Yep - I advised everyone I know to switch a little while ago, and they've been going over one by one - most of them were paying more than that for crappy Optus or BigPond internet, anyway - and it's paying off. The only one who hasn't is Robert, but he's got a good excuse - He works for a Satellite ISP in the Valley, and gets a pretty beasty connection for free - but if that changes, he knows to whom he is going.
Yep - I advised everyone I know to switch a little while ago, and they've been going over one by one - most of them were paying more than that for crappy Optus or BigPond internet, anyway - and it's paying off. The only one who hasn't is Robert, but he's got a good excuse - He works for a Satellite ISP in the Valley, and gets a pretty beasty connection for free - but if that changes, he knows to whom he is going.
I've often told my friends to do the same. What plan are you on?
I don't think I've ever laughed harder when playing a computer game. Please play it and tell me if that makes sense or if I've just gone slightly crazy (which would also make sense, It's something of a coping mechanism of mine). It might help if you listen to something like this while you play it:
I've often told my friends to do the same. What plan are you on?
I'd have to ask - I don't handle the bills, I just put cash toward them, and I'm the only one in the house at the moment.
Fair enough. Looking here, it amazes me that TPG can offer 500GB at $60 and unlimited at $75, although that's only at certain exchanges (not mine). I'm guessing TPG is gradually rolling out some nice high-bandwidth cabling, and they're probably begun with central Sydney.
My family is still paying for TPG while away from Australia, but I put us down to the $30 plan; the idea was that we wouldn't have to terminate and re-start the contract and pay set-up fees, etc.
When TPG's plans weren't quite as good, I used to exploit their plan-changing system to get more quota; I found a while ago on that if you change plan mid-month, you're refunded for the unused time rather than the unused quota, which meant I could continuously alternate plans to get effectively unlimited quota at an intermediate price. At some point, they introduced a $90 fee for downgrading more than once in 6 months, but my solution was to start at the lowest plan and upgrade every time the quota ran out, then downgrade again 6 months later.
Their plans could well be good enough now that I won't need to use such an approach, but I'm wondering whether it would be better to go for 70+60 for $50 with uploads unmetered, or 90+90 for $50 with uploads metered when I get back to Australia. The way I figure it, I want to seed any torrents I use properly, and so it might be better to go for the unmetered upload plan. However, I could also leave seeding torrents until later in the month, for example if I go over my offpeak quota, because the shaped upload speed is the same as the non-shaped speed, which would make the plan with metered uploads more attractive.
Now that I think about it, I wonder if changing from one of those to the other counts as a downgrade? ^_~
Someone SO needs to produce these. Also: Given the people they've done so far, more than a few of which I had the reaction of "Who?", they really need to get some more well-known geek-types in there.
Someone SO needs to produce these. Also: Given the people they've done so far, more than a few of which I had the reaction of "Who?", they really need to get some more well-known geek-types in there.
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This kind of thing also happened to me in Istanbul, but it didn't last quite this long.
My family is still paying for TPG while away from Australia, but I put us down to the $30 plan; the idea was that we wouldn't have to terminate and re-start the contract and pay set-up fees, etc.
When TPG's plans weren't quite as good, I used to exploit their plan-changing system to get more quota; I found a while ago on that if you change plan mid-month, you're refunded for the unused time rather than the unused quota, which meant I could continuously alternate plans to get effectively unlimited quota at an intermediate price. At some point, they introduced a $90 fee for downgrading more than once in 6 months, but my solution was to start at the lowest plan and upgrade every time the quota ran out, then downgrade again 6 months later.
Their plans could well be good enough now that I won't need to use such an approach, but I'm wondering whether it would be better to go for 70+60 for $50 with uploads unmetered, or 90+90 for $50 with uploads metered when I get back to Australia. The way I figure it, I want to seed any torrents I use properly, and so it might be better to go for the unmetered upload plan. However, I could also leave seeding torrents until later in the month, for example if I go over my offpeak quota, because the shaped upload speed is the same as the non-shaped speed, which would make the plan with metered uploads more attractive.
Now that I think about it, I wonder if changing from one of those to the other counts as a downgrade? ^_~
Who knew that hiding pederasts could be such a fun game?
And for the much more immature. Read at your own risk though.
Someone SO needs to produce these. Also: Given the people they've done so far, more than a few of which I had the reaction of "Who?", they really need to get some more well-known geek-types in there.
Paloma Faith- New York
Well, he got better. He's been released, and he's now posting about his coming home, and eating steak, and his backyard.