Amos Shapira wrote:
2010/1/21 Ben Donohue <[email protected]>:
From memory you can get them in two general packages... time online or
monthly download.
you really have to watch the downloads of these...
Thanks for the warning but unless Telstra completely redefined the
meaning of "pre-paid" I shouldn't be concerned about over-charges - as
soon as I run out of credit the connection should drop, end of story.
Or should I?
The modem is meant to be rotated between people on call which might
need it to get away from their home computer while on duty.
Luckily all our ops guys have Ubuntu on their laptops so it limits the
search for support.
<snip>
The virgin (post-paid) deal is not a
drop dead but a shaped response (ie slow
down of bandwidth) once you meet your
monthly limit (5G, which I haven't yet). I
have heard horror stories from people on
post-paid - not to mention living a
life of fear.
The worst one was Telstra, where I think
the download limit was met once you
viewed the Telstra homepage a couple of
times....and that was the default
homepage for their browser.
With regard to the pre-paid you still
get stung as you are paying a premium
rate for what you do download....though
this looks like a reasonable deal...for the
infrequent user...
BTW the 3 prepaid is a very good deal - $149 for 12GB and 12 months to use it. If you don't use it in 12 months, you can rollover the balance. I'm mobile between the CBD, western suburbs, south western suburbs and southern suburbs and the coverage is pretty good. Also the network is not as congested as, say, Optus which can be unusable during normal online time.
but maybe the 12GB will be gone in 3 months
and you are really looking at $600 a year
compared to 12x40=$480/year capped shaped
from Virgin (and I think Optus directly
now also).
Marghanita
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