[Waverley ARS] FW: RE- ISP bandwidth

[Raffy]

 Hi George,

I am on netspace ADSL1 and have been for about the same time as you. 
I have had three occasions in 4 years where the Adsl system went down, and
twice it  was the "downstream" provider's issue (Telstra), and one time
where somebody cut an optical fibre cable.
True, my help desk service is only nine to five seven days a week, but I've
never needed it except when the whole system was down.

I pay $79.95 per month for 60 gb limit, and 1500/256.

They always notify me when they change the pricing, and it's only ever
gotten cheaper or more speed or more download limit (I used to pay $99.95
for 20gb 512/128)

The only problem is that they haven't got adsl2 in my area yet. But they
will in time.

Anyway George, you asked how do you keep your  existing email address? 
Easy, for $US9.95 per annum you can get your own domain, with unlimited
email addresses.

See here: http://www.active-domain.com

You don't even have to tell Telstra about it, or get their permission!

73
Raffy Vk2RF







-----Original Message-----
From: members-bounces at us.cactii.net [mailto:members-bounces at us.cactii.net]
On Behalf Of George Georgevits
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 11:15 PM
To: vk2bv
Subject: [Waverley ARS] FW: RE- ISP bandwidth

Hi Simon,

> Both Optus and Telstra tend to be very expensive even with all the 
> bundling limitations and especially so when they also include
uploads in 
> your bandwidth allowance. I wonder why anyone chooses either of these 
> suppliers except that they are the biggest and most heavily advertised.

I think I can answer this one, being guilty of same. I am with Telstra
cable. My original reasoning was the support they give. 
You can call them at midnight on New Year's eve and someone will take your
call! Having said this, I recently had a problem with my modem (I had to
restart it every ~2 hours to keep it working). 
It took them the two site visits and the better part of 2 weeks to replace
it. It replaced the new Motorola 5100 they forced on me some six months
back, so it was still under warranty. 

SO my question to this learned group is: What is the support like with some
of these cheap offerings? Anyone had any experience? 
Some places only work 9am to 5pm Mon to Fri, which is not a whole lot of use
for an internet service.

When I originally chose Telstra, both Telstra and Optus had cable outside my
front door. So I rang them both. Optus said: "you're the only guy down your
end of the street who wants our service, and we would have to install an amp
on our cable to do that, so the answer is NO! (so much for the organisation
who says YES). I got bad vibes from this experience, but undaunted, I
checked with the guy next door. He was also thinking of signing up for
cable, and seeing he worked for Optus, it would have been great for him
(presumably he would cut a better deal). So now two customers down my end of
the street wanted to sign up, so I rang them back. 
Well, you guessed it, the answer was still NO!!!**. Well, I though if they
were this stupid ... so I gave it a miss. This was some 4-5 years ago, and
things have probably changed. For one thing, my neighbour has quit Optus, he
couldn't stand it anymore.

Also, the second reason I have resisted the urge to change is that everyone
knows my internet address, and I assume changing addresses is like changing
phone numbers - a real hassle? Any advice on how to do this more or less
painlessly?

Cheers,

George Georgevits
VK2KGG
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