On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Maybe for business use, but definitely not for personal use. And even for
> > business use - you'd have to be in the region of downloading 3 or 4 gig a
> > month to get to the point that you start coming out ahead of Telstra's
> > equivalent plan - as much as I hate to say it.
>
> for home use, you'd be mad to get anything other than "unlimited"
> use (ie. no bandwidth limit). And for ADSL it's only telstra
> that I've seen with that.
Yup, you're perfectly correct. If there's another "unlimited" ADSL
providor out there, I'm yet to find it.
> I asked Ihug about their expected ADSL prices (not listed on their
> web site) and they said around $90 pm. Telstra is $78.
> It's all due to telstra's anti-competitive pricing scheme for
> wholesale ADSL of course, so the consumer has a clayton's choice.
P'raps when Optus settles down they'll make something available -
especially with the Southern Cross cable running.
> Personally I reckon optus cable's still the best of the "high
> speed" offerings.
I did too, once upon a time, but I'd rather have a guraanteed 512k than 2
meg which could be shared between up to 20 other people - and true
unlimited downloads, rather than Optus' "10 times the average use" crap.
I was all set to go with Optus cable until they changed the AUP from
unlimited to this averaging junk. But I won't do it now - while I might
not download anything near that, if I'm paying for an "unlimited" service,
I damn well want to have one, not be dependant on what _other_ people do
to affect the average.
DaZZa
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