Cro Flower Power Lifetime Members 6,114 Member For: 22y 9m 8d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 02/01/04 06:05 AM Share Posted 02/01/04 06:05 AM What options are there for power, water and gas down there?The only one I know of is ACTEWAGL..I need to start getting things organised.Also what form of PayTV is down there (not including TransACT as my street is not cabled)?Any help would be appreciated. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/8277-attn-canberians/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCofOZ Member 40 Member For: 22y 2m 22d Location: Canberra Posted 02/01/04 07:21 AM Share Posted 02/01/04 07:21 AM ACTEW AGL is who I use dont know other (think there is one though)Foxtel on satellite (had it installed last week) Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/8277-attn-canberians/#findComment-78205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falchoon I see red Member 5,758 Member For: 22y 7m 2d Location: nowhere in particular Posted 02/01/04 07:42 AM Share Posted 02/01/04 07:42 AM I can tell you Dodo dial-up internet for $10 a month is good...well as good as dial-up gets! Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/8277-attn-canberians/#findComment-78210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrasH Bloody Orange Team (BOT) Donating Members 872 Member For: 22y 26d Gender: Male Location: Canberra, Australia Posted 02/01/04 08:02 AM Share Posted 02/01/04 08:02 AM Foxtel Sat for payTV, ACTEW AGL are the only canberra electricity, water, gas providers (although I think great southern electricity or whatever are more/only commercial).Depending on where you're moving in, ADSL can be an option. If your cabling is under ground, you may be lucky aswell. Telstra are fixing (is there such a thing) these issues as we speek, adding minimux's everywhere. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/8277-attn-canberians/#findComment-78214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XR64T Are we there yet? Donating Members 703 Member For: 21y 9m 18d Gender: Male Location: Sydney, NSW Posted 02/01/04 08:25 AM Share Posted 02/01/04 08:25 AM I am not from Canberra, but I know Country Energy supply services to the ACT (used to be called Great Southern) as I used to support their network.Has power been de-regulated in all of Australia? If it has, then you can get your power from anyone at all, just shop for the best deal. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/8277-attn-canberians/#findComment-78221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ms700 Moderating Team 10,170 Member For: 22y 5m 17d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 02/01/04 10:54 AM Share Posted 02/01/04 10:54 AM The best advice for someone moving to the ACT? Dont! Canberra sucks! One of the hottest towns when it is summer, one of the coldest towns when it is winter. The strangest climate I have ever heard of........The only good thing about the ACT is its locality. It is only 1 and a half hours to the bay, and 2 and a half hours to sydney.Canberra is that boring, me and Ross are driving to Tumut tomorrow for something to do!!!! (no offence rob!) :lol: :lol: Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/8277-attn-canberians/#findComment-78246 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrasH Bloody Orange Team (BOT) Donating Members 872 Member For: 22y 26d Gender: Male Location: Canberra, Australia Posted 02/01/04 10:17 PM Share Posted 02/01/04 10:17 PM Canberra isn't THAT bad. I like the climate. It's almost exactly like where my parent's came from, on the adriatic coast of Croatia Especially great in the winter for making prusut (known as prushuto to most). Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/8277-attn-canberians/#findComment-78323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigH Member 100 Member For: 22y 6m 19d Location: Canberra Posted 02/01/04 10:26 PM Share Posted 02/01/04 10:26 PM Come on Mick...Canberra is not bad at all.The climate is fine...Hot but no humidity, and great in winter whenb there is no wind....:-)As for driving to Tumut for Fun...well..."say no more"Asfor Foxtel Pay TV, Cro, you will find the satelite picture quality far better than Fox cable used in most capital cities as it is a digital service.Keep in mind that Foxtel will also be revamping their services towards March with many more channels and a fully end to end digital delivery for all subscribers.Regards Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/8277-attn-canberians/#findComment-78329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrasH Bloody Orange Team (BOT) Donating Members 872 Member For: 22y 26d Gender: Male Location: Canberra, Australia Posted 02/01/04 10:38 PM Share Posted 02/01/04 10:38 PM (edited) Come on Mick...Canberra is not bad at all.The climate is fine...Hot but no humidity, and great in winter whenb there is no wind....:-)As for driving to Tumut for Fun...well..."say no more"Asfor Foxtel Pay TV, Cro, you will find the satelite picture quality far better than Fox cable used in most capital cities as it is a digital service.Keep in mind that Foxtel will also be revamping their services towards March with many more channels and a fully end to end digital delivery for all subscribers.RegardsI have foxtel, and they are wankers. In early October, HRT (Hrvatska Radio Televizija aka Croatian Radio Television) started providing a free sat stream for 4 locations around the world. Europe, North America, South Amirica and Australia & New Zealand. For Australia they use the same sat as Foxtel (Optus C1). We were able to setup the Public Buoquet so that we can watch this by pressing the TV button on the foxtel remotes and choosing the public bouquet or the Foztel one. The only thing foxtel is improved, is to change the sat boxes abilities. They made the boxes unable to have more than 1 tune setting, therefore stopping the use of the public bouquet. That's their only "improvement". Oh well, I guess I'll have to buy my own sat box for the Public bouquets, and just piggy back off the foxtel sat dish. That is ofcourse if foxtel decide/have made this impossible by not allowing a passthrough on their box :(Oh and the March improvement is an increase in price.Almost forgot. the Sat is digital, has always been. The foxtel streams are mpeg 2 you know. Edited 02/01/04 10:40 PM by KrasH Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/8277-attn-canberians/#findComment-78333 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ducatijb Lifetime Members 3,448 Member For: 22y 3m 15d Gender: Male Location: sydney Posted 02/01/04 10:51 PM Share Posted 02/01/04 10:51 PM Canberra is that boring, me and Ross are driving to Tumut tomorrow for something to do!!!! (no offence rob!) :lol: :lol: Thanks for letting me know Buggerlugs,would have been in Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/8277-attn-canberians/#findComment-78336 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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