Picking your brains...

[morsla]

mmmm... braaaains...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: recommend a broadband ISP to me :)

We'll be living in North Melbourne, and have a budget of about $60 per month. At the moment (in Carlton) we're on a 512/128 connection, with a 6GB quota (through Netspace, who seem to have nice friendly customer service people). Despite some signs to the contrary‡, I have a fairly minimal knowledge of how these black boxes actually work - so quoting lots of jargon at me might provoke blank looks...

‡: I've been repeatedly misidentified as a computer science student for the last seven years. Why this is, I do not know...

Comments

[lukeii.livejournal.com]

Netspace are pretty good, and you can probably just pay a fee to move the existing plan to the new site. If you have to leave it behind, then I recommend iinet as a possible alternate. At any rate, I would choose either iinet or Netspace.

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

The Netspace plan is Amanda's, so will be staying at Canning street - we'll be getting a new one when we move.

I'll look at those two in a bit more detail...

[lukeii.livejournal.com]

Actually, you could try going to Broadband Choice which has a form you can fill out to compare different ISPs.

[jaquiej.livejournal.com]

We're with optus broadband. $67.15 per month for either 6 or 12GB (can't remember which). Matt's family is with the same company on a much lower download 'limit'*.
They are pretty good on the few occasions that we've had issue, including paying bills. Which I appreciate greatly.

I can find out more details if you would like.


*When I say limit, what I mean is the amount that you're allowed to download before the drop your speed down to dial-up range.

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Currently looking at the Netspace $49 one - I think we have 5GB peak, 5B off-peak, and then it's shaped.

iinet's $60 plan is better than Netspace's $60 one, but iinet doesn't have anything cheaper without dropping to 256/64. I doubt we'll use 10GB in a month, so we don't need to pay for the more expensive iinet plan :)

Still looking, though - thanks for the suggestions.