hmm seems the goods..bigpond isnt a contract which is a good thing i guess, was the 30mbps 25 gig deal fast ?
I only have 1.5mb here since there's no adsl2 exchange here, in theory exetel should be the same speed as bigpond since I'm on the same lines for much of the way but in practice its faster than bigpond, it's also not droped out for even one second yet and bigpond were often reseting servers in the middle of the night or whatever they do for 15 minutes or so. I was happy with bigpond but in the end the price I was paying for the data I had compared to the price I should be paying was just too much difference and I couldn't do it anymore. When I called to quit it they asked me what deal I was on and I told them and they just said wow... we can't come close to matching that are you sure that's right? so they had no offer for me. I was also getting tired of their not looking after people in remote areas, it doesn't affect me since I happen to live close to an exchange but most people around here don't and there's nothing much being done about it so I rather not have my money go to people that don't care.
I can see usage graphs inside the exetel members area for all the links they use, none of them run flat out at anytime during the day, they get close at peak times but apart from that there's plenty spare so speed should allways be good. Anyway you can go with the bigpond plan, nothing wrong with them if you have the money to spare and don't mind the limited data but the cost and getting capped really anoyed me at times
. They had 3g before and it was OK much better then the current one but more costly also
