300/100 $70 including GST with pay monthly mobile discount of $10

Edit: 2degrees

If value for money if a prime consideration, then a 50/10 (soon to be 100/20) plan has its merits for a lot of users.  A potential problem is if you are uploading large files/backups to the cloud (although QoS might be able to mitigate the impact to the household).  The Sky fibre basic plan is $55/m for the first 12 months, and then $60/m

Linux:

 

300/100 $70 including GST with pay monthly mobile discount of $10

 

Who are you with?

tim0001:

 

If value for money if a prime consideration, then a 50/10 (soon to be 100/20) plan has its merits for a lot of users.  A potential problem is if you are uploading large files/backups to the cloud (although QoS might be able to mitigate the impact to the household).  The Sky fibre basic plan is $55/m for the first 12 months, and then $60/m

 

You raised a good point. I do use my NAS for file syncing and then back it up to idrive. I probably should have mentioned this earlier. I am not sure what the minimum upload should be.

@Brend 2degrees

Chorusnz:

 

Just a friendly reminder that Bandwidth =/= Speed. Unless you are doing enough that it ends up capping out the available bandwidth, causing a bottleneck.

 

The whole point of having different plans with different bandwidths is to be able to offer a range of price points for low, mid and high users.

 

If cost is your biggest factor, maybe have a think about if you can drop down to a lower plan? For most households 300/100 would be adequate. And if you find its causing issues, well you can always jump back up with a simple plan change.

 

^Richard

 

👍 This is pretty much my thinking already. Drop down on a cheap plan (prolly Mercury as we have elec already with them - hope their service is decent) and then see how it goes