I think we lasted 14 months. Now it’s time to switch to ADSL 2+, def­i­nitely… unless Big­pond re-quota their plans in the near future. This is just one of those things that comes with chang­ing usage pat­terns. We’re still pretty aver­age users in terms of over­all band­width con­sump­tion (well, “pretty aver­age” based on Whinge­pool w0w-0mg-my-1$p-iz-so-st1ngy-w1t-bndwdth!!Lo!L!11! users being not nor­mal, and a pre­sump­tion of “nor­mal­ity” for broad­band being in line with Telstra’s prod­ucts in Aus­tralia), but things change. I’ll stream video on the web with­out think­ing twice now: that wouldn’t have hap­pened any­where near as much 18 months ago. I’m get­ting used to a crappy media expe­ri­ence in a 3″ box on my 17″ LCD, heh. Hav­ing said that, I’m about to go down­stairs and watch an ~8″ video I down­loaded, on a 42″ screen… and it’ll look fine! (Stu­pid widescreen lame-resolution/dual-link DVI-not-supported piece of junk that it is).

I’ve got a server run­ning per­ma­nently here now, and Big­pond uploads count. That wouldn’t have mat­tered in the past, but I’ve pushed between 1 and 2GB of traf­fic from it in the last month… so it’s a con­tribut­ing fac­tor to the prob­lem of being 800MB over quota at present.

Exe­tel are look­ing good to me at the minute (and their Vodafone-resold mobile plans look pretty awe­some, too… a part of that is that they’re pre­sented sen­si­bly in a table, rather than spread across mil­lions of pages with pro­mo­tional crap — as per every large tele­phony provider in Australia).