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Oh. My. Good­ness.  That’s cheaper than my cur­rent plan, and bet­ter geared towards my band­width usage patterns!

And, at only $3 a GB if I go over, it doesn’t mat­ter either way (well, not much).

Ahhh!!  Dilema!!!  iiNet are just on the brink of announc­ing more DSLAM roll­outs, with semi-unlimited upload speeds… I guess I’ll wait for that list to be unveiled before try­ing to make any fur­ther deci­sions on this one.

What exists in Syd­ney in the way of con­sumer (i.e. not busi­ness) VoIP gate­way ser­vices?  And can you use fax over VoIP?  I’m so ready to ditch the phone line and go over this entirely:  cur­rently, we’re pay­ing $25 for line rental, and $60 for ADSL a month.  I don’t know what we’re pay­ing in calls, but it’d be enough.

This would be $0 in line rental, $45 for inter­net access, and some amount of tele­phony costs — if noth­ing else, we’d save mas­sively interstate/long dis­tance and inter­na­tional.  Even if voice usage con­sumed large-ish amounts of band­width, I can’t see it using more than a GB per month (so, add $3 to tele­phony costs) — that’s based on the fact that if I stream a 192kbps stream for 8 and a half hours, it only uses about 900MB — and it’s safe to pre­sume that VoIP won’t be any­where near that sort of quality!

Meh, can’t think about it now… still got this stu­pid assess­ment unfin­ished, must keep work­ing.  More to post, but that actu­ally requires thought, not just techno-babble, so it will come in a while…

EDIT: More has been posted, and back­dated to when it actu­ally SHOULD have appeared.  See arti­cle 106, “A feast for sore eyes” for more!