I've used TPG at 3 different houses and it's been dodgy at times but overall not that bad. If you just want internet connectivity and the ability to download for cheap it's the way to go. That being said, I think getting naked through them is more painful. You need a Telstra line which they then disconnect, which I think will incur a disconnection fee if it's within the first few months of a telstra contract. I think it was Internode who can do a brand new naked dsl setup, maybe if your house ever had a line.

+1 TPG 60/60 plan

their adsl 2 offering was the only service available at our exchange. we were very hesitant because we had heard so many horror stories about TPG and it really sucked when we found out that our new house was over 4 kms from the exchange. on top of this we were moving from optus cable so we were expecting a massive drop in terms of latency/bandwith.

but - they smashed all of our expectations. installation was simple and easy, their techs were helpful in the initial stages and their website is handy as it lets you see what stage of the process they are up to.

gaming pings are amazing and aren't anything like what we were expecting, they have only gone up about ~5ms on average compared to our previous cable connection. bandwith is solid and consistent, i have never seen it drop below 850KB/s on private linux iso distros.

all things considered, they are really cheap and provide what i consider a really good service for the price.

yeah going thru the iinet line fault process at the moment

for some reason they needed two different subcontractors to come out and test the line to confirm that it is crap

now it goes to telstra for them to look at the actual line but i'm not holding my breath (and i'm directly across from the exchange)

Might be worth checking out Exetel if its available, ive been with them for 12months and can't fault them. I pay $55 for 24on 60off ADSL2 Naked, includes 100 free national calls per month and the speeds are awesome. Uploads dont count aswell :)

One downside Ive heard the tech support is average but if you have half a clue should be fine.

Might be worth checking out Exetel if its available, ive been with them for 12months and can't fault them

They throttle P2P from what I understand. May be a deal-breaker for some?

Might be worth checking out Exetel if its available, ive been with them for 12months and can't fault them

They throttle P2P from what I understand. May be a deal-breaker for some?

Protocol Encryption in your favourite P2P program more or less stops this from being a big issue ( ive known 2 friends that have used exetel).

Protocol Encryption in your favourite P2P program more or less stops this from being a big issue

It may also stop some clients from being able to communicate with yours, as not all of them support encryption (less connectable clients = potentially slower speed). However, it would still be better than completely throttlage.

For sure, its by no means perfect but better than nothing.

Ive heard about this P2P throttling and am yet to experience it, popular torrents average around 1-1.4mb/s down and consistent 90k/s uploading. Although I am within a stones throw of the exchange so that helps. Speeds above have been during peak and off-peak times also.

If you care about online gaming go Internode. (You'll find everything that's legal pretty much quota free anyway, best latency to games)
If you care about downloading and nothing else go TPG (Large quota's make up for having nothing quota free)
If you care about a bit of both go iiNet. (Pretty good downloads with no slowdown during offpeak leach time, and very little downtime, completely acceptable pings).

Its a pretty simple basic rule. There are no times you should ever go Telstra or Optus. Not even if you have your mobile tv and home phone with them.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/744693543.png

I have another pro to iiNet, it seems their usage meter broke sometime at the start of the week and the 24Gb of ISOs I downloaded were put into my "Freezone" usage - woop woop.

Although I am within a stones throw of the exchange so that helps.

All that helps with mate is how high your adsl connection syncs at (aka your maximum possible download per second).

Usually the limiting factors in a torrent download isnt so much your maximum possible download per second (adsl sync) but rather the number of people sending to you and of course the speed in which those people can send to you at.

iiNet cause they made my 25/50 gig plan into 60/60 for no extra charges

Usually the limiting factors in a torrent download isnt so much your maximum possible download per second (adsl sync) but rather the number of people sending to you and of course the speed in which those people can send to you at.

i can see you are new to private tracker sites