Broadband - If you want cable, I recommend Optus over Telsta - both have appalling customer service but Optus is marginally less appalling. If you want ADSL, definitely check out whirlpool as Sean suggests - there are a million suppliers. A lot of them do a phone/broadband bundle - TPG have a good one that my neighbour recommends. He gets 60Gb of pretty quick downloads a month for about $50.
Cable TV - you have the choice of Optus or Foxtel but they have the same channels so it really depends on what sort of bundle you get. You might want to bundle it with your mobiles/landlines/cable broadband etc. . Bear in mind that if you are going to live in an apartment, you may have dramas getting it hooked up - depends on the block. Electricity/gas - a couple of different suppliers but they're basically all the same. Ikea is pretty good. Lots of stuff and if you have small children, you can dump them in the supervised playground for an hour while you go shopping without them (bliss!). It's in Rhodes and there's plenty of parking. You can get monitors anywhere. There are lots and lots of little computer shops in Sydney. Check out http://www.adelong.com.au/store/index.php?cPath=38&osCsid=c0f1a4b0e16ed3b9244f695a689bd5d2. They're in the city and generally have reasonable prices. Nice blokes too. Hope this helps. Tom On 12/17/06, Maximilian Nyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi dear group ;) > > This is really WAY off topic and I'm not sure if this appropriate for > this forum. > If it's not, please feel free to ignore it, or to tell me off > > Anyway, here we go... ;) > > I'm moving to Sydney (from Wellington) with my family first week of > January and have a few questions. > > Who's the best services providers for: > (Doesn't necessarily have to be the cheapest, even thought that would > be nice too) > - Broadband > - Phone (land line and mobile) > - TV/Cable > - Electricity/Gas > > > Also, we'll need stuff to fill our new home once we found one. So > where's the best place for that? I know you guys have IKEA and I'm > thrilled about that (since I'm from Sweden), but where else? EBay? > And if anyone knows anyone who like to sell stuff, I will probably > want to buy it ;) > We might end up renting a furnished apartment, so I'm not sure how > much furniture we going to need. > But one thing that we'll definitely need a few monitors (two for me > and one for my wife). > And then there is all the other everyday stuff that one needs to setup > a new home. > > > I'm sorry to intrude on this group like this,but thank you for your time. > > Best regards, > Max > > > > -- IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humor or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorized (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social fauxpas. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the mutt next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
