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| Pros: The internet connection was a good speed and reasonably reliable. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cons: Support, billing methods, glitches in their system, conflicting information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: The internet was great, however DoDo will only do direct debit or credit card, unless you want to pay extra for a statement, and then on the date they inform you the payment will be coming out, they do not attempt to withdraw it, and then charge an overdue fee and disconnect the service. It is very hard to get through to someone who can actually understand english clearly, even if the person can speak the basics well enough. Basically, unless you have a creditcard and are willing to call the bank and Dodo monthly to ensure that an attempt and deduction have been made I wouldn't choose to go with Dodo again. I am refunding the modem and start-up kit I am that unhappy with them. |
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| Comments: Was Over charged for my relocation but after contacting them (via phone) they took the difference off my next bill so all is good |
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| Pros: the package is great - when it works | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cons: 30-40 mts wait when you call the support line. No customer friendly system to resolve urgent issues like my phone not working for over 5 days - not yet resolved. IINET does not seem to realise how important it is to have at least phones working in a family. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: I signed up in Feb 08 and within about 6 weeks my telephone and internet has been down for over 5 days now. IINET could not tell me when it will be back. There is no "customer service charter/guarantee". You are put on hold for over 30-40 minutes each time you call them on 132258(try it). Still waiting for my phone/net to be fixed. I am locked into a 24 month contract. If I could get out of the contract without penalties, I would think quit seriously about it, considering the poor service and almost zero updates. Very poor for a communications company. I have managed to speak to the support line three times and sent three emails. I am still waiting for a "Responsiblie customer relations Manager" to call me. AM NOT IMPRESSED AT ALL. |
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| Pros: Static IP, Stable connection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cons: Customer support sucks, Relocation and plan change is very expensive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: Overall I am very unhappy about TPG’s customer support. This month I have moved my home from Melbourne city to Malvern. I have asked TPG to relocate my DSL connection to my new address but they ware unable give me same service (ADSL2+) in my location because no TPG Exchange is unavailable in this my area . But as I am in the yearly contact and they are going to charge my credit card. No mater the service available or not. I don’t know if it is legal. I have decided to pay TPG 300 and something for rest of the contract and move to iinet for better service. |
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| Pros: Always up (no downtime) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cons: Behind a proxy for connection, ports blocked, Google problems, Instant Messaging problems, No FTP at all, 12 month contract | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: Behind a proxy for the connection: We were not informed about this on their website. Told we were getting a static IP address, instead we get a shared static IP address (because of the proxy). Proxy causes problems with Google searches (checks to validate if we are human). Just an inconvenience. Slow speeds for what we pay for (around 100KB/s. we should get at least 150KB/s in a speed test). Ports Blocked: Need to use port 80 (HTTP method) for some instant messaging programs. FTP does not work AT ALL. This is a major inconvenience. 12 month contract with all of these problems. Technical support, whilst not contacted yet, does not allow phone support for these problems (I was going to call the other day about these issues). The fact that I am not allowed to call for these issues indicates poor technical support to start off with, as I have never been with an ISP in the past that hasn't allowed phone technical support for these issues. Phone support is just easier for both parties, as there is instant feedback, and not everything will work at first. Whilst, as I said, I haven't got onto tech support yet for these issues (because I can't ring), these issues should never exist in the first place, and are a first impression. We = I am one of many users for this connection. My dad pays for it, but I am the heaviest internet user in the household. |
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| Comments: I'm only writing this review to balance out the fake ones that you can guess who entered. You can tell that they're fake from the praises of aanet's customer service. I've been with aanet for 5 years (and looking for a change ASAP). Initially I was happy with them they were cheap and reliable, but customer service didn't exist even then. The reason for my leaving is that they put me on a more expensive plan without me requesting it. I bundled my long distance calls and another time recommened aanet to a new customer and in both cases they only discounted the first couple of months instead of until the expiry of the contract. Someone else mentioned the extra-extra charge for moving and the $20 for a new password - it's all true. Stay away from them! |
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| Pros: reliable connection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cons: dishonest money grabbers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: Before I moved houses, I clicked on the aanet webpage agreeing that it will cost me $100 extra. After this the following charges appeared on my credit card account: on the 19/12/07 $174.90 and another transaction on the same day for $65 and on the 17/12/07 there was a transaction of $29.90. I was explained that as my original contract hadn\'t been expired they charged me the $100 PLUS the joining fee of $145. So I paid $245 for staying with them in the new place. Now I wanted to check if this was in the fine print, but couldn\'t log on to my account. My password seemed to have changed. To get a new one issued I have to pay $20. I could be accused of forgetting my password, but it was written down and it still works for my webmail. They can\'t be reached by phone (I challenge you to find a number on the website) and they take forever by email. My friend was supposed to get a discount on his account as a commission for promoting aanet to me, but after 3 months they stopped applying the credit. I could go on, but this much should be enough. |
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| Comments: this review just like kevin's is really about exetel - the one appearing as a criticism of aaNET is NOT correct and has been altered by someone but here goes, and Aida and I say it again, exetels 'customer service' is nothing short of farcical - their idea of a complaining 'cutomer' is to .... terminate their agreement! yep, true!! DO NOT sign up for this guff ladies n gents |
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| Comments: customer service is the worst I have ever experienced in an Australian company since my days in either India or more recently the UAE - it appears that departments have no contact with each other all, they insist on you completing a problem ticket while responded to you by email (not accepting replies that way), close \'tickets\' without any request for customer satisfaction and ABSOLUTELY refuse to either call you to resolve anything or even provide you with a number for you to call them! automated responses back to your email are the most commonly used means to \'resolve\' problem tickets. Incorrect invoices have also been recorded and STILL not rectified, bandwidth figures do not support their advertising - I will be changing from this most unprofessional isp at the end of this current charging period - disgraceful |
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| Cons: Customer Service, technical support, and service | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: Astratel is a very expensive service which is not that fast, I had the most expensive plan but it was still slower than telsra and other ADSL\'s. They also have no customer service at all, if we call them they dont pick up the phone and dont do anything to resolve our problems. I am extremely dissatisfied with that service and wouldn\'t recommend it to anyone. |
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| Pros: Fast, reliable | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cons: more expensive than competitors | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: I went with iinet as my friends recommended it for its speed and reliability. I believe that there are cheaper deals out there though. All in all I am very happy though. I am prepared to pay a little bit extra for a quality product. |
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| Pros: It\'s not dialup.... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cons: Tech support is atrocious | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: Took them 12 months to advise me that ADSL was not ever going to be available to me due to a split line. 4 months to install cable after that. Frequently down speeds are no more than up to twice that of dial up. Tech support phone queues are consistently over 20mins wait time. Tech support staff are poorly trained and often give flat out WRONG advice.... one of them even asked me to reformat my harddrive to get better speeds........................... Overall I\'m very dissatisfied with Telstra and if there was another ISP that could bundle my business telephony needs, that was available in my area (underground cabling is not my friend) then I would change in a heartbeat! |
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| Pros: Very Good uptime of Network | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cons: I have had a positive experience with iPrimus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: I have the Primus One Bundled option, all my local telephone calls are free and that suits me fine. The Broadband is always working when i need to use it, i have rarely had problems with this company. |
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| Pros: uptime | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cons: support, very poor speed 50% of time | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: I would strongly advise people not to join this ISP as there is virtually no support availble eg extra long waits on phone with vague responces , many e-mails go unanswered and sometimes a couple of weeks with dialup speeds while everyone waits for extra bandwidth to be purchased. |
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