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Posted by: nimrod Jan 30 2012, 08:49 PM

Genuine question to OZ or anyone else that knows the answer.
I have both my landline phone and my internet service through OPTUS .
At the moment my internet costs me $60 a months and this gives me ( so called ) unlimited amount of use. My landline phone I pay a line rental of $29 a month, so internet and phone costs me $89 a month. Plus any calls I make.
Usual landline phone bill is around $45 or there abouts.

Now Optus are offering a special deal for $50 a month that covers phone rental and calls ? + internet connection with 5gb of usage.
Now I don't know as yet IF this is Broadband coverage.
My main question is How much is 5gb ?.
My main usage now is looking at and talking on a few Fishing sites and viewing any utube clips etc that come up on the sites, as well as downloading the wrestling on utube on occasion.
Probably about 1 hour in total per week in utube which would be about 4 hours a month of utubing, and about 20 hours total of loading pages from forums etc.
Would 5gb be enough for what I use a computer for ?.

Posted by: Fed Jan 30 2012, 08:55 PM

You should be able to check with optus (via the internet) your current internet usage and also your usage history.
https://memberservices.optuszoo.com.au/

Posted by: quintrex101 Jan 30 2012, 09:10 PM

I would say 5gb would be okay for what you are doing Frank. Browsing fishing forums uses next to nothing, youtube uses abit more but if you are only on it for 4 hours of the month i'd say you'd still have net left !

Posted by: nimrod Jan 30 2012, 09:36 PM

Thanks for the link Fed but I can't remember my password to get in and help buttons just go around in circles.
I tried as many combinations to my password as I could think of but none got me started.
My optus email ? IS that the email i use every day or is it a different email I might have got when I joined optus, too many years ago now and can't remember anything about when I first joined, just been paying the monthly account for the past about 12 years or so.

Posted by: Jumpus GooDarus Jan 30 2012, 09:40 PM

More than you'll ever use if you stop watching nutty movies

General surfing prob lucky to use 500 mb in other words 1/2 GB where downloads used to suck up the GB's these days streaming down sizes the load on gb's when watching you tube

Got sick of bills as well

Dumped the land line which i rarely ever used was paying $30 a month just to have a line to access internet which was an additional $80

$40 per month now gives me 4G access with telstra to internet super quick & can take laptop anywhere that has reception

$60 per month gives me unlimited ph calls on new mobile which was part of the package

Posted by: oz man Jan 30 2012, 09:53 PM

https://idp.optusnet.com.au/idp/optus/Authn/Service/ISP?spEntityID=https%3A%2F%2Fmemberservices.optuszoo.com.au%2Fshibboleth

just usage your email address and pw

But yes must would be ok on that plan , but read the fine print as I,m with them and even thou I get great internet they hit me on my phone calls big time on mobiles..That is why I have voip phone from my net phone cost me like $10.00 a month to ring the world as I get 100 free call world wide included in my $4.75 a mth the rest is mobile calls.

Posted by: oz man Jan 30 2012, 10:02 PM

Just had alook at those plans and the one I would recommend is the fusion $79 But have a read at the call cost as they stiill charge you on all plans if it is not to another optus phone as far as mobile go

Posted by: Fed Jan 30 2012, 10:24 PM

I'm sure they mix up the options & pricing just to confuse the hell out of you.

Sorry I can't help you with your password Frank, ring them up & tell them the story and they will ask you some questions to confirm your identity and then they will help you.
You could quite possibly do it through email too.

Posted by: poly Jan 31 2012, 12:51 AM

frank I'm with aapt cost for 1 month $110.00 that's for my home phone, internet, Pams mobile, down load is 12gig, $60 free calls on home phone, and possum gets $20 on the mobile, (she doesn't use it much) that works for us so get on line mate and check out the rest there are plenty of good deals going

Paul

Posted by: nimrod Jan 31 2012, 04:31 AM

Probably more confused now then I was some hours ago.
Been watching a dvd I got for my birthday " Paul " it's an alian that meets up with some guys and it's a whole lot of fun.
Who's seen it ?.

Posted by: jack Jan 31 2012, 05:38 PM

frank shop around you may be able to find other deals that are better. You can than ring optus back and tell them that you will be taking your business elsewhere unless they give you 10G (or even more) for that price.

I generally use between 5 & 10G a month and am doing a of a lot more than you on the internet from the sounds of it

Kid surfing looking for games, wife surfing ,working from home regularly and skype a fair bit with video, me surfing, downloading software for work if needed ,working from home regularly and skype a fair bit with video. On top of that an xbox connected to the internet and a couple of smartphones that connect to the internet when at home to synchronize and update.
3 pc's that automatically download and install the latest patches/security fixes as well.

Jack

Posted by: quintrex101 Jan 31 2012, 09:00 PM

Holy shit, this thread makes me look bad, i have 120gb of net and i come close to using that every month

Posted by: poly Jan 31 2012, 10:17 PM

hope your not downloading porn!!!!!!!!


Paul

Posted by: quintrex101 Feb 1 2012, 01:53 AM

I seen that comment coming haha, nah no porn mate