Thread: leaving Telstra for another Co

TPG Mobile frequently asked questions for 49 Mobile Cap Saver Plans.

cheers
Michael

Originally Posted by Waldo

Who, TPG? they're owned by Telstra, so far as I'm aware of.

Don't worry about whoever it is you choose, as whichever router you are provided with your Macs will recognise it. I had the same concern with the bloke from Optus. Didn't even have to change anything on the two base stations - they recognised everything and it was a piece of cake.

Like all things Mac, plug and play. it's only with the other mob you have to install stuff and read manuals for.

Well there ya go. Live and learn.

Originally Posted by Big Shed

I use a Billion 7404 adsl2, wireless, VOIP modem router. Was supplied free of charge, under some govt scheme because we live in the country, by Internode.
The modem/router is excellent. As a result of our good run the 2 daughters and son have all bought one at some stage and they're happy too.

Internode is an excellent ISP, the one time I had a problem, I rang got connected in a minute or so to tech in Adelaide ( their HO ) could even understand him!

I use Soul as our home phone provider, cheap local calls, max $2. STD and $2/30mins most o/seas countries.

I should get off my backside and get VOIP/Skype going, I'mm gunna

Originally Posted by rsser

yep; one of the sons has a Billion and likes it.

So wld I if in $$ ;-}

Billion are great. I have the 7401 VGO thingy. Excellent support from the company too if anything goes wrong (I had issues about 18 months back with Voip codecs and the techs were excellent). The router costs something like $140-ish with VOIP wireless, ADSL2+ modem, router, 4 port switch (all the good bits). I had a similar netcomm (NB9W) beforehand and they were very fragile. Several people I knew had them and they all bought the dust after about 18 months or so.

Originally Posted by Waldo

Who, TPG? they're owned by Telstra, so far as I'm aware of.

Nope - Owned by SOUL or some such thing. They use Agile DSLAMS (the bit of kit in the exchange that your phone line phsycally plugs into), Telstra use their own. The only common route that your data takes is the 'last mile' of copper (and of course any uplink to Telstra from TPG...). Two very, very different companies at opposite ends of the pricing (and support) spectrum.

Cheers,
Dave

Put everything in place today, so the wheels are turning. So far so good, except they were wrong about being able to bundle adsl2, home phone and mobiles. It's any two of the three. So it's costing me an extra $5 a month for the mobile but still easily $80 less than our average telstra bill.
Oh and I rang T to ask wwhat they could do to entice me to stay. Pretty well zip. If fact, exactly zip. OK

Now I need to get a modem.
cheers
Michael

Cool! Hope the process is fairly painless - going to ADSL2 does involve physically plugging your phone line into new equipment, so there's always a slight outage.

I would recommend the Billion range (I think the relevant one is 740x...) - they have some nice all in one units (modem/router/wireless/voip), which I have found to be good and have recommended previously, with success. If you use a price search engine/google/whatever, you should be able to find somewhere fairly local that you can buy them from at reasonable price. Probably mid $150's range.

Cheers,
Dave

thanks for the recommendation Dave. Bit more than I wanted to spend on the modem. I currently have a wireless D-link router dwl-900ap, 11mbps which I was hoping to get away with for a bit longer. Hope it's not too archaic.

Cheers
Michael

Originally Posted by mic-d

thanks for the recommendation Dave. Bit more than I wanted to spend on the modem. I currently have a wireless D-link router dwl-900ap, 11mbps which I was hoping to get away with for a bit longer. Hope it's not too archaic.

Cheers
Michael

Yeah, there's always that on this forum - sombody encouraging you tp spend more than your budget

Were you using Voip (can't remember, and too lazy to go back and read )? If so you'll need something to connect the phone to the voip provider...

Cheers,
Dave

no Dave, no voip. dearly beloved and I skype each other, esp if she's away OS, but that's not the voip I think you're talking about.

cheers
Michael

Originally Posted by mic-d

no Dave, no voip. dearly beloved and I skype each other, esp if she's away OS, but that's not the voip I think you're talking about.

cheers
Michael

ahh. just me being confused then

I got an opinion from Darren at Ozcableguy this morning about what modem (<$100 ) to get and the Billion 7301vgp with voip/wireless was one of three recommendations he made. So I bought the Billion on the basis of the glowing reports from you guys! If it's no good I'll be tracking you all down...

TPG comms so far have been excellent, they seem to be sending a notification email for every advancement of my order.
cheers
Michael

Originally Posted by mic-d

I got an opinion from Darren at Ozcableguy this morning about what modem (<$100 ) to get and the Billion 7301vgp with voip/wireless was one of three recommendations he made. So I bought the Billion on the basis of the glowing reports from you guys! If it's no good I'll be tracking you all down...

Good to hear! If you do have a problem with the product, Billion do have good support as well. I've not used the 7301 series, though it looks almost identical to my modem.

Originally Posted by mic-d

TPG comms so far have been excellent, they seem to be sending a notification email for every advancement of my order.
cheers
Michael

Good to hear as well.

Cheers,
Dave

TPG activated the adsl today, but I had to ring for technical advice on the router set up and boy the tech person was good. Had me sorted out lickety-split. SWMBO's Mac just connected itself (well after I gave her the password), mine was a bit of a fiddle. Connection's much faster than the cable, although the old d-link wireless router might have slowed that down a tad. So far so good with tpg.

Cheers
Michael