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Post by singingcirclesaway on Jan 16, 2005 21:23:30 GMT 10
I think that means both. Who's your ISP?
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Post by somethingforkaty on Jan 18, 2005 13:24:37 GMT 10
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Post by singingcirclesaway on Jan 18, 2005 13:31:23 GMT 10
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Post by singingcirclesaway on Jan 18, 2005 13:34:52 GMT 10
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Post by fathershark on Jan 18, 2005 14:00:52 GMT 10
My missus and I are moving out of our current living arrangement into our own ACT residence shortly - so I am in the market for an ADSL ISP again.
Can anyone suggest an ISP with a $0 connection cost (as I have my own ADSL modem), 256 or 512 speed and a decent download allowance? I don't really wanna spend more than $50 a month either, being a student and all.
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Post by singingcirclesaway on Jan 18, 2005 14:21:05 GMT 10
Use the whirlpool search thinger.
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Post by fathershark on Jan 18, 2005 15:07:19 GMT 10
I can't search for the $0 connection/entry fee thing - so I was hoping someone knew off the top of their head or had a similar plan.
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Post by somethingforkaty on Jan 18, 2005 18:03:10 GMT 10
Upload/download is 50gb, so yeah, yours must be 2gb up/download Katy. :/  |
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Post by unhooked on Jan 18, 2005 18:27:43 GMT 10
I can't search for the $0 connection/entry fee thing - so I was hoping someone knew off the top of their head or had a similar plan. don't know if this helps but there was an ad just on the telly for dodo broadband with no connection fee for $25/month... |
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Post by Catfish on Jan 18, 2005 21:27:14 GMT 10
And in case people didn't know, if you can get cable in your area, it is miles better than DSL. Miles faster anyway. We normally download stuff at 200k/sec from non-bigpond sources. We got 100 gb downloaded last month and they didnt cut our speed down or anything  |
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Post by timbaxterml on Jan 19, 2005 18:30:36 GMT 10
And in case people didn't know, if you can get cable in your area, it is miles better than DSL. Miles faster anyway. We normally download stuff at 200k/sec from non-bigpond sources. We got 100 gb downloaded last month and they didnt cut our speed down or anything In theory, ADSL is much faster than cable. The only difference is that most (all?) ISPs cap ADSL speed. |
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Post by Sonic Death Monkey on Jan 19, 2005 18:59:19 GMT 10
I think there are different types of adsl, the most common one can only go to 1500 i think. The other types of adsl can go a lot faster though. In a few years we may see broadband being provided through pwer lines which would be cool as it would finally be some competition to Telstra.
We've had cable for about 6 months now and its been reasonably good most of the time. For just $60 a month its a pretty decent deal especially being unlimited*. With Telstra you only get 10gb uncapped and then any time after that they can cap you to 64kb. Most months i've gotten away with 35-50gb and not been capped, but one month i went over and i got capped and it was fucking excruciating. Because the 64kb cap is only a max, you don't neccessarily get that speed. For at least half the month i couldn't get emails cos it was too slow and browsing the net was far slower than regular dialup.
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Post by z on Jan 21, 2005 2:41:47 GMT 10
yesterday I was online for only 2 hours (not playing any online games) and it says I used 25MB! if you were browsing for 2 hours that seems pretty normal otherwise, maybe windows update / automatic updates are using it edit: if you are paranoid maybe trial a program like netlimiter, which can tell you the upload/download on a per program basis |
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Post by somethingforkaty on Jan 21, 2005 16:52:38 GMT 10
Well if it's normal that's ok, just catfish or someone said that online gaming should only use a certain amount that was a lot less. For instance, I played the other night and it was only for 2 hours maximum and it says I used 126MB  That really sucks. I'm pretty sure I only went to one server, and didn't change levels throughout that time so nothing additional needed to load. I'm not being paranoid. If I'm using the time legitimately then fair enough, but if I stupidly have something running which is chewing up bandwidth then I want to find out what it is because it is wasting HEAPS. I've just started the new month and I've already used 450MB and I only get 2000MB a month ...  |
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Post by z on Jan 22, 2005 0:03:34 GMT 10
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