Posted by dorayme on 06/29/05 06:37
> From: Mark Parnell <webmaster@clarkecomputers.com.au>
>
> Previously in alt.html, dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> said:
>
>> Here in Sydney
>
> Me too! <waves> Hello neighbour!
>
>
Hello!
>> you can get good and reliable dialup for $20 Australian a
>> month, and you can be on all day and generally not be kicked off.
>
> We were paying I think about $15/month for 100 hours. Could have paid a
> bit more for unlimited.
>
>> You can
>> pay less and more with varying results... What is a tempting budget
>> conscious strategy is some ADSL for about $29 with 200 MB download limits
>> and you get slowed down to 56 or even 64 after limit is reached.
>
> Yep, this is what we went for initially, though ours gets slowed down to
> 28k. :-( We changed our minds and are on a 1GB plan now.
I know Optus did this, I have never heard whether it was truly slower than
usual dial up in practice. Can you recall? I saw an ADSL deal of slow down
to 64 which is better than my dialup. Is your 1G plan good? Same slow down
after limit reached?
dorayme
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