Internet on my laptop

Most libraries will not let you connect your laptop to their internet system. However an increasing number of commercial internet cafes will - you pay the same fees as if you were using their machines.

PeterD

yes you are correct....my mistake. I was just thinking of plain internet access without a laptop.

Andrew

How come Dusty nows so much about this stuff ?
Willie

knows !

Willie
Because he has a good teacher

Too quick for me Willie, you corrected yourself before I could get a Snyde Gybe in.......

Can we get a bit more information on the "$8 a month data bizzo from Telstra" - please ?

Using the (blue) Bigpond Wireless Modem the monthly charge for 200mb is:

G Fast 200MB 200 MB - $39.95 /month on plan

G Fast 200MB - Mobile 200 MB - $54.95 /month on plan

The Wireless 'Card' uses exactly the same Bigpond nextG system as the wireless 'modem' but costs more money with no added benefits at all, except the benefit of 'mobility' - if you want to use the computer away from an external 240v power source.

To get 200mb for only $8 a month, sign me up, I need more information.

I have just returned my (blue) Bigpond wireless modem as it only works where there is Mobile phone coverage anyway and most of the time I'm not getting any phone coverage, and still paying the "Bigpond Plan" price without having the opportunity to use the computer or the phone is unrealistic in my opinion.

The up-load and down-load speads are exactly the same with both the internal and external Bigpond nextG wireless modems.

I'm also interested too.

Also I would like to know how doug setup is , more info there too please.

I have just changed my CDMA Telstra phone plan over to Telstra Next G on a new RAZR (very pretty). It is on a $30,00 plan and I pay an extra $8.00 for 3MB (yes Three) data downloads per month. One e-mail with a couple of full size pictures attached, as some people do, is enough to blow the budget!

Kingo

Hi Kingsley, 3Mbs isn't a lot,

DOUGY how does your system work???

Mr Fawlty replied: "get yourself one of them small generators and a wireless modem thing"

--> Mr Fawlty, is your system running via a 'blue Telstra 240v wireless modem' ???


Mr Fawlty replied: "...I use my LG next G phone with an $8 a month data bizzo from Telstra. Mine came with the USB cord and software etc and for my $8 a month I get 200mb which I find enough to send email, do banking and billpaying and a bit of surfing....."

--> Mr Fawlty what's the name of the telstra 200mb, $8 per month plan your on ?

After checking up mine is a "data pack" that comes with my phone lg tuc 500. Not sure that it is available over the counter so to speak but Telstra should be able to supply you a "data pack" for any compatible phone.

Mr. Fawlty, your information appears to be 'faulty' as there definitely is no Telstra $8 x 200mb "data pack" as you've stated.

Telstra have a $8 "data pack" but it's only .. 3mb
They also have $16 "data pack" and it's only .. 10mb
They also have $29 "data pack" which is only .. 70mb

Your post above states-> "I actually found that for my requirements that I use my LG next G phone with an $8 a month data bizzo from Telstra. Mine came with the USB cord and software etc and for my $8 a month I get 200mb which I find enough to send email, do banking and billpaying and a bit of surfing"

As I've asked before, I now ask you again, please tell where the $8 x 200mb "datapack" is available as I think many people will go out and sign up for them today - I know I definitely will....

Yesterday I went to 2 x Telstra Shops, not franchises, and both have given me brochures showing the relevant information I've posted is accurate and correct.
I don't want to pay Telstra $53 for 200mb when you say I only have to pay $8 for 200mb.

Hi Mainey, I've just come back from the Telstra shop and I asked about that same Q and there was a promotion a while back which only went for 2 months, after that it's only $ 8 for 3MB

Umm, thought 3mb was way too small to "send email, do banking and billpaying and a bit of surfing" so when the promotion ends (ended ??) do you still have to spend the $50+ monthly for a 200mb plan ??

It's ok folks, I'm practising to be a politician - and say everything twice, everything twice.

To be sure, to be sure!

Well Mr Fawlty, you better learn how to lie,
once you have mastered that, you can then call yourself a pollie. LOL

Hey joc45, checked out your photos see you have been to Pt Culver, we went there March this year from Israelite Bay to Pt Culver beach was covered in seaweed unassessable so we had to take bush track, were your photos taken recently as we are planning another trip there in sept?Also we went from Culver over Wylie scarp to Eyre Highway came out near Balladonia about 60kms eastern side, Did you do any fishing at Culver?

cheers MIke

Hi Mike,
That pic was taken about 1999 when I had the old Mav. Done the run about 3 times, and can tell you that it changes a lot. On that trip with the Mav, it was early October, and the beach was extremely soft from Pt Culver right around to about Wattle Camp. Then it firmed up as we headed further SW, but we got into seaweed. Then OziExplorer picked up a track behind the dunes, and we made our way to that.
An earlier trip in the mid-90's had us cruising at 90km/h for most of the 80km beach. A trip in 2001 was similar. There is always seawead for the first 20 or so km at the western end, but that can be skirted by taking the track behind the dunes as far as one can.
Am interested how the inland (telegraph track) went. Have traced it on Google Earth, and will certainly have a go next time out, tho some people reckon the track disappears. In particular, I want to check out Wattle Camp, which was supposed to have been a line maintenance depot back in the 1800's.
Re Wylie Scarp, we've always camped at that spot amongst the banksias half-way up the slope. The track at the top heads to the highway, and also continues east on the telegraph line, which is quite driveable right thru to south-of-Caiguna. Lots of little historic thingys if one looks.
Re fishing, the main thing caught out there is salmon, of which I'm not a fan. I reckon that if you gave it to your neighbours, they would never speak to you again! I understand that beach fishing out towards Culver is good, and at the bottom of Toolinna Cove, but access to that has been closed off by Calm in recent years.
Off to Kalbarri and points north today. Goodbye rain!
Gerry

Hi Gerry,
have all the trip information from Israelite to Culver , telegraph track was interseting , heading north Monday myself,
cheers MIke

Hi Mike,
drop me a line on your return
gezza90 at amnet dot net dot a u
Have a great trip
Gerry

some info on the region
http://forums.overlander.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=28875

You need a NextG post-paid phone for which you buy a "data pack" - not something that goes on your back either... just a glorified way of accessing your hip pocket.