Online!

It's taken a while, but we're now finally online at home. The internet here isn't as straightforward as back in the UK. There don't appear to be any deals with unlimited downloads quotas and you have to read the small print to find out what you are signing up for.

Some companies include both uploads and downloads in their limits and others split the limits over peak and off-peak times.

After studying all the options and reading reviews I decided to get the home phone through iinet and the internet through TPG. The internet is advertised as 50GB download limit per month, however that limit is split between 25GB peak (7am-1am) ans 25GB off-peak (1am-7am) so, effectively, it's only 25GB unless I want to get up really early. I guess I'm going to have to start working out ways to automate my downloads overnight.

We did have an annoying issue with our address when getting the broadband connected. We live right on the border of two Sydney suburbs and the phone company had our address in one suburb and the internet company had our address in the other. Luckily, it was sorted after a couple of emails and our broadband is now connected.

The speed is pretty good too. Speedtest.net reported speeds of around 10MB-15MB, which is a lot more than I was getting in the UK. I had a really good Skype video call with my sister back in the UK - it was great to see and hear her.

So, at last we're reconnected to the world - it feels good...