Bigpond wireless broadband marketing

John

you may want to hold off..

there is an election coming up and you name sake may do anything for a vote...LOL

Sorry ;-)

Richard

Yes and another thing. With wireless you connected full time. So even if you are not browsing, your computer is talking to the tower 1kb every 2 seconds and all that goes towards you monthly Mb total. This what I have been told and I assume it is correct. You must disable your computer from the system if you want to Log Off!!!

In the mean time the wireless installers are now 3 days overdue at my place. I am also waiting for ADSL. Have been activitated but the router is still to arrive. Life seems to be one looooong wait these days...lol

Cheers

On a few of the MSN caravan groups many of the members have gone onto a BigPond plan - 256 kB/s - IG per month for $50. see Site Link

The modem (cost $250) has a 6 V input from a power brick and has 2 antennas on it for diversity operation. If you are using it in a caravan one of these antennas can be replaced with an external antenna.

This seems to be the best priced option at regular prices. I do not know if the half price 6 month offer is available on this.

PeterD

Hi John,

Will be seeing you very soon and will fill you in on all the latest and may even give you a demo!!!

Cheers
Muddy

Ah yes, good old Telstra. If you compare the cost of broadband via NextG and broadband via ADSL, you get a good idea of how much you are being ripped off. OK, the infrastructure costs more, but do they have to get their money back in one year???

In truth, the NextG prices are crap - and they always will be. This is because Telstra has resisted allowing any of their competitors access to the NextG network. End result: no competition. There is some relief in sight, Optus and one other syndicate have announced a rollout of their own networks.

The problem is that these other companies will concentrate on the high volume areas first, which means it will take a long time to reach the bush. For me personally, that is bad news. My wife and I are off on our long planned great Oz adventure and we will need broadband to keep in touch with the kids and to update our website.

You can get a better broadband service in Bali than you can here.

John, not sure how often you access the net, but I can assure you that 1GB is tiny on broadband. I used that in 3 days without downloading huge files, naughty pix etc. I very quickly changed plans to the unlimited bigpond one. It's not cheap, but makes the net far less frustrating and much more user friendly.

C'mon guys ,

weve got to hound the caravan parks to offer free wireless.
unlimited plans are well within their reach - they have nothing to lose from offering free wireless - there sure to gain
caravan parks are our homes, we need an alternative to paying telstra/bogpond overpriced next g, cdma1x and evdo plans. they know there not going to make a dollar out of us in 5 years.

when booking sites, ask if they have free wireless!!
when you see them using laptops or internet in the office - ask them if they've got free wireless.

they will come around eventually

cheers