Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / April 2006

Hi all,

I'm looking to change to broadband now that the daughter has discovered the joys of
the iTunes music store.

I currently have one of those phone/dial-up internet plans with the free local calls
from Optus, and it has been pretty good so far.

The thing is, I work away from home during the week and need to access my account
where I stay. I can do this easily with my existing dial-up account. But I won't be
able to do this with a broadband account. My requirements aren't that high usually,
and the speed jump would be nice, especially for downloading the aforementioned
music and such (11 hours to download an audio book last month).

So, is there possibly some company that offers a broadband connection with a free
dial-up account at a reasonable price? If I'm to pay for the extra downloads (400mb
limit), then I may as well get something better.

I don't want the extra expense of another account for my work place, it would be
false economy.

Any ideas?

Wayne.