Jumping ISP Ships
Bit of a slow day today, so I thought I would post my intentions to jump ships from my current ISP, iiNet.
Tomorrow Internode will be releasing their new batch of ADSL plans where you can get a 1500k / 256k connection with 20GB of downloads for $59.95 (HOME-1500-Power20). Compare this with iiNet current plans where the same money gets you a mere 512k / 128k connection with only 5GB of downloads a month
The plan I currently have with iiNet is actually the same configuration I had when I first signed up with them about 4 years ago. I have a 512k / 128k connection with a 12GB + 12GB (on-peak / off-peak) download limit per month. I pay $70 for this currently so a cheaper plan with faster downloads will be awesome.
Internode is the most used ISP by members of Whirlpool so I'm pretty confident I won't have any issues with them. For reference I never had an issue with iiNet. It's just disappointing they seem incapable of providing competitive ADSL plans these days. I believe the quantity of their plans took a sharp decline when Telstra's wholesale prices went up, but I don't understand how come so many other ISP's are still able to keep their plans so generous.
And for those people who don't know, please, please, please don't ever sign up with Telstra Bigpond. I've spoken to two people today who have been stung by the fact that Telstra still counts both your downloads and uploads towards your monthly 'usage'. Once of them was charged for excess use.
UPDATE: Whoah! Obviously a lot of people knew about Internode's new plans being released today. Their sign-up pages are choking at the moment and I can't churn from iiNet. Hopefully the load eases off later today.
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2. microUgly says…
Lucky, son of a...
Going from 512kb to 1.5Mb is enough of a jump for me atm. My ISP's switched last night and it was a real treat to watch movie trailers instantly.
Posted on Wed 17 Jan, 2007
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1. Paul says…
Internode have also just released 8MB ADSL to the Frenchville exchange so as soon as I confirm with my existing ISP when my contract is up, I'm churning.
Posted on Thu 11 Jan, 2007