What Type Of Internet Connection Do You Have?

[ozwinner]

Are you sure the ones the other folk fire back have messages attached?

Cheers,

Yes, but its usually in French.

Al :confused:

[Shedhand]

I have BigLake ADSL. 512/256 now. Ridiculously expensive at 70 bucks a month. When my mobile contract ends I'm signing up for TasTel BPL for a similar price that I'm paying now I can get 4mb/1mb with 250gb allowance plus free BPL to BPL VoIP calls and 10c local calls. Then I'm dumping my my landline service.

[black1]

i have a very slow dialup. 34.6kbps. hate it . will get broadband soon. (hopefully if the war office will let me)

[Ashore]

i h a v e a v e r y s l o w d i a l u p . 3 4 . 6 k b p s . h a t e i t . w i l l g e t b r o a d b a n d s o o n . ( h o p e f u l l y i f t h e w a r o f f i c e w i l l l e t m e)

Sorry black but can you send that again or are you going slow mo for effect

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Bugger. Meant Cable, did BB instead.

Optus Unlimited, of which I oft times exceed the "unlimited" limits. I've had no cause for complaints in the last 12 months... indeed it's so damned fast & useful that I've already almost forgotten the trials'n'tribulations of dial-up over the last decade or so.

Anyone remember 1200/75 baud modems? Come to that, anyone want to buy some? Going cheap!

[Schtoo]

The box says ADSL.

All I know is I get an alleged 1Mb/s (and it's not really slow that often, even though most of it's traffic is out of country) and it costs us about $80 per month, including the phone bill and equipment rental and everything else. Throw in about 30 mins of international phone calls into that bill while yer there too.

It's never been 'off' in about 3 years since we have had it. Pretty happy with it all actually.


Got a friend that lives out in the sticks here (take that as you will) who has 'cable' as they call it. Cable TV is free with the internet, which is good because you sure as heck would have trouble paying for it...

Fastest peak download speed he has seen was faster than his hardrives, can't recall the exact figure.

And he is running a dual AMD processor thingy, so don't be thinking his hardrives are what you would call slow. The perks of making websites for a crust I guess.

[echnidna]

Up yours T****ra - Free at last!

I'm jealous.

[Exador]

Bigpond cable here. I have 3 PCs on it at the moment (was 7 , but I realised most weren't getting used). Motorola SGB900 wireless modem/router and netgear USB wireless NICs, giving average D/L of about 7-8Mb/s. I've been on cable since 00, originally with Optus, then Telstra (Optus are a bunch of dills to deal with) and I will only change once ADSL can offer 50Mb/sec (genuinely, not the headline number). I'm really hoping that Telstra bite the bullet and upgrade their cable network to DOCSIS 2.0, as that will give me a true 30Mb/sec d/l, not that I do all that much D/L anymore, rarely going over about 3GB a month out of my 10, but it's nice to have it when you want it.

[ptc]

Bazza.
I'm on Hibis V sat Bordernet. 251/64 $59.50 a month.for 1000mb d/L
And is very inconsistant on speeds.
Who is your server ?
My 18 mnths contract ends next month.
i can not even use voip !!
May be your People Are better than my lot.
Info appreciated.

[davo453]

I also have Hibis vSat (dual band satellite) with bordernet 512/128 $69 a month.

It's my only option living 36k's out of Albany, there is talk of wireless in the area but I hear there are restrictions on that.

I can't really complain about the service, but the 1000meg limit is miserly and I often go over it. My speed doesn't seem to fluctuate much either.

Cheers


Dave

[duckman]

Bugger. Meant Cable, did BB instead.

Optus Unlimited, of which I oft times exceed the "unlimited" limits. I've had no cause for complaints in the last 12 months... indeed it's so damned fast & useful that I've already almost forgotten the trials'n'tribulations of dial-up over the last decade or so.

Anyone remember 1200/75 baud modems? Come to that, anyone want to buy some? Going cheap!

I've still got my 1200 baud Netcomm modem. Its propping up the short leg on my dining room table.

[savage]

I have a group of runner's, but I'll be updating soon to pony express!..

ADSL B/Band 12gig 1500/256 Iprimus + anti-spam.

[Sturdee]

Optus cable, no T*****A , with 3 computers on the home network, no upload limit, 13 gig monthly peak times down load limit and a bonus of 12 gig ofpeak down load limit for $ 69 a month.

If we exceed this it reverts to to dial up speed without any extra charge. This usually happens on the last 2 days of the month.


Peter.

[Shedhand]

Every couple of weeks I get a call from Optus with some fantastic offer if I switch to Optus Broadand. I reckon I've told them a million times that Optus don't provide a broadband service to Tasmania. You'd think they'd know what services they provide and where they provide them wouldn't you. Dills.

[ozwinner]

Every couple of weeks I get a call from Optus with some fantastic offer if I switch to Optus Broadand. I reckon I've told them a million times that Optus don't provide a broadband service to Tasmania. You'd think they'd know what services they provide and where they provide them wouldn't you. Dills.

How do you expect poor ol Goupter to know whats going on and where you live??

Al