Martin Kealey wrote:
Given the relative sizes of ISPs, it's probably also true to say "most DSL netizens use xtra".
Them's fighting words... or they would be if I was in the marketing dept.
Well having had some experience dealing with ADSL issues, I'd say that if you have DSL you have it going through a telephone network. Either that infrastructure is provided by Telecom or Telstra (who I beleive have a DSL offering these days, but I know nothing of it). If its through Telecom phone lines and your ISP is anything other than Xtra, then when you have problems any fault report is likely to get you into a runaround with the ISP blaming the Telecom lines and Telecom blaming the ISP. It can take a while to get either of them to acknowledge responsibility or even to talk to one another to figure out where the problem is. Well, it did a couple of years ago... have things improved? Even if your ISP is Xtra its still problematic, but nowhere near as bad as if you have a different ISP.