Who Has ASDL

[Guest INASNT]

any1 using asdl around the melbourne area?

I am thinking of pissing off my craptus 3gig cable for asdl.

But i want a another fast connection with a bigger limit coz 3gig is fark all for the stuff i do.

If u got asdl, what plan have u got, what setup fees were there and what modem and speeds do u get?

[predator]

I have netspace... and it works well for me with no reliability problems.

512kbps/128kbps - 7gig peak+7 gig offpeak (downloads only). That plan is $100/month.

If you want the 6gig flat (still just counts downloads) $70/month, plus $99 connection charge

[Leon.T]

good place 2 check out some good deals on wat ADSL u want

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/

http://www.broadbandchoice.com.au/isp-list.cfm?loc=1

[Guest INASNT]

Originally posted by predator666

I have netspace... and it works well for me with no reliability problems.  

512kbps/128kbps - 7gig peak+7 gig offpeak (downloads only). That plan is $100/month.  

If you want the 6gig flat (still just counts downloads) $70/month, plus $99 connection charge

so the $70 per month plan is still at 512kbps? whats the fastest u have been able to download at? also did u buy your own modem or did it come with the package?

[RUX]

Just switched over from Optus 3gig as well - went over to Internode 1.5 Mbit flat rate unlimited plan. Its $150 a month but we are splitting it 3 ways.

We can get around 130 k/sec on a good connection.

[predator]

i had my own modem from when ADSL first became available in the country... its a speedtouch home. I've been on Telstra and netspace, and i'd never ever go back to Telstra.

Yes, the $70 plan is still 512kbps... $239 for 12month contract covers the connection+USB modem....or $50 if you buy a modem separately.

Anyway mate, full details here: http://home.netspace.net.au/adsl/plans.php

Fastest i guess is 55k/sec.. Depends where or what i am downloading from...but gues i get above 40k/sec most times.

[Guest INASNT]

55k is preety slow, what about from aus site, and when u retrieve your email cant u get around 300k/sec?

[Assassin]

gordon...is that faster than bigpond?

cause if it is...i might change.

[predator]

denham: you're an engineer.. do the maths! you're not going to get above 55k/sec .. 512kbps = 64,000k/sec + all associated packet overheads = about 56-58k/sec MAX in an ideal world. If you want faster, pay more for a 1.5mbps plan. Email you'll get faster than that because its text and it compresses it (except for movie and zip files, etc).

andy: its not heaps faster, just more reliable and you get more value for money to what Telstra offers. I'd definitely change to another provider if you have the chance. Telstra doesn't deserve any business due to their business practices IMHO. They've outsourced a lot of their IT, call centres and things overseas these days.. and prolly accounting soon

I've been both on TElstra ADSL, and Telstra Cable... and the best so far has been my current Netspace connection (which i've had for 12 months)

[R31Nismoid]

So ADSL then ???

I'm going to finally get net at home in the next 2 months... so i need to know.

$239 connection fee? i Spose it's worth it ??

I'm thinking of the base 512 plan looking at that.

As if i'm gonna D/L 6 gb!!!

I don't do movies, just need good speed.

Gord... When it has 512/128 is that peak/off peak ? (even if you choose the flat 512 plan)

sorry for all the questions. I've got no ideas but i must have a fast connection.

[predator]

I reckon ADSL is the go. Cable they've stopped rolling out to areas, and doesn't offer anything that ADSL does.

There are cheaper plans and speeds than that if you want them. Netspace has the entry level 256kbps plan with 1gig for $50/month. You might be suprised how quickly you do once you get used to it though. Recently i've been downloading the animatrix clips - they have been 150meg each.

Sounds like i'm working for netspace now (maybe i should ) - but peak is 7am to 12am monday to friday.. weekends and other times is offpeak.

There are plenty of other providers that people also use ...even i-PumpAss or something (hehe). Like Leon.T was saying www.whirlpool.com.au has lots of information.

p.s. you can write parts of it off if you use it for business use too.

[R31Nismoid]

mmm... i'll talk at lenght with ya later tonight.

But i think i'll need more than 1gb per month ??

[Guest INASNT]

i used to do 30gig a month before optus brought out all its limits!!

its quite easy when u r at home bored with nothing else to do.

[R31Nismoid]

i've got better things to do than download porn...

[benm]

I've been using Internode 512/128k (54k/s download, 13k/s upload) for 1 year now and its fantastic, wouldnt switch to anyone for anything.

No point with cable anymore unless your cable provider has unmetered goodies.

A typical page will fully load before my 512k connection even gets a chance to max out the connection (unless its got lots of images). Most pages only get up to around 30k/s by the time they are completely loaded so having a ~8mbit cable connection is kinda wasting things alittle (for general use).

Originally I was on the 4.5gb plan, a month later that was upgraded to the 8gb plan and about 4mths ago they released the new FlatRate plans (miles better then any "unlimited" plan).

1 thing no 1 has mentioned are the contention ratios.

General Dialup = 10:1 (10 user accounts per 1 user account of bandwidth).

Comindico Resellers = 30:1

Datafast = 30:1

Internode FlatRate = 8:1

So obviously the lower the contention ratio the higher chance you have of getting full speed 24/7.

Another thing you may want to look at are the additional services offered. Things like unmetered games servers, unmetered download mirrors, etc etc.

Still though my professional decision would be the 512/128k FlatRate plan for $99.95/mth.

[Guest INASNT]

Originally posted by R31Nismoid

i've got better things to do than download porn...

2 much stuff on mirc to download, and only half of it was porn

[Raza]

its funny .

ive been with captus as u call it for a few years nows

and for some good reason i can still go over10 gig and im not even close to red line.

could be because mycomputer had prob's when they tryed to network them.

and i still get my share of over 600K a sec downloads

[Guest INASNT]

Originally posted by Raza

its funny .

ive been with captus as u call it for a few years nows  

and for some good reason i can still go over10 gig and im not even close to red line.

could be because mycomputer had prob's when they tryed to network them.

and i still get my share of over 600K a sec downloads

die bitch die

[Horus]

get big blue adsl!!!!!!

[chopobo]

lol i remember optus

i still got screenies of me downloading at 1000kb/sec

but now back on dial up

cos im not paying for internet with caps!

what about tpg, they have unlimited broadband for onli 70 bucks i heard

but i think its a 256k connectoin