On 02/05/2009, at 11:27 PM, ponti...@iinet.net.au wrote:
As an Apple Macintosh user, there is nothing to recommend the
bigpond internet product from Telstra, relative to iinet &
thus westnet, unless Telstra is the only service provider in your
area. As a mac user, essentially all your internet traffic (both
uploads & downloads) are counted towards your monthly Gigabyte
limit, ie Apple software updates (a bevy of Apple software
updates can exceed the monthly limit of Telstra's cheapest plan -
this being only 600 MB - in one run of Software Update).
Any iTunes product (movie trailers, music purchases or movie
rentals) are counted, as are ABC iView streaming of recent ABC
TV shows. The cited examples are all part of the iinet freezone.
Bigpond's own movie rentals & pay TV offerings, although
not counted as part of the bigpond traffic limit, are not usable on
Apple computers running an Apple OS, because the
products rely on Windows only DRM. If you have an intel mac, you
could purchase Windows and a product like Parallels and
run windows on the intel mac to get access to the bigpond free
content, so you may not be so technically constrained as
Apple PPC users. Therefore, as a fulltime mac user, the 12 GB/25GB
per month products from bigpond, depending upon
your internet tastes, may only be equivalent to a 3/6 GB product
from iinet. On the phone side of things, I am noting that
iinet's VOIP product, with its much cheaper calls, has improved
remarkably in quality - however there can be good reasons
to maintain a more expensive standard POTS service (iinet market
this as Phone1) , than switch to something like iinet's
Naked service which offers only VOIP calls.
Richard
You may also like to check out Internode Naked adsl2 with a node
phone and a node phone number
which as I interpret it can make and receive the same usual phone
calls as your Telstra landline !
Of course I could be wrong !
Bob
Start here :
<http://www.internode.on.net/residential/internet/home_adsl/extreme/>
On Sat May 2 22:59 , Malcolm McCallum <doc...@westnet.com.au> sent:
Suppose it would not hurt .
Mac
On 02/05/2009, at 10:35 PM, Robert Howells wrote:
On 02/05/2009, at 9:42 PM, David Moyle wrote:
Promised you an approximate speed.. :)
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Sent: Saturday, 2 May, 2009 9:39:38 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing /
Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi
Subject: Telstra.
I have just had a very plausible-- and pleasant Indian salesperson
at
my door and he talked me into changing from Westnet who have
given me
exceptional service for some years.
So did you ask westnet to quote on the same package ?
They (Telstra) have promised me
speeds of !7 megs approx and $70 dollars less on my combined
telephone/
Foxtel/internet cost as well as reliable well supported
services. I
told the salesperson I would personally remove his reproductive
organs
if he did not stick to his side of the bargain. :-)
I have a rule not to buy anything at the front door ,
A damn good rule ! I suspect you have been sold by the silver
tongue !
Bob
I hope I do not regret breaking my
rule :-(
Mac
PS I have a 10 day cooling off period.
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