Best Internet Plan

[HSSB]

Optus have new plans coming out, from the 25th of April, to start 1st of May.

$50 (bundled with homephone, or $10 extra standalone) gets you 70/50 (120gb). $60 is 75/75 (150gb).

So if you are with Optus and want a good deal for once, or are looking to change but want a big name provider, wait for this.

Thats weird because I got offered a 7GB one with my phone, and it starts May 1

 

[Borgsta]

Thats weird because I got offered a 7GB one with my phone, and it starts May 1

They aren't announcing them (read: offering) until April 25th. AFAIK they only offer them to people who are trying to cancel at the moment.

 

[alfy!]

Actually your best bet is to call cancellations on 1300555241 and they will offer it to you now.

But then you don't know the fine print of the offer. Best to wait till April 25.

AFAIK they only offer them to people who are trying to cancel at the moment.

I believe they will offer them even if you aren't canceling.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

ADSL2+ 240GB/month (120 Peak, 120 off-peak) $90 a month unbundled

The exchange is about five minutes from my house too.

 

[Nardz]

ADSL2+ with TPG. 40GB (20GB+20GB) at about $50 a month, and the local exchange is very close to my house.

time to hit the tpg website to update your plan - cause you're about 6 months and 90 gig behind.

 

[Borgsta]

But then you don't know the fine print of the offer. Best to wait till April 25.


I believe they will offer them even if you aren't canceling.

I got offered it with no contract. Only difference is uploads count but when the usage goes up by 50+GB the uploads wont make a dif.

 

[Ron The Bear]

I've been with Optus cable for about ten years. In the last two years the performance in the evening has got bloody awful (400ms+ pings to local sites due to overselling) and there is a full outage every month or six weeks. And they keep offering all these great deals to new subscribers only - how about looking after your existing customers??? I'm paying $72 for 20g/40g.

I've put up with it because ADSL2 wasn't available here, but now I see Tarneit has been upgraded and all the players are offering ADSL2+. Is it worth considering a switch given the hassle involved? I don't want to tell Optus to get stuffed and then find I'm worse off.

Any clues for the clueless one here would be appreciated.

Haven't noticed any line degradation in my area, but then again I don't test the bandwidth.

The thing with that Optus plan is that it doesn't include uploads; most competitors' plans do.

I was on this plan for approx. three years and got an unsolicited call the other week from Optus, asking if I wanted to upgrade to a 50GB/70GB plan while paying only $50 a month. I asked what were the catches and could I have time to consider the deal - answer was no catches and I need to sign up right now to take advantage. Anyway after entering into a verbal contract it was mentioned that uploads would be included in the new plan. I immediately got edgy and after a bit of to-and-fro during which I was given the opportunity to revert to my existing plan, I agreed to upgrade but put them on notice that if I was unhappy, they'd lose an internet, Foxtel and home phone customer. I'm not sure of the percentage increase to usage if you're a regular P2P user and include uploads - maybe someone here can advise?

Anyway if you're happy with the Optus service (I am), you might want to consider calling them to ask for the same deal. I was told it's only available to existing customers. You also get a 12-month subscription to a magazine you can choose from a list, e.g. I chose Top Gear. You need to sign for 12 months, and there's a $70 early termination fee.

 

[Jabso]

time to hit the tpg website to update your plan - cause you're about 6 months and 90 gig behind.

I got the 80 gig (40/40) plan about 1 week before they introduced the 100 gig plan (which is now what....140?).

Either way it doesn't really bother me. Better than 256kb 12 gig for $60 a month with bigpond.

 

[mdc]

Erm, Jabsco...you realise it's free to upgrade at any time?

 

[Spudregus_87]

Live with two other people and we're with a Bigpond Broadband plan.

$150 per month for 100gig ($50 each), which I think is more than reasonable for quick, reliable internet. No on-peak/off-peak crap, can use it whenever we want. Basically means that we could download two movies per day and still be under by 20-30gig each month (I think, lol).

If we somehow managed to hit the 100g (probably could if I tried hard enough), it just slows to ADSL, and we don't pay extra.

Its only been two months and I've sorta realised that I'm the only one really using any of the downloads, so looks like we'll bump it down a notch to a 70gig plan if thats available.

 

[grimlock]

Nope, the next level down is 50gigs and that's only about $20 cheaper from memory.

 

[likka]

ADSL2 120GB plan (60+60) with iiNet for $70... only downloads counted towards quota. Very quick (ie 20MB) and very reliable.

Only hook is it must be bundled with home phone, but as the cost was virtually identical to what we were paying Telstra for line rental and calls it was a no brainer.

 

[Kaan]

Quality: Internode or iiNet
Quota: TPG or iPrimus

 

[Spudregus_87]

Nope, the next level down is 50gigs and that's only about $20 cheaper from memory.

Damn...Might have to stick with what we have then

 

[FIGJAM]

"Internet Plan!"

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

We're switching to this one in a couple of weeks: http://www.exetel.com.au/a_plan_pricing_adsl2_nf.php#toggle1

The $45 rental telephone line from provider one at the bottom... thoughts?

 

[nicko99]

I got offered it with no contract. Only difference is uploads count but when the usage goes up by 50+GB the uploads wont make a dif.

Borgsta or anyone. Ive been with Optus for over 5+ and looking to upgrade to that plan with Optus but the 24 month contract is putting me off will hey offer me the same plan without the contract aswell?

 

[Borgsta]

Borgsta or anyone. Ive been with Optus for over 5+ and looking to upgrade to that plan with Optus but the 24 month contract is putting me off will hey offer me the same plan without the contract aswell?

call cancellations and you will probably be offered it quick smart with no contract.

 

[incubi]

Interesting. I've been on my current plan with Optus for about a year, and they haven't just recently become unreliable for me, they've always been that way. I have wireless broadband with them (bundled with my iphone unfortunately), and I reckon I can get a signal about once in every 4-5 attempts. I end up using bloody dial-up most of the time, and that drops out often also. I live in a metropolitan area, and this happens at home, at my gf's, at uni (in the city)...even sitting in the middle of a park. It is just useless. I called them yesterday and they said to take my sim card and get it replaced, which I will do, but I'm not holding my breath that this will fix it.

Am glad I stumbled across this thread though. Has thrown up some (seemingly better) alternatives.

Can be amazingly effective, i recently got heaps of roaming charges for using my iphone internet (tethered to my laptop), but since replacing my sim i went from about 500mb of roaming to 1mb, my sim was about 2 years old.

 

[Donners]

I'm quite happy with the iPrimus 80GB for $50 plan (which is now of course a higher cap for the same price).

Never come even close to reaching the cap, but it's nice to have it there just for the heck of it.

 

[alfy!]

Borgsta or anyone. Ive been with Optus for over 5+ and looking to upgrade to that plan with Optus but the 24 month contract is putting me off will hey offer me the same plan without the contract aswell?

If you are currently not on a contract, you will continue to not be on one with the new plans. If you are, you just continue with how many months you have left.

 

[RobV]

iiNet Home 5 70+70gb for $70, get 14,000 sync speed which is good.

Always up and get a stable download speed of 1.4mb, so no complaints.

 

[Team Mo']

Rang up optus to find out why my internet was so shit. They said they could upgrade my plan from 12gb on peak + 24gb off peak to 80gb on peak + 80gb off peak for no extra cost. I'm now paying the same price for 130gb extra download!

What would have happened if I didn't ring them up?

 

[sherrin_footy]

Rang up optus to find out why my internet was so shit. They said they could upgrade my plan from 12gb on peak + 24gb off peak to 80gb on peak + 80gb off peak for no extra cost. I'm now paying the same price for 130gb extra download!

What would have happened if I didn't ring them up?

curious, what are you paying for that?
do you have it bundled with anything else?

 

[Fervy]

Here's a question for you geeks out there.

Living in the outer western suburbs of Melb.

Currently with Telstra 25GB for $80 per month (there abouts). Had really shitty problems a week or so ago that saw our net and foxtel go down for the best part of a week. Got given the run around and basically want to get rid of them. Can get better deals elsewhere.

I ran the net check, however, and found that my connection speed is at 9MB/sec.

The two offers that I'm fond of..

AAPT - ADSL2+ with their unlimited plan.
TPG - ADSL2+ with their 200GB (100+100) plan

I don't know what speed the AAPT will get in.

However, looking up the TPG site I find that we sit in the "zone three" positioning. what this means is that the reported maximum download speed is 7MB/second. I would hazard to guess that AAPT would do about the same.

We run four computers off of the network with the occasional X-Box live gaming.

Would the decrease of 2MB/second affect us greatly to the point where going with the better download limit wouldn't be such a good idea OR would it not impact us much at all.

If it helps- we YouTube, Facebook, chat, use web forums and play a few online games (Perfect World, though I'll get back into World of Warcraft and/or Star Trek Online soon enough). With the bigger plan we would download the occasional movie or various other sizeable file.