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 eraser
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| posted on March 26th, 2010 at 02:46 PM |
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Internode vs Bigpond.
Internode finally decided to take telstra head on in the internet war. check their new adverts out:
I think its great :P
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| posted on March 26th, 2010 at 02:52 PM |
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VERY CLEVER!! . Internode is pretty good.I just cant get it because im
2Km out of town,yeah that's right 2km.So much for the Governments broadband Campaign. 
"A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with
courage."
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| posted on March 26th, 2010 at 03:03 PM |
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We are with internode and happy with there service,when we ring them we speak to aussies i hate telstra they suck
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jjwebb123
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| posted on March 26th, 2010 at 03:07 PM |
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yeh,thanks , makes me feel a whole lot better
"A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with
courage."
Adolf Hitler At opening of 1934 Berlin Auto Show
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eraser
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| posted on March 26th, 2010 at 03:18 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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VERY CLEVER!!. Internode is pretty good.I just cant get it because im
2Km out of town,yeah that's right 2km.So much for the Governments broadband Campaign.
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2km out of town or 100kms out of town if you can get internet with telstra you can get internet with internode or adam or any other provider. They all
use the same infrastructure (excluding adsl2 which uses the telstra cables but they have their own dslams in the exchange.)
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jjwebb123
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| posted on March 26th, 2010 at 03:31 PM |
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nope,nope and nope.The current internet i am on,relies on wireless.(pretty much mobile phone signals(3g) ) and cable style broadband we can not
get.Our exchange has them,our town isnt that low.lol but the cables running to my house are all old style lines.They havnt been changed to new lines
which are capable of holding broadband.Trust me,i went through all that.
it took me a while to finally settle and give in to Wireless.But its not bad at all.
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| posted on March 26th, 2010 at 03:32 PM |
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I've been with internode over 4 years now and been really happy with them
the oldies had bigpond at a while back cant say i was overly impressed by it
OT clever add
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| posted on March 26th, 2010 at 04:23 PM |
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also with internode very happy with the support
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eraser
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| posted on March 26th, 2010 at 05:00 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by jjwebb123
nope,nope and nope.The current internet i am on,relies on wireless.(pretty much mobile phone signals(3g) ) and cable style broadband we can not
get.Our exchange has them,our town isnt that low.lol but the cables running to my house are all old style lines.They havnt been changed to new lines
which are capable of holding broadband.Trust me,i went through all that.
it took me a while to finally settle and give in to Wireless.But its not bad at all.
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Ahh 3G well does three have coverage in that area? but yeah wireless is a bit of a sucky area.
There is no such thing as old and new lines  did they say the ill fated
word "Pair gain" ? If the exchange is enabled and your on that exchange no matter the age of the cables as long as you have a piece of copper coming
into your house you can get it (unless the exchange is full as well).
It may be worth just calling internode to see if they can connect you as they will often connect people of greater distance.
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| posted on March 26th, 2010 at 05:04 PM |
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Yep, with Internode too. Good to support (and get support from) an Adelaide company. I think they were voted ISP of the year. My work colleague's
fiance works for them and apparently the boss puts on one hell of a Christmas bash, all at his own expense. Really looks after his employees and it
shows in the service they give.
Telstra keep wanting me to change to Bigpond (my phones are with them), but no way. 
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| posted on March 26th, 2010 at 05:15 PM |
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so.... im a little in the dark here. well... at least i dont pay for it. who is adam?
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jjwebb123
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| posted on March 26th, 2010 at 06:50 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by jjwebb123
nope,nope and nope.The current internet i am on,relies on wireless.(pretty much mobile phone signals(3g) ) and cable style broadband we can not
get.Our exchange has them,our town isnt that low.lol but the cables running to my house are all old style lines.They havnt been changed to new lines
which are capable of holding broadband.Trust me,i went through all that.
it took me a while to finally settle and give in to Wireless.But its not bad at all.
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Ahh 3G well does three have coverage in that area? but yeah wireless is a bit of a sucky area.
There is no such thing as old and new lines did they say the ill fated
word "Pair gain" ? If the exchange is enabled and your on that exchange no matter the age of the cables as long as you have a piece of copper coming
into your house you can get it (unless the exchange is full as well).
It may be worth just calling internode to see if they can connect you as they will often connect people of greater distance.
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yeah they did say that pair gain shit.i was gonna say that but thought it might be wrong.As soon as telstra saw that they just went straight to
wireless.I tried westnet as well and they said the same thing.My neighbor went to satelite,just to get good download and cheap.and get away from
telstra lol.
"A car for the people, an affordable Volkswagen, would bring great joy to the masses and the problems of building such a car must be faced with
courage."
Adolf Hitler At opening of 1934 Berlin Auto Show
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| posted on March 26th, 2010 at 11:09 PM |
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Hi
Slightly off subject, I'm with iinet, love em.
Steve
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| posted on March 27th, 2010 at 10:35 AM |
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Yep...we've been with Internode since arriving in Aus, and very happy.
Not sure if it's changed now, but at the time they were the only provider i could find where 25gb of downloads meant 25GB OF DOWNLOADS!!! All of the
rest classed anything i uploaded into my download limit. Wasn't having any of that thanks very much!
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| posted on March 27th, 2010 at 10:43 AM |
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I'm with netspace,had no probs with them,we have a name at work for bigpond ,its now called bigswamp
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| posted on March 27th, 2010 at 02:28 PM |
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i hate iinet. They charged me for early termination. They told me it would take up to 6 weeks before I could be connected. It took them 6 months. When
I moved it was 16 months after I asked them to connect, but less than 12 months since they connected. So they hit me up for $90. It is in the contract
that the 12 months is from date of connection, but its on about page 80 of 90. If I knew it was going to be 6 months before connection I wouldnt have
signed. They tried to charge me the ADSL rate from day 1 as well, even though I only had access to dial up.
I'm with TPG now. havent had problem
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| posted on March 27th, 2010 at 10:20 PM |
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I'm with internode.
the only problem we have with them is when we go over the limit
and having to deal with dial-up speed
lol
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| posted on March 28th, 2010 at 08:33 PM |
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That is clever advertising,we recently swapped to internode from another supplier who screwed us over very badly and we are very happy with the speed
(in relation to previous speed),download capacity and service.
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| posted on March 28th, 2010 at 08:39 PM |
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Good ads. Obviously working as it's sparked a good debate on here.
Any ideas who owns the busses in the ad's... especially the one that obviously needs some TLC... that would be a nice field find.
1962 Deluxe Beetle
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| posted on March 28th, 2010 at 08:41 PM |
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I've got an early bay that looks like that,I did a double take after the first glance.
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| posted on March 28th, 2010 at 08:52 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by amazeer
i hate iinet. They charged me for early termination. They told me it would take up to 6 weeks before I could be connected. It took them 6 months. When
I moved it was 16 months after I asked them to connect, but less than 12 months since they connected. So they hit me up for $90. It is in the contract
that the 12 months is from date of connection, but its on about page 80 of 90. If I knew it was going to be 6 months before connection I wouldnt have
signed. They tried to charge me the ADSL rate from day 1 as well, even though I only had access to dial up.
I'm with TPG now. havent had problem
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ha, was with iinet for YEARS, no acknowledgement for long term customer etc, moved to TPG a year or so ago, ADSL2+... still us aussies are way
behind.. and lets hope Conroy does not get his way, then we will all sit behind a good old slow big wall of censorship...........
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