Seeing as I'm moving, and with the new restriction of Telstra, the restructuring of Optus, and the proliferation of their competitors, I'm currently considering changing providers. Anyone with good broadband plans, list the prices and capabilities of your providers. Considering I'm a Telstra whore currently, I'll begin:

Telstra Cable "Unlimited" Plan [With Own Cable Modem]

Cost/Month: $59.95
Allowance: 10gig
Download Speed: Unlimited
Upload Speed: 16ks
Contract Length: 3 Months
Installation Fee: $189

do it yourself.

ya lazy phucka

Download Speed: Unlimited**

I have been doing it, I know the optus and iinet plans as well, but I don't know of any other companies that do good plans. Thought it might be interesting to have a direct comparison for everyone to rate their plans, but, y'know, thinking is the first step towards failure.

iinet dslam plans seem to be win to me

if you are lucky enough to live near one of the only 2 or 3 brisbane exchanges that are enabled.

I had optus cable when it first came out, now I am on bigpond cable, if i moved I would go back to optus and they got free installs atm

if you are lucky enough to live near one of the only 2 or 3 brisbane exchanges that are enabled.

cept u dont actually need to be on the dslams to get the standard new plans (the only limitation is having iiphone to get $10 off each month and double the quota)

if you are lucky enough to live near one of the only 2 or 3 brisbane exchanges that are enabled.

For iiNet:

Chapel Hill

Charlotte (in progress)

Eight Mile Plains

South Brisbane

Toowong

Valley

Woolloongabba (in Progress)

Sure that's not all of Brisbane, but it's a good start and will hopefully get the competition active. If you live in those areas that iiNet has hardware in, you'll likely get 8Mbit, otherwise you'll be stuck on ... *gasp* 1.5Mbit (!!1), which is not bad as the lowest speed on offer.

Personally, I'll be doing 40GB/month @ 8Mbit for $70 (split with roomy).

Link to plans here (iiNet pimpage count: 35141)


last edited by parabol at 19:07:56 20/Feb/05

OptusNet Cable is good now, 12 gb on peak, 24 off-peak