{"id":6332,"date":"2013-10-26T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T00:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2013-10-27T19:56:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T08:56:38","slug":"looking-at-alternative-isps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/looking-at-alternative-isps\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Alternative ISPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a few issues with our TPG internet connection lately mainly related to congestion in the evenings which is when we tend to use our internet connection most. I&#8217;ve reset and tweaked our ADSL modem numerous times in an effort to fix things up which has been an interesting exercise to say the least. For the time being, I&#8217;ve found a partial solution in capping our outbound internet traffic to 80% of the connection speed. I&#8217;ll have to see how well this works as we head into peak period again.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it can&#8217;t hurt to look at other options just in case the problems persist and at the moment the following ISPs are on the shortlist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iiNet,<\/li>\n<li>Internode,<\/li>\n<li>Jiva (a no frills brand of iiNet),<\/li>\n<li>Telstra BigPond (specifically cable internet).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am weighing up the various pros and cons of each including download\/upload speeds, static IP address availability (IPv4 and IPv6) and bundling options. I am not really too concerned about the quality of technical support as I can do most of that stuff myself.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you want to share experiences with me about your current or past ISPs then feel free to share as it has been a while since I&#8217;ve checked things out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a few issues with our TPG internet connection lately mainly related to congestion in the evenings which is when we tend to use our internet connection most. I&#8217;ve reset and tweaked our ADSL modem numerous times in an effort to fix things up which has been an interesting exercise to say the least. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/looking-at-alternative-isps\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-isp","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Network-Icon.png?fit=256%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}