Hi all,
Long story short I've grown up without broadband or any form of internet at home. NBN will be installed in a month or so, so I'm searching for a budget NBN plan that I can convince my parents to get. Currently we pay ~$120 per quarter for home phone line rental from Telstra, so I'm researching NBN & Home Phone plans $40-50 per month. I'm looking for:
- Reliable internet
- Physical landline preferred over VOIP (in case of power outage)
- 10+ GB per month is enough
- Normal speeds (e.g. 12/1) are fine, no streaming/torrenting
- Capped speeds rather than excess charges (e.g. $X per additional GB) definitely preferred
Plans I've looked at already:
Optus 24 months: $60 per month Unlimited
I've chatted to reps they said they only offer mobile phone bundle discounts with home broadband, not NBN plans. So, a bit pricey.
TPG 18 months: $30 per month 10GB / $50 per month 100GB / $60 per month Unlimited
While the lower tier plans are cheap, I've heard bad things about TPG reliability and it doesn't look like it covers a physical landline, just "digital voice service".
Dodo 24 months: $30 per month 10GB / $40 per month 50GB / $60 per month Unlimited
However, you only get to rent the modem (lol) and there are excess usage charges $2 per GB.
Spintel 12/24 months: $40 per month 40 GB / $50 per month 500GB / $55 per month 1000GB (says unlimited in the critical information summary)
Honestly never heard of this company before. Excess charges of $1 per GB ($40 plan) and $0.10 per GB ($50 plan).
If you have any thoughts on the plans I've listed or have a better suggestion please help a guy out! I'm getting quite sick of pre-downloading lectures at uni to watch at home haha
That's very little data. Hope you don't plan on watching YouTube or any sort of video with it with so low data.