Comments on: Surfin’ Australia http://www.bobinoz.com/blog/1071/surfin-australia/ What it's Really Like Living in Australia Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:06:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: BobinOz http://www.bobinoz.com/blog/1071/surfin-australia/#comment-1037 BobinOz Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:36:24 +0000 http://www.bobinoz.com/blog/?p=1071#comment-1037 Hi Jeremy Most ISP's cap your usage at some point and if you go over it your Internet connection slows down to a crawl as they switch you to a connection speed equivalent to dial up. For any of you who remember the Internet in the 90s, that's where it would take five minutes for each page to load. So you do need to shop around. The country's biggest supplier is bigpond who offer 25 GB per month for $79.95. I use TPG, who I highly recommend even though they royally messed up my recent telephone number change. Telstra (bigpond owners) were responsible for the bulk of the delay, but a TPG mistake added three or four days to process. But despite that their customer service is very good. I'd say excellent. They offer 130 GB per month for $49.95, 500 GB for $59.95 or unlimited for $75.00 See the difference? Hi Jeremy

Most ISP’s cap your usage at some point and if you go over it your Internet connection slows down to a crawl as they switch you to a connection speed equivalent to dial up. For any of you who remember the Internet in the 90s, that’s where it would take five minutes for each page to load.

So you do need to shop around. The country’s biggest supplier is bigpond who offer 25 GB per month for $79.95.

I use TPG, who I highly recommend even though they royally messed up my recent telephone number change. Telstra (bigpond owners) were responsible for the bulk of the delay, but a TPG mistake added three or four days to process. But despite that their customer service is very good. I’d say excellent.

They offer 130 GB per month for $49.95, 500 GB for $59.95 or unlimited for $75.00

See the difference?

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.bobinoz.com/blog/1071/surfin-australia/#comment-1032 Jeremy Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:04:19 +0000 http://www.bobinoz.com/blog/?p=1071#comment-1032 I know this post has been up for a while, but I did have a question about internet use in Australia. Does your service provider there have a monthly data cap? It seems like many of the service providers I've looked up in Oz have limits to how much data you can transfer per month with charges they tack on nicely if you happen to go over without letting you know. Kind of like having a cell phone and going over your allotted minutes. Is this pretty much standard there and if so... why? I'd think a company that set up in Australia that offered unlimited usage for data (and offered great customer service without insane phone rules) could price competition out of the market or force them to start offering unlimited data as well. Being here in the USA, it's kind of an unheard of concept for home internet use to be limited in that way. Since I use the internet often as a replacement for cable television, Hulu.com for example, I'm definitely curious to find out more. I know this post has been up for a while, but I did have a question about internet use in Australia. Does your service provider there have a monthly data cap? It seems like many of the service providers I’ve looked up in Oz have limits to how much data you can transfer per month with charges they tack on nicely if you happen to go over without letting you know. Kind of like having a cell phone and going over your allotted minutes. Is this pretty much standard there and if so… why? I’d think a company that set up in Australia that offered unlimited usage for data (and offered great customer service without insane phone rules) could price competition out of the market or force them to start offering unlimited data as well. Being here in the USA, it’s kind of an unheard of concept for home internet use to be limited in that way. Since I use the internet often as a replacement for cable television, Hulu.com for example, I’m definitely curious to find out more.

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