[plug] ISPs in WA

[Daniel Pearson]

Jonathan Young wrote:
> I'm not trying to flamebait, but 2 years is a LONG time in computing.
>   
But when you look at things in terms of speed - it's pretty much peaked 
for the time being, hence being safe to do so. As said, YMMV.
> In 2001 I would have said 256kbps was all I'd need.
>
> By 2003 I couldn't have managed on that.
>
> If in 2005 I'd signed a 2 year contract for 1.5Mbps, I reckon I'd be
> kicking myself now.
>
> Personally, I'd shell out the $149 to keep my freedom to switch, unless
> I could buy your way out later for similar money (i.e. <$200).
>   
Which is a business decision that will be made, and made differently by 
many different people. As being someone who has had ADSL since the late 
90's, and only used 1 provider and never had issues, locking into such a 
contract was never an issue.
> That said I always used my 56kbps, 256kbps and 512kbps connections to the
> limits as soon as I got them.  These days there is more speed available
> than I need on my connection so a part of the two years would be used up
> while I "grow into" a faster connection AND it is typically only every
> two years that I upgrade or switch ISP, even with the freedom to do so,
> so I guess I can see both sides.
>   
Exactly :)
> On 2/6/2006, "Daniel Pearson" <gpearson at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>   
>> In the case of Amnet - paying out the rest of the contract, but 10gb of
>> downloads (+ free waix) @ 8/1 is more than enough for my current needs
>> so I don't think that's really an issue, YMMV.
>>
>> Jonathan Young wrote:
>>     
>>> What does the buy-out clause cost; if someone starts offerring 16Mbps for
>>> $10 a month and you want to break your contract?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/6/2006, "Daniel Pearson" <gpearson at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> simon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Ranz (ranz at devdata.net) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it just me or are others of you experiencing bad service with ISPs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Im currently with westnet who arent too bad except for the occasionally
>>>>> outage. However amnet have recently enabled my exchange, so I was looking to
>>>>> change to them but they charge $149 connection fee! Totally astounded me......
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> I just signed a 2 year contract (heaven forbid!) and got the $0
>>>> connection fee.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> --
>>> Jonathan Young
>>> Director of PC-PHIX
>>> jonathan at pcphix.com
>>>
>>> Phone: 0410 455 674
>>> Web: http://www.pcphix.com/
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>>>
>>>       
>
> --
> Jonathan Young
> Director of PC-PHIX
> jonathan at pcphix.com
>
> Phone: 0410 455 674
> Web: http://www.pcphix.com/
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