The sales people at various ISPs had explained to me in great technical detail exactly why I couldn’t have every one of the broadband options available.
“Definitely not cable. There is no cable in that area.” Well what’s that cable going down the street? Into a Telstra box on the neighbour’s house? Anyway they found a way out of that, by saying the installation had to be at the landlord’s expense.
“Definitely not ADSL. Too far from the exchange.” I believed them for a while.
Wireless would have needed a $300 modem plus a booster aerial, and is $120 a month for a lousy 3 GB. It wouldn’t have worked in the rain.
Unfortunately someone in another apartment fell for that. But the guy at the back didn’t. He already had ADSL. So armed with that information I got ADSL. Just plain ADSL, as ADSL2+ is out of my price range at present. I’m paying just over half the wireless rate, for four times as much in downloads.
I’m wondering if that is why they are pushing wireless as the only option. We pay a lot more for it, and get a lot less.
Anyways, more on topic blogging to follow soon.
