20 pm

ghetto kitty wrote:iinet has the home deal with free local and interste calls, no line rental and 35mg for $70 per month.

i assume you mean 35gb (gigabytes) there.

ghetto kitty wrote:anyone got VOIP for phone and innernet?
is this technology gonna take off or are we going to hear the sob stories soon?

this technology (routing voice calls over packet switched networks, i.e. the internet) has been around for ~25 years - all that's happening now is that end users are able to use the technology directly to save money. you need to have an internet connection to use voip services, aka internet calls.

ghetto kitty wrote:any other tips on the package idea?

try tpg, they have some good bundles apparently.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:29 pm

heheh yup, i meant GB...

and roger that on VIOP, so its not new, of course, just new to us plebs...

will check out tpg, thanks system...

same o · Post by **same o** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:47 pm

i just plug into the matrix.

all 1's and 0's for me baby

Post by **breaksRbest** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:50 pm

VOIP was awesome when I had it. Slashed my phone bill by about 75%

iiNet supplied me with the Modem & VOIP 'voice-box', I bought teh Wireless Router myself

you can definitely get a VOIP box at Officeworks, I've seen them. I think they have Engin branded ones from memory.

Voice box plugs into the Modem and you can plug any phone into the back of the voice box and VOILA

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:03 pm

hmmm, talked to officeworks, they seemed to not know what the hell i was talking bout...

i gots wireless router already, so just need teh VIOP box, any idea how much it was brb?

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