I,m with Dodo, which is $19.95 for 1 gig, and they throw in an 8inch eeee pc when you sign up for 2 years. The only problem is its optus carrier, but seems to work in most towns.

I use Telstra stick which is included on our home phone account. 3gig $30. Altogether phone account is around $70 per month. That's on a 2 yr plan. Quite expensive. You can get a prepaid stick but not sure of costs.

We have a Telstra Bundle. For $30 dollars a month you receive 3 gig, smaller bundles are available. Your mobile phone is the modem and there is no contract. You can travel for a few months, ring up and switch it off and next time you need it, they switch it on again.

This is, without a doubt, the best and cheapest option we found and also the best coverage is with Telstra. We chose 3 gig because we run a business and also wanted to upload photos. Never went over it once.

thanks guys we are with internode at home 49.95 a month untold downloads hubby u tubes heaps i download music and also watch u tube but was interested in the travel part so thank you

Hi i use telstra prepaid as we are on the road all the time i find this gives me the best coverage i pay $150 for 4gb and that gives me 180 days before i have to top up.

I use Telstra Wireless Mobile @ $39.93 per month. I can't remember how many bytes, but it slows down when I meet my limit, which hasn't happened yet in 3.5 years.
If you have next G mobile phone you will have internet.
The other services are limited, and you will have less range than Telstra/Bigpond, mostly because they lease space off Telstra.
Optus does have some of its own service and once again the others lease space off them.
You may be travelling away from cities and major centres, and you have to bear this in mind.
I've just done Cairns to Adelaide, and Barrow Creek was the only place I didn't have wireless mobile internet or mobile phone. I had this service at every other town or road house I parked at.
Considering where I've been, that's very impressive.
You could do mobile wireless prepaid with Telstra.

i have telstra bigpond on our travels, 7 gigs @ $59
but have internode at home, which im quite happy with,
bigpond also works where my optus mobile wont..
so we skype when out of mobile range

ps if using more than one laptop on the road you need a wifi thing that your
usb modem can plug into and you can have your own wifi to use with while on the road

-- Edited by milo on Monday 22nd of November 2010 12:10:33 AM

Hi all,
What's the speed like when using telstra 3g. I was told it was about 7mbs is this true.
thanks

we left telstra of optus some 2 years ago. were told by the saleman that we would have no great problems with coverage.

january/february this year we spent 6 weeks in tasmania. we are now back with telstra. yes a bit dearer but at least you get coverage and can use it. with optus we we had no coverage in tasmania except hobart launceon but still had to pay.


brian & kerry

I'm with Telstra, have a wireless stick 3 Ggs for 29.95. Use it at home too so its my permanent and only connectrion.
Someone asked how fast is it. Don't ask me figures but it is immediate, nothing slow about it.
Have a trelstra package which totals 90.00 a month for home phone, internet and mobile phone all in one bill.