> I must admit (sheepishly) that I have Bigpond Broadband ADSL. > > Yes, it is expensive, but I was able to cancel one of our office phone > lines by having it. As well, by having all plans, ie. mobile, > landline, long distance calls etc. with Telstra, I get 15% off all > bills. So pricing should be considered as a package.
I agree with Greg. The plans help. We have a 'spare' line for fax/eftpod etc which I will bring over to Telstra and even preselect even though rarely/never use for o/seas calls, and doing that brings the bill down a bit, although I still reckon it's expensive and, yes, it was infuriating when they put a cap on and then upped the price. And there's no 'opposition' as such so they have a monopoly. And the heartbeat thing is annoying. But you have to consider things as they are now. The service is *very* fast for me. Seen download speeds (admittedly maybe from Akamai mirrors etc) of 700k/sec, not that many times it has been down (compared to what, though), it has a good ping rate and there is a 10Gb cap which is a lot even for me. But if I didn't have it I would probably go for Westnet seeing so many people agree that it's good. If you *can* get cable you should seriously think about it or at least do the exercise (IMHO). Brett Carboni Tsunami "Now with Mac powered internet ready cable sushi"
