firstly, do you need a home phone? most people dont use it that often these days, i certainly dont, because of mobile phones. the reason i ask this is if you dont have to pay for line rental, it can save you a lot of money. VOIP services are excellent these days, and you can plug your existing phone into most voip routers.
secondly, in my experience, there really are only two providers that have the right mix of value for money, support, and being big enough, and that is internode/iinet and adam internet.
for instance, adam internet have 20gb of naked dsl for $50, internode have 30gb for $60 but that comes with $10 of voip credit a month if you think you will use your home phone more often.
http://www.adam.com.au/products/adamezychoice_nakedhttp://www.internode.on.net/residential ... asy_naked/the non-naked prices for both of those are $10 less, but then you have to factor in the fact that you are paying $30 or so minimum for your home phone. hence why i was stressing to make sure you really do need your home phone.
Ron Burgundy wrote:Im thinking ill go with a company called Nuskope, who are offering unlimited ADSL2+ for $54.95 plus I need to get a home line from Telstra.
cant comment on Nuskope directly because i havent had experience with them, but the problem with a lot of the smaller ISPs is that they have to buy bandwidth from one of the big players. i.e TPG internet have what look like great deals but their speeds are almost always bad because of the fact that they basically pay optus to use their gear.
internode and adam both have their own dslams in most exchanges in adelaide (most, not all) so they are able to provide you with better speeds etc.
depends on your usage too. both adam and internode offer 200gb plans which is a ton for most people, i would only consider something different if you are going to smash way more than that.
Psyber wrote:I'm holding off to see what happens with the NBN as I was supposed to be able to get it in October just gone.
with regards to the NBN, unless you think you might change providers, i dont think this will matter too much. all of the companies will be wanting to get you across to NBN, so if you are a current customer they would change you over no worries i would imagine.
im not an expert, there may be others which may have other opinions, but that is mine