Telstra ADSL vs TransACT (was Re: TransACT@CLUG this month)

[David Gibson]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 10:35:05PM +1100, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:45, jeremy at itassist.net.au wrote:
> > You're probably all going to have to sit down for this one - I'm about
> > to defend Telstra!  Maybe.
> >
> > Has anyone actually run into this mysterious 3Gb download cap?  I keep
> > blowing 3Gb and haven't been hassled yet.  Even my frinds who are
> > topping 40Gb a month aren't being penalised.
> >
> > Having said that I'll probably receive a bill tomorrow that bankrupts me
> > or something.
> >
> > So while that spreadsheet is an accurate summary of the advertised
> > prices, Telstra seems to be doing something different in practise.
> 
> Just for the record, I'm not particulary anti-Telstra.  In fact, my current 
> ISP is BigPond (dialup).  If the idea of being able to get a fixed IP address 
> didn't appeal to me I would probably have been using Telstra ADSL for the 
> last 6 months or more.

Ah, now, here's the trick: BigPond Direct or BigPond Home?  They'ver
very different groups and I've heard much, much better things about
the former than the latter.

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