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Kaliber
October 7th, 2001, 01:36
Well - when u design a website for a client and they pay you say $400 USD it works out to be about $800 USD - their is also the flip side when you have to pay hosting fees to an american which sucks sometimes!

Anyway, their is my 2c,
Phuzion
Haze
October 7th, 2001, 02:53
the worst thing about living in Australia:
Telstra's 3 GB monthly cap on there "Unlimited" cable internet plans. :devious2:
Haze
October 7th, 2001, 02:55
Originally posted by Phuzion
Well - when u design a website for a client and they pay you say $400 USD it works out to be about $800 USD - their is also the flip side when you have to pay hosting fees to an american which sucks sometimes!

Anyway, their is my 2c,
Phuzion

Everything in this country costs double anyways, so it don't really matter :P
Coolin
October 7th, 2001, 03:03
Originally posted by evilhaze
the worst thing about living in Australia:
Telstra's 3 GB monthly cap on there "Unlimited" cable internet plans. :devious2: Telstra sucks.

I have friends who are stuck with Telstra and they can't play online games because it sucks up their bandwidth. Some of them have gone back to dial up because the limit is gone.
trenzterra
October 7th, 2001, 03:07
Why did they register for Telstra in the first place? They should ditch the ISP.
Coolin
October 7th, 2001, 03:10
Originally posted by trenzterra
Why did they register for Telstra in the first place? They should ditch the ISP. If Australia is anyway like Canada, a cable company has a monopoly over one area.

And why did they register for Telstra?
a) They didn't have the limit back then.
b) If it is a monopoly, that was probably their only option for high-speed internet.
trenzterra
October 7th, 2001, 03:11
Originally posted by Coolin
If Australia is anyway like Canada, a cable company has a monopoly over one area.

And why did they register for Telstra?
a) They didn't have the limit back then.
b) If it is a monopoly, that was probably their only option for high-speed internet. they could easily go to optus@home or whatever. Optus @home offers cable internet...
LeX
October 7th, 2001, 03:17
they could easily go to optus@home or whatever. Optus @home offers cable internet...I doubt you read Coolin's post.
Coolin
October 7th, 2001, 03:23
Originally posted by LeX
I doubt you read Coolin's post. Exactly! :)
AsianDOC
October 7th, 2001, 03:43
Originally posted by Coolin
Exactly! :)
Hey Coolin. Can I ask you a question. Can you explain your signature? Is it leet speak? It's killing me!
Kaliber
October 7th, 2001, 03:59
Uptus@home is a good no-frills service.
sp0radic
October 7th, 2001, 04:05
Stupid Telstra.

:angry2:

... that's y I don't have "broadband". But if I did, it'd be with Optues. :D
Coolin
October 7th, 2001, 04:07
Originally posted by Asian_DOC
Hey Coolin. Can I ask you a question. Can you explain your signature? Is it leet speak? It's killing me! I cannot say what 4 3 6 F 6 F 6 C 6 9 6 E means or you'll be hexed forever! :eek:
LeX
October 7th, 2001, 04:11
Uh, I have always thought you had kept the binary form of your signature. Yeah, that's it. :o:o
Akalon
October 7th, 2001, 04:32
Optus is better than telstra but my friend downloaded 10gb worth of stuff on optus cable in one day and he got kicked off for 2 weeks. :D
}:8) Supermoo
October 7th, 2001, 04:44
I thought now would be a good time to say I looooooove my Optus Cable modem, a die-hard subscriber for well over a year. :)
trenzterra
October 7th, 2001, 05:29
I'm a die-hard subscriber of Pacific internet

hehe
LastActionHero
October 7th, 2001, 05:48
Optus was recently blacklisted by international ISP's
}:8) Supermoo
October 7th, 2001, 06:02
Although that all happened while I was away from the PC (camping), and seemed to have completley resolved. :)

trenzterra, they're pretty good... I was with them for a few months before I was on Optus. If you really want the net to move a bit faster you should have a look at their ADSL offers (http://www.corporate.pacific.net.au/adsl_offer.html).
Toefur
October 7th, 2001, 07:58
Theres supposedly going to be some new company putting down it's own... er... line thingys (the ones used for cable modem...uh...) sometime next year or so... So I'm gonna wait for them, and hopefully they wont be as ---- as Telstra.

Seriously, what sort of joke is a 3 gig download limit? Pfffft.

Until then, I'm stuck on 56k... which sucks, because Tel$tra charge $20 a month just for PHONE LINE RENTAL.

I can't get over that.

Bloody savages.
Coolin
October 7th, 2001, 13:58
Originally posted by LastActionHero
Optus was recently blacklisted by international ISP's They were?
Why?
Any URLs?

From what I see they seem so much better than Telstra in both speed and limits.
LastActionHero
October 7th, 2001, 14:01
http://australianit.news.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,2951070%5E442,00.html
Coolin
October 7th, 2001, 14:03
Oh, okay.
It deals with spam, not speed or limits or anything.
Now I get it.