As of yesterday, customers on Internode's current home and small office plans will get download limit upgrades of between 15 to 37 percent at no extra charge.
Optus has removed downloads made in the early hours of the morning from caps under the Unlimited and Unlimited Pro high-end broadband plans, the company said today.
The dream of broadband without data limits is set to slip through Australians' fingers, as countries like the UK start to wave goodbye to their own uncapped plans.
More than half (54 percent) of computer users admit to using someone else's Wi-Fi without permission, according to research.
Australia's broadband may be better than you think -- according to a survey of over 50,000 users in the country, the average connection speed is now around 5.5Mbps.
It's been 345 years since physicist Robert Boyle published the experimental results confirming what is now known as Boyle's Law, which to paraphrase is: a gas will spread out to fill any available space.
When broadband providers offer packages that you think look to good to be true, you're rarely disappointed.
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?
It must be nice to view the world through rose-coloured glasses as Communications Minister Helen Coonan seems to.
Since last November when iiNet very loudly launched its naked DSL product, "naked" has been on everybody's lips, and it seemed like everybody was in on it. Some, however have held out. This round-up of 13 ISPs looks into who's got it, who doesn't and who wants to.
Budget concerns, complicated infrastructure, and user frustration are all reasons to move away from a fat-client networking strategy. Here's a compelling argument for using thin clients.
Telstra is set to announce a large corporate deal with PricewaterhouseCoopers for its mobile business broadband service.
Is Australia leading or lagging in the broadband stakes? Well, it depends on who you ask.
Imagine you come home on a Friday evening after a hard week at work and simply want to spend time watching a movie you choose with your family.
Adobe's Media Player is an excellent application that is beautifully designed and easy to use. Shame about the currently available content.
The TA612V is a solid unit that provides a low-cost way to make VoIP calls. It is a good choice for a household or small home office where users are keen to cut their telephone bills.
High-speed mobile broadband has arrived! We compare Telstra's BigPond Wireless Next G service with Vodafone's HSDPA-enhanced 3G network.
Fancy a 1.3Mbps broadband pipeline direct to your notebook, without a cable in sight? The new BigPond wireless data card makes good on Telstra's lofty promises for its Next G network.
3's new mobile broadband card is almost a no-brainer: It sprints along on 3's current 3G network and will kick into overdrive following the 3.6Mbps HSDPA network overhaul, slips into notebook ExpessCard and PC Card slots and to top it off, has exceptional pricing plans.
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