Hi Bart I have been with e-wire for several years now. They have been fairly good, but the main reason for going with them was that they had the best available service in Ellenbrook at the time.
The one bonus with e-wire's network in Ellenbrook is that we get free-to-air television via the cable, and there are options available for VOiP, and I heard they are also developing an iP-TV service. I have had a few issues with them, and their Mac support can be a bit 'hit and miss'. They managed to drop me off the network for about a month earlier this year when they couldn't deal with the fact that I had put one of the new airport extreme base stations on my network, then couldn't give me the correct instructions for 'network authentication'. I also had some issues with their Mac OS X instructions, when they changed their network authentication from DHCP to PPPoE. Since this change I have also had to reset the cable modem and airport base station on a regular basis. The other issue with E-wire is that they only service specific areas, so you need to be sure that you won't be moving house much! It sounds as though E-wire will be losing the Ellenbrook contract shortly, and I have the distinct feeling that Telstra may be getting the new contract, and marketing in under the banner of 'Telstra Smart Communities'. Unfortunately at present Telstra are the only providers of ADSL2+, and E-wire has the contract for the fibre optic network. I will stay with E-wire for now, but when their contract for the cable network is handed over, I think I will be looking at someone like Westnet or iiNet. Daniel F. On Sunday, September 09, 2007, at 11:12PM, "Bart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all > >Is anyone out there using ewire cable broadband on there macs ,I'm thinking >of changing my ISP to them, and get get rid of house phone to go onto >Telstra prepaid home. > >To save on line rental. > >I only seen some old forums last year and the year before on whirlpool site >on ewire ,back then . > >It didn't sound promising, but I was hopping it has got better by now. > >At the moment I'm with iinet,have been happy with them, until I moved >further south to Baldivis and can only get ADSL 1. > >Thanks > >Bart. > > > >-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
