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    Telstra Cable Broadband..anyone have it?

    Got a thing in the letterbox today about cable broadband. $78 a month including line rental, 200gb a month download, speeds of up to 100Mbps. Anyone have this? I'm paying 90 a month with iinet for only 60gb peak/ 60gb offpeak download. I have a Tesltra Cable box on the wall outside that I thought was just for decoration but apparently you can get cable broadband on it now.
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    sounds good!!

    wonder if i can get it, hmmmmmm

    is there a way of looking it up?
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    What.... We're paying 90 a month with iinet and getting 200GB on / 200GB off.

    At my parents house we had bigpond cable. Rarely/NEVER dropped out, all I knew was that it was expensive. Seems they have become a reasonable provider these days, much like their mobile business.
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    Yes

    I have Bigpond Ultimate Cable Broadband.... Although its a little slow today...

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    This was my fastest, usually hovers around here
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    What.... We're paying 90 a month with iinet and getting 200GB on / 200GB off.

    At my parents house we had bigpond cable. Rarely/NEVER dropped out, all I knew was that it was expensive. Seems they have become a reasonable provider these days, much like their mobile business.
    Does that 90 include the 30 bux line rental? my 90 includes the line rental so its 60 a month for the actual BB. Been with IINet since 2004 and If this place didn't have cable I would never think of going back to telstra but this sounds good to me.

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    Look at other providers too. There are some that might have permission to use the pit as well as Telstra
    Sure, we dont have to worry about viking raids or scurvy anymore, but instead we make a daily routine of sitting in flimsy, fibreglass (or metal) boxes full of gasoline which are propelled in opposing directions on the freeway at velocities matching that of low flying aircraft.

    This is a roundabout way of saying that cars are dangerous....

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    Do you need super speed? Yes - get Telstra
    If you value dl allowance more, go TPG unlimited. Had Telstra cable since its inception (1g per month $120) and they were always unnecessarily fast. With my current TPG connection everything i do is timely, youtube, downloading (legal) movies, music, not instantaneous but I can afford to wait. I have never really needed something so fast that I wish I had Telstra.

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    Problem with ADSL is, the further you live from the exchange, the more it sucks. I live around 4kms plus from the exchange and the speeds are pretty average at around 400kbps. If I could get cable, I would. But Telstra have stopped rolling out cable since the inception of the NBN. Other thing is too, cable has far lower ping times, which is generally preferable for those who game online.
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    tried that speedtest with my current iinet adsl connection which I thought was a decent speed and got this: Download speed - 5.55mbps Upload speed - 0.81 mbps Ping - 28ms. So if I get cable I will have over 10 times faster speed...twice more gb per month and 12 bux cheaper per month...hmmm

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