On Monday, April 5, 2004, at 01:18 PM, Doug Wilson wrote:
Hi guys,
Thanks for all the great response to my question about Broadband. it
seems to be a 'neck-n-neck" race between IINET and WestNet. I may go
with IINET because it is cheaper and seems to be the same as WestNet
in most other respects.
Thanks again,
Cal
IiNet only seems cheaper. The prices listed on their web pages are all
contingent on choosing their iiPhone product for phone calls. Without
that
it's another $10 a month for all of their plans. Once that's
considered then
the prices are identical for almost all plans. The only exception
being the
Premium 1.5Mb/256 30GB/30GB plan where Westnet beats iiNet by $10.
IiNet's actual prices can be found on the Broadband Choice website at
<http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc-isp.cfm?id=15>.
Westnet's Broadband Choice page is at:
<http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc-isp.cfm?id=24> just in case you want to
compare the two for yourself.
There's one more gotcha with iiNet that's catching some of the heavier
downloaders out that you should know about. Once you exceed your quota
limit
in either peak or off-peak then your connection is shaped in both
periods.
With Westnet it's only shaped for the period that you've exceeded the
transfer limit. If you're not a heavy downloader then this probably
won't
matter. If you are then this is an important distinction
A Lot depends on just how much download you expect to do !!! ???
Arachnet beats both for some amounts of use, equal in others. And
don't forget the free WAIX traffic ! ?
See arach.net here :--
<http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc-isp.cfm?id=23>
Bob
