Andy (Beaky), that $49 per month Telstra deal excludes phone rental etc right ?   and is it limited to 25 Gigs download per month.
I also see they say "up to" 20,000kbps, network dependant. theres the rub. yes, i dislike telstra immensely.lol  when u do a sppeed test, what is it coming back at ? I would be interested to see, but i know your exchange is older than my local one, so u might get reasonable speed, subject to capacity/congestion ?

I just looked at the deal i have with AAPT per month. They guarrantee 90 percent minimum of the 1500 speed or you dont pay. My AAPT deal isnt the worlds best, but the best i could get for my suburb, which is mostly brand new homes.

I pay $79 per month - Unlimited Download at 1500 kbps.
I pay $29 per month phone rental, which includes $40 of calls-local
My total is $109 per month.

I wish it was $$$ Nothing.lol,  but it was the best deal I could get in my suburb since Telstra kept telling us that there was no broadband service available due to capacity issues. We tried wireless with Vodafone and Telstra but it was unusable.
So, I am stuck with $109 per month. At least I can get on the net with next to no issues 90 percent of the time.