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Naked DSL in Naremburn

Luke — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:24:53 +0000

Naremburn in Sydney, is a really good area to live in for Naked DSL. Most of Naremburn is connected to the St Leonards phone exchange and it’s fairly close to the exchange too. Most of Naremburn is within about 2km of the exchange, at which distance you’d expect download speeds in excess of 10Mbps.

All the major Naked DSL providers are available in St Leonards, so you’ll be spoilt for choice. But if making that choice here are some tips about choosing the best Naked DSL plan and provider for you in Naremburn or at the St Leonards exchange.

If You Want A Great VoIP Service

If you want a VoIP service where you can use your existing home phone handsets as well as have a local phone number for people to call you on, then you can narrow your search down to iinet and Internode right away. Both have a high quality VoIP service with great features. iinet offers unlimited free calls to landlines within Australia – both local and national. Internode offers $10 of credit each month for just $5. iinet offer their VoIP service for free as part of a Naked DSL connection.

If you want to keep an existing landline phone number then iinet is currently your only option.

Just remember if you want to use VoIP with your exisitng home phone handsets, you’ll need to have a VoIP enabled ADSL2+ modem. You can buy such a modem from the ISP or you can BYO modem.

Click Here To Visit the iinet Website >>

Click Here To Visit the Internode Website >>

If You Want Really High Download Limit For A Cheap Price

TPG, Exetel and Netspace offer really good value for high download limits at cheap prices.

These are just some of the options and ways to break down the various offers from Naked DSL providers. Fortunately in Naremburn and the St Leonards exchange you have a lot of options to choose from!

Click Here to Visit the Netspace Website >>

Click Here to Visit the TPG Website >>

Click Here to Visit the Exetel Website >>

iinet & Other ISPs Benefit From Telstra Fee Hike

Luke — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:45:54 +0000

Naked DSL is making an impact on the broadband market in Australia. No doubt about it – otherwise why would Telstra be raising the price of disconnecting a landline within the first 3 months of connection?

There is now a $100 fee associated with having a “temporary” line. In other words a PSTN line that is disconnected within 3 months of connecting it. Here is the news on their website. In typical Telstra fashion they are increasing fees, rather than trying to compete on services and value.

Some may argue that they are simply recouping the cost of what it takes to connect a line. But for anyone who has done it recently, to connect a line without a technician visit it is $59. It takes a maximum of 10 minutes on the phone and then you’re done. Maybe there is some work required in the phone exchange, but if there is, it’s only minor. $100 as an early disconnection fee seems pretty rich.

One of the most common reasons for disconnecting a landline so quickly is for someone to move to Naked DSL. This move by Telstra will definitely advantage Naked DSL ISPs like iinet, Internode and Netspace. They are all ISPs which can connect Naked DSL without you needing a landline to get the process started.

The ISPs that will suffer from this are TPG and Exetel, which currently require their customers to have a Telstra line connected before they start the Naked DSL process. It was a popular option for people to connect a line just to get Naked DSL started with TPG or Exetel. That is something that we will be recommending less to people now there is an additional $100 fee.

iinet already has a significant portion of the Naked DSL market, and this is only likely to help them. Internode and Netspace have also become increasing popular for people wanting to connect broadband without a landline. Both providers have free uploads (unlike iinet) and Netspace has introduced some very high data limits on its plans. $49.99 gives 10GB of downloads and $59.99 gives 20GB of downloads. And like iinet, Internode and Netspace don’t require you to have a landline to get started with Naked DSL.

iinet, Internode, TPG or Exetel Annex M

Luke — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:32:14 +0000

We have quite a few enquiries come through the website about Annex M. If you are unfamiliar with the term, it is a technology which allows upload speeds to increase up to about 2.75Mbps – more than double the current upload speed of ADSL2+. You do require an Annex M capable modem to get the increased upload speeds.

Many of the enquiries are in relation to TPG and Exetel and whether they offer Annex M on their plans. The current answer is that they don’t. We will of course update you as they introduce Annex M, but we are not guessing that this will happen any time soon.

Annex M Providers

The only current providers of Annex M from the major Naked DSL suppliers are:

Internode
iinet

They only supply Annex M on Business Plans, not on any residential plan.

iinet Naked DSL plans for Business start at $84.95 per month including 10GB of data allowance. The data can be used any time and comes with a Static IP, which are important features for business.

Internode also offers a Static IP address on its business plans. You can start the Internode sign up process here. You can quickly go through the first page of the process to see all the Internode Business Plans.

Neither iinet or Internode charge an ongoing fee for having Annex M and the faster upload speeds. It doesn’t cost anything to add Annex M with Internode, but there is a once off $49 activation fee with iinet. But $49 is fairly easily forgotten in the set up costs if iinet is the better option for you. They do have far more exchanges than Internode and you will need to be connected directly to an Internode exchange (not via Optus) to get Annex M.

If you are unsure of what is available, please contact us.

Exetel VoIP with Naked DSL

Luke — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:53:27 +0000

Exetel offers a range of extras as part of their ADSL and Naked DSL plans. For example you get 30 free Australian SMS each month and 20 free Email2Fax pages per month. They are also one of the few providers to offer a Static IP address for free on a residential plan. But many Naked DSL subscribers are most interested in the Exetel VoIP service and how it stacks up.

100 Free Calls to Landlines

Exetel has no minimum spend for their VoIP service, so you only pay if you make calls. The added benefit is that Exetel includes 100 free calls to Australian landline numbers each month! The standard rate for calls to Australian landlines is 10 cents, so it’s effectively $10 free per month.

There is no flagfall (connection fee) charge on any call with Exetel VoIP, which means the rates will be a lot cheaper than most of the big phone companies and their residential phone plans. Calls from one Exetel VoIP user to another are free. Here are all the call rates:

Click Here to Sign Up With Exetel Naked DSL!

Naked DSL in Ballarat, Victoria

Luke — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:24:16 +0000

We had an enquiry come in last week about Naked DSL availability in Ballarat in Victoria. The options in Ballarat are similar to many large regional centres around Australia, so I thought it would be worth examining what is on offer.

The first thing to note is that not every provider can offer Naked DSL in Ballarat. Why not? For an internet provider to be able to offer Naked DSL they need to have their own DSLAM installed at the local phone exchange. The cost of installing DSLAMs is extremely expensive and so most providers have focused on CBD and metropolitan rollouts of their coverage. If there was a good business case for a DSLAM installation in a regional area then they would have gone ahead with it.

The broadband market in Australian has grown quite regionally. iinet has the widest Naked DSL coverage in WA. Internode has the largest Naked DSL coverage in SA, covering such places as Mount Gambier, Whyalla, Port Lincoln and Murray Bridge. TPG and Optus have more coverage in VIC, NSW and QLD.

So What’s On Offer in Ballarat?

By using the Naked DSL Availability tool, you can see that some providers have Naked DSL in Ballarat. Do they all have their own DSLAMs there? No. They are all currently re-selling services using the Optus DSLAM in the Doveton St, Ballarat phone exchange. So if you liked the look of going with Internode, you would be able to get their plans delivered on the Optus network.

The other providers to offer services are Exetel, Netspace and Dodo. So there is still choice and a variety of plans and pricing that you can select from. If you want high download allowance for gaming or high web usage, then Exetel and Dodo are worth looking at. If you prefer a higher level of customer support and don’t need such a high data allowance, then Internode and Netspace are fantastic options.

What About iinet and TPG?

Unless they also strike a wholesale deal with Optus it is unlikely that either company will be getting Naked DSL in Ballarat very soon. To install a DSLAM in a phone exchange takes months. So seeing they haven’t even announced an installation in Ballarat, I wouldn’t be holding my breathe. You are far better offer going with one of the ISPs that can offer you the service now.

Naked DSL with a Static IP

Luke — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:10:58 +0000

Getting a Static IP With Naked DSL

For a wide range of reasons, a Static IP can be imperative – you may want to host servers or operate a Virtual Private Network (VPN). This this a comprehensive guide of each Naked DSL provider and when they offer a Static IP.

Here are the Static IP Reviews:

iinet offers a Static IP for free on Naked DSL Business Plans. Their business plans also offer Annex M for greater upload speeds. iinet does not offer a Static IP on residential Naked DSL plans.