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Mobile phones and internet, when we arrive!


mwjw

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Hi,

 

After a bit of help around getting mobiles and internet to call home, until we get a long term rental.

 

Know we can get pay as you go phones at the airport, can we get pay as you go wifi usb's and what kind od data/plans have people used that were sufficient for Skype etc?

 

Mike

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Hi like you we rented to start with so got a standalone wifi modem, so that we could connect multiple devices. We only used it as you say for facebook / skype etc. It worked well for us, we generally spent around $30/month, which isnt alot in reality. We had one from Virgin, and just topped it up as required.

 

There are plenty of options out there.

 

Nick

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Go to Dick Smith (aussie Currys) buy a Vivid ViviFi, take it home and call them to set up your account, within 20 minutes you can have unlimited broadband with resonable speeds, not great spreeds, but enough for two people to be on skype at the same time, half the price of telstra or vodafone and its completely rechargable and portable, can connect up to 5 devices, just check the coverage first, some parts of Mandurah arent covered

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Hi , we have been here for 7/8 weeks and loving it!!

we bought a portable modem to use the internet in our 'holiday' rental( form telesta). now we have moved to a long term lease we have gone with telestra again. some people say it is more expensive but to honest we were so tired of sorting everything else (driving lesince, schools, long term rental) I didn't mind paying over the odds to be connected within a week. we have gone with the unlimited option and calls to UK for 150 a month, might seem expensie to some but worth it to us to stay in touch with family and let kids use computers with out worrying.

 

Where are you heading to?? let us know if you are south of the river and we can help in any way, jen

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