On 23/03/12 11:19, Tim Connors wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
On 5/03/2012 10:46 PM, Rohan McLeod wrote:
t's of interest I have an NBN / iPrimus fibre connection in Brunswick; for $43/month bundled with a $27 VOIP phone
If it's of interest I have an NBN / iPrimus fibre connection in Brunswick; for $43/month bundled with a $27 VOIP phone account; I get 5GB peak and 10GB off-peak at 25Mbps down and 5Mbps up; mostly speedtest seems to indicate I'm getting about 22Mbps down, with actual downloads anywhere from 12Mbps - 22Mbps; dropping to back to 120Kbps beyond the 5Gb cap.; price is not brilliant; but I don't have to worry about rain !
Ouch, you can get a 100/40 account from Exetel with a static IP for $70 with 300G download (uploads NOT counted). Shaping is not near as vicious either.
You realise that you've just listed something almost twice as expensive as what he's using, right? Sometimes people don't need all that data. Say, if they're not using bittorrent. Then it's ok to go by price if they get the service they want.
(I was just looking at smart phone prepaid plans. None are suitable for me. I want to pay less than $20 per month, which I can do with a non smartphone by virtue of having some credit that can last 365 days, as long as I don't use it. Which I don't. Very few providers seem to realise that not everyone wants to talk and text on their phone all day every day. Sometimes we only want something for emergencies because we're unsociable bastards).
I pay $10 a month (post-paid) and get 1500 MB of data (excluding social media, which is free) and more calls and SMS than I use if I try! (I think around 2000 SMS?) The options are out there. Toby