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Goku I am in Melbourne and use Optus Cable so I will tell you about this which is also available in Sydney.
Optus Cable runs at 300kb/s meaning that you can download a 5mb file in a very short amount of time. What many people lack to mention to others is that a lot of sites are restricted so even if you have a very fast connection speed you will probably not go faster than around 40kb/s (which is still very fast). Surfing speed on the other hand is pretty much instantaneous.
Optus cable costs $195 to instal and $75 a month meaning that your first bill will come to roughly $275. They give you free phone line rental though which is another good thing saving you $12 a month.
This might seed a lot but it kinda depends on how much you log on and how important your connection is to you. When I had dial-up I used to pay $25 a month for my dial up connection and $12 for my phone line. I used to connect a LOT so taking in consideration the amount I payed for the dial-up, phone line and phone calls to log on the net I used to pay well over $60 a month and sometimes reach insane figures. Optus cable on the otherhand only costs $63 a month if you take in consideration that you get free phone line rental so to me that was the best option. Best thing you can do is work out how much you pay all up and see what is really more convenient for you. At any rate though, nothing can match what I have now compared to my dial up [img]smile.gif[/img]
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