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**xanonlinexan** · 07-07-2008, 03:13 PM

1. A lot of members on Whirlpool have not used a Telstra product and simply bash them and other Telstra users because they think they are the superior nerd.

The survey is actually sent out to every ISP and than its put on the ISPs website and given to people from that ISP to fill out. Its not given to random people to just fill out and put in bad stuff about random ISPs. There where over a thousand Telstra users that filled out the survey and the majority of those Telstra users are the ones who had gave Telstra the bad reputation.

You can't just fill out a Telstra survey if your going through another ISP like Optus or something cause it won't work (at least it didn't with me).

2. I don't find their value for money good either. The only broadband product I think is worth considering is their extreme cable offerings 30000/1000 (many users benching around 33Mbit as T$ don't cap the speed, it's the max cable performance). Without doubt the leader in Aussie broadband performance.

Cable is just like ADSL2+ in the fact thats its VERY limited. MOST people are still stuck on ADSL and the fastest cable speed you can get in an ADSL area is 3MB/s whereas ADSL can go up to 8MB/s. Thats IF there is cable in there area to begin with. Cable sure as hell isn't in my area. Unless they put it in the last few months.

I'm not gonna deny that Telstra cable is good/bad cause I've never heard anything bad about it but only good things. but the fact is most people are on ADSL/ADSL2+ and thats exactly what I'm basing my opinion on.

Anyhow... I know this looks like I'm pro Telstra. Though the fact is I rather an ADSL2+ offering with VoIP and a big data package. Like iinet's naked DSL. I just find Whilpool users to be very one sided and think all that people need the internet is for huge amounts of P2P traffic and thus rendering any other ISP's offering besides the likes of Internode etc etc completely useless.

Telstra make you pay for your downloads after you've reached your quota. The only plans they don't make you pay for your downloads is the Liberty plans where instead they cap you. The largest Liberty plan is 25GB. I have 40GB with internode and I still go through that in a month. Lets not forget that the 25GB Liberty plan is $99.95 which is the same as I'm paying now but with 40GB. Why would anyone pick a plan which has worse features over a plan with better features. it doesn't make any sense.

Also there are ISPs that offer huge amounts of quota. exetel offer over 100GB of quota for less than what I'm paying now for 40GB. But I'm not going through them for a few reasons and one of them being customer service.

07-07-2008, 03:13 PM	#63
xanonlinexan Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 623 Senior Member	1. A lot of members on Whirlpool have not used a Telstra product and simply bash them and other Telstra users because they think they are the superior nerd. The survey is actually sent out to every ISP and than its put on the ISPs website and given to people from that ISP to fill out. Its not given to random people to just fill out and put in bad stuff about random ISPs. There where over a thousand Telstra users that filled out the survey and the majority of those Telstra users are the ones who had gave Telstra the bad reputation. You can't just fill out a Telstra survey if your going through another ISP like Optus or something cause it won't work (at least it didn't with me). 2. I don't find their value for money good either. The only broadband product I think is worth considering is their extreme cable offerings 30000/1000 (many users benching around 33Mbit as T$ don't cap the speed, it's the max cable performance). Without doubt the leader in Aussie broadband performance. Cable is just like ADSL2+ in the fact thats its VERY limited. MOST people are still stuck on ADSL and the fastest cable speed you can get in an ADSL area is 3MB/s whereas ADSL can go up to 8MB/s. Thats IF there is cable in there area to begin with. Cable sure as hell isn't in my area. Unless they put it in the last few months. I'm not gonna deny that Telstra cable is good/bad cause I've never heard anything bad about it but only good things. but the fact is most people are on ADSL/ADSL2+ and thats exactly what I'm basing my opinion on. Anyhow... I know this looks like I'm pro Telstra. Though the fact is I rather an ADSL2+ offering with VoIP and a big data package. Like iinet's naked DSL. I just find Whilpool users to be very one sided and think all that people need the internet is for huge amounts of P2P traffic and thus rendering any other ISP's offering besides the likes of Internode etc etc completely useless. Telstra make you pay for your downloads after you've reached your quota. The only plans they don't make you pay for your downloads is the Liberty plans where instead they cap you. The largest Liberty plan is 25GB. I have 40GB with internode and I still go through that in a month. Lets not forget that the 25GB Liberty plan is $99.95 which is the same as I'm paying now but with 40GB. Why would anyone pick a plan which has worse features over a plan with better features. it doesn't make any sense. Also there are ISPs that offer huge amounts of quota. exetel offer over 100GB of quota for less than what I'm paying now for 40GB. But I'm not going through them for a few reasons and one of them being customer service.
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