Best Internet Home Phone Provider

[offtheball]

Just received my last bill from Telstra for internet, mobile and home phone. Sick of the rip off.

Anyone researched and found the ideal provider?

 

[douges]

The ideal provider would be different for different people as it depends on how you use your home phone. There is plenty of research and discussion on whirlpool if you care to read it: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/

If you have broadband internet already, check with your ISP and ask if:
a) they provide VoIP service
b) your exchange is capable of Naked DSL. This will let you get rid of Telstra forever for home phone service. Alternatively go here: https://secure.internode.on.net/webtools/internode-dsl-finder and see what your exchange is capable of providing.

I have Internode as my ISP and I'm pretty happy with their broadband service. I know they offer both a home 'landline' service and VoIP. If I could get naked DSL I'd be waving good bye to Telstra.

Good luck.

 

[adz]

I'll be looking at switching to TPG when my Droptus contract is up.
They have a 200 GB naked dsl plan that should just about do it
Not sure about landline/mobile though.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Have a close look at the TPG plan though Adz.

They have peak and off peak limits. Depending on when most of your useage is, it might not be that flash.

 

[FFC Mariner]

No naked DSL via Narara exchange though

 

[adz]

Yup it's 100 on + 100 off peak ... off-peak is 3.30 - 8.30 am which is kinda weird hours, but you can generally line things up to download in off-peak if needed. I'm currently on 60 GB droptus plan which is 20 on + 40 off peak, so should be pretty comfortable with 100gb on peak . Plus Droptus shapes you to dialup speed where TPG shapes to 2 MBPS, so that's faster than ADSL1 ;D

... but as you said it would come down to the exchange too - not so worried about it being naked dsl but it needs adsl2+

 

[FFC Mariner]

Narara doesnt even do ADSL2+

C'mon Rudd you tossbag, wheres my NBN?

 

[dibo]

Narara doesnt even do ADSL2+

C'mon Rudd you tossbag, wheres my NBN?

The market has failed to provide so they're doing it the socialist way. It's taking some more time to plan and costing more etc. because the private sector failure was greater than expected. Nevertheless, it was never going to go from election policy in November 2007 to fully delivered in March 2010 even if they wheeled out the backhoes in the first week of December 2007.

 

[FFC Mariner]

f**k the people in the bush, they choose to live in a desert (and vote Nationals anyway so who cares about them).

Surely bunging up a satellite (or renting one) would ultimately be cheaper than cable anyway.

 

[dibo]

f**k the people in the bush, they choose to live in a desert (and vote Nationals anyway so who cares about them).

If I said f**k the people in the urban fringes... *whistles*

A widely distributed population creates infrastructure problems. Internet infrastructure is a big one, but it's one of many. The market has clearly failed here and it's taking an eternity to fix it up. Keating is to blame in the first instance for f**king up the original marketisation of communications, but Howard's sale of Telstra holus bolus rather than undertaking structural separation from the start entrenched the problems.

The reason why fibre optic is a good idea is that the physical infrastructure need not be changed as the technologies at the node improve. This isn't true of the various wireless technologies, and even these need fibre optic links between the nodes anyway.

 

[offtheball]

Thanks for the responses so far. I'm serviced by Narara unfortunately.

 

[Jimmy]

I can only get ADSL2+ with Telstra and I'm definitely not going with them.
Will just have to wait for TPG or exetel.

http://www.exetel.com.au/res_main.php
It seems that exetels' prices have gone up a little since last time I checked.
http://www.tpg.com.au/

 

[Bex]

Yeh, no naked DSL or ADSL2+ at Mardi either. 

 

[FFC Mariner]

Do you have running water at Mardi

 

[Bex]

Yeh, when Wyong River floods

 

[offtheball]

So can I fine tune,  anyone else in the Narara or Mardi exchange, found any reasonable service providers, or ones to avoid , other than Telstra.

 

[Jimmy]

iinet, I've been with them for too long.

 

[dibo]

My folks are with iinet.

 

[Jimmy]

My folks are with iinet.

They're stable, but they're a rip off, we used to be with ozemail, but they were eventually bought out by iinet.

 

[Jimmy]

http://www.iinet.net.au/products/internet.html

http://www.iinet.com/home/dsl.php

Different companies?