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Jonathan Young wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm not trying to flamebait, but 2 years is a LONG time in computing.
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<small>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.</small><br>
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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).
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<small>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.</small><br>
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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.
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<small>Exactly :)</small><br>
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<pre wrap="">On 2/6/2006, "Daniel Pearson" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gpearson@iinet.net.au"><gpearson@iinet.net.au></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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:
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<pre wrap="">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" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gpearson@iinet.net.au"><gpearson@iinet.net.au></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">simon wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Ranz (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ranz@devdata.net">ranz@devdata.net</a>) wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
Is it just me or are others of you experiencing bad service with ISPs.
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<pre wrap="">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......
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<pre wrap="">I just signed a 2 year contract (heaven forbid!) and got the $0
connection fee.
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Jonathan Young
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Jonathan Young
Director of PC-PHIX
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Phone: 0410 455 674
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