On Thu, 09 May 2013 16:05:33 Toby Corkindale said,

If you can get the Optus network out there, why not go with a cheaper Optus reseller? Eg. These guys do 15G for a third of that price per month! (It says 4G, but in the fine print says that outside of the 4G coverage, it'll just fall back to 3G)

Thats for a monthly account, Virgin has 12G monthly accounts for 39$, BUT I do not want a monthly account so one is stuck with what I have (I find it OK to work this way, in life one makes choices to suit ones own values), There are other issues as I do __not__ have any kind of plastic money, everything has to be done by cash or money order. This latter requirement cuts out most current suppliers. Normally the data limit is not really an issue, 12 gig lasting anything from 3 to 6 months. Note: I do not like the net much, only a small percentage such as Linux and a few railway sites are worth anything at all. Lindsay