Short story here - my ISP has gone belly-up (no more dingoblue... wauuu!) so I went hunting for one with about the same prices/features, and came across one that's been pretty stable the las few years, and does adsl at decent prices (for here, anyhow :D. At the moment I'm paying around $60ish a month oz money for the dialup - including the cost of phonecalls... taking into account the lack of phonecall fees for an adsl connection, I figure I can spend around that much on any other connect - and internode.com.au have a couple of decent sounding possibilities around that price. they -claim- to be platform agnostic, and have no probs with multiple machines NAT'd off the one connection. Awesome!. No funky weird download/upload BOTH being charged... and expanding outside the state they started in around a month from now.
The only problem (a minor one really) is needing do buy a dsl modem outright at the start of the service - combined with the $150 setup fee thats around $600ish for a start - but thats nothing a little saving won't get past!.
Anyhows. Since I've whined about oz broadband so much lately, thought I should post something positive :D. Could be one or two other ofyas who could be after the same thing. http://adsl.internode.on.net/ is their adsl info page. It's still not as cheap as some of the overseas stuff, but it looks bearable
dana
Yay oz ADSL!
Posted - 12 Mar 2002 : 20:34:16
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