TransACT ISP comparison (long)

[Alfred]

 From my experience, simply surfing to slashdot daily, checking email 
and doing some ssh work you chew through about 1Gb a month. If you start 
downloading ISO images that quickly goes up.

I would start with a larger plan (2 Gb say?) and scale it back once you 
know your usage under high bandwidth conditions :)

Bill Clarke wrote:
> i've recently got TransACT installed, and so now i'm going through the
> process of comparing the ISPs (via their web-pages and telephone people,
> and all interpretations by me, so take it all with a grain of salt).
> 
> There are currently 4 ISPs:
> Apex	 www.apex.net.au     62472000
> Galaxy	 www.galaxy.net.au   62393169
> Netspeed www.netspeed.com.au 62828282
> Webone	 www.webone.com.au   62420605
> 
> Prices are all fairly similar up to the 800MB/month mark (all I've
> looked at, and rounded to the nearest dollar):
> 
> MB/month ISP	  $/month $/year cents/MB (MB/(c/month))
> 100	 Webone	  15	  162    15
> 150	 Apex	  20	  200    13
> 	 Netspeed 20	  200    13
> 250	 Galaxy	  22	  ?	 8.8
> 300	 Apex	  25	  250    8.3
> 350	 Netspeed 27	  270    7.7
> 	 Webone	  25	  270    7.1
> 500	 Galaxy	  30	  ?	 6
> 800	 Apex	  39	  390    4.9
> 	 Galaxy	  39	  ?	 4.9
> 	 Netspeed 39	  390    4.9
> 	 Webone	  39	  421    4.9
> 
> all ISPs charge 20cents per extra MB over the limit (except Galaxy for
> the 800MB/month plan which is 16c/MB).
> 
> $20 connection (except Netspeed which is $22, and Galaxy may be waiving
> the connection fee for a short time)
> 
> Webone also have an option of 6-monthly payment, but i haven't included
> it here because it confuses the issue.  Galaxy don't list any yearly
> prices.
>