HI,
I have just moved to a telstra only exchange =[
what i am chasing is a internet bundle that has unlimited local calls and around 100gb download limit.
all i can really find is telstra, but their 100 bucks a month is a bit steep.
anyone know anything?
cheers
edit: i am on the baldivis wa exchange, which is classed as regional. im a bit peeved, as my bro in law has fibre, and he lives on the street behind me.
A telstra only exchange?? Never heard of something like that, what's your exchange? Have you tried plugging in your number on TPG if you can get the service?
There's heaps of them.. Especially Rural
TPG just resell Telstra. Most exchanges are Optus and Telstra only, some city exchanges have some other DSLAMs in them and some don't even have Optus hardware.
I know TPG resells telstra, but didn't think they would mandate only telstra connections, thought it would be anti-competition or whatever it is.
I think you are misunderstanding the question being asked.
Explain.
High i use spintel as well and have a telstra exchange, and use voip, yes I pay about $80 a month, but i do not think it is not unlimited, interested in knowing what you find.
I know it's getting late now but… Spin were always excellent for me, I'm with Exetel now who have also been very good. Netscape were very poor.
Netscape is a dead browser. :) I think you mean Netspace, which is part of iiNet now and works fine for me. Nothing to do with the OP's question though.
Hmm.
I respond to the question with the wrong answer which also involves an irrelevant product that's decades out of date.
Showing my age there in more ways than one. :/
Have you considered seeing if you can 'share' your brother-in-law's connection if he's not that far away? Set up a router on your side as a client and connect to his wifi, then have this router repeat his signal for your equipment? You'd probably need a decent antenna adding in place of the stock one and also try to get line if sight between your router and his (maybe get him a new router just for this too) but it's not hard. I've got mates that do this over in Spain between their properties (same situation as you - one guy can get ADSL, one guy can't). You'd need to make sure your router can act as a client (not normally possible in standard firmware but if you put something like DDWRT on them they can). Investing in a couple of routers and new antennas would pay for themselves after a couple of months. As for your phone calls, you could use VOIP.
Google would have all the info you need.
I can only get Telstra as well and i found Spintel to be quite competitive. $80/Month untimed local and national and unlimited internet. Or $70/Month if you don't need national calls.
http://www.spin.net.au/products/broadband
Also they have a refer a friend program where we could get a few $$ each..that is if you decide to go with them.