Author Topic: Someone help me find a better Australian Internet Service Provider?  (Read 1897 times)

stop paying for 20 bucks a month internet.

stop paying for 20 bucks a month internet.

Nice stuffpost bro

I'm fairly certain that this is the basic list of providers where I live:
- SpinTel
- Dodo
- TPG
- EscapeNet
- EveryNet
- MyNetFone
- EveryNet
- Primus

My house has ADSL2+... I think?
Your best bet would probably be TPG. When I used to live in my old house, I had TPG and they gave good service and tried to help out with problems but got restricted by Telstra being a pack of cunts.

Telstra is the single worst option under the sun. Avoid like the plague.

Your two best bets are between TPG and iiNet (which unfortunately isn't on your list), although I've heard some good things about Optus as well. The reason your connection is so stuff is because Dodo is actually tiny (not as small as the other ones there, though) and has little control over the network; they rely on other, bigger providers to handle the majority of their infrastructure which ends up giving the Dodo end users (like yourself) far less performance.

Before you lock into anything, make sure you get quotes on their down and upload speeds. Don't get suckered into high data caps/unlimited stuff, because we all know that's just sales being forgetwits. They use it to try and convince idiots to subscribe to their low quality, low speed connections.

BTW, here's my stats from Telstra in Sydney:



Unless the Australian Government changes the NBN plan to Fiber-to-the-Node, don't expect any much faster than this.

Thank you for the useful information yo. I'd honestly be happy around the 20mbps range.

Don't get suckered into high data caps/unlimited stuff, because we all know that's just sales being forgetwits. They use it to try and convince idiots to subscribe to their low quality, low speed connections.

Can you elaborate a little on this? What happens when you hit your data cap?
« Last Edit: July 28, 2016, 05:48:03 AM by Rally »

Can you elaborate a little on this? What happens when you hit your data cap?
If you download beyond your data cap, you aren't (normally) charged any extra, but your download speed (and sometimes upload speed) is reduced until the next billing period (usually a month later).

In my experience, my download speed is capped to about 100Kb/s when I exceed the cap, which means most pages outright fail to download before timing out, and I can't play any multiplayer games. Since upgrading to 200GBs/month cap, I haven't managed to exceed it, but that's mainly because the download speeds are so slow and network goes out so often I can't download anything in the first loving place...

I'm with Optus and its okay I guess



its okay