https://secure.dodo.com.au/wireless/PlanSelection.aspx

you can elect to have a “no contract” deal, which means you can cancel after one month I guess. Not strictly a pre-paid download amount, but fairly close.

Having said that, we found Dodo awful to deal with when we wanted to cancel our internet connection. No end of grief.

The free modem is worth a fair bit, clearly, so I don’t think you’re out of pocket.

So what speeds do you get? I use http://speedtest.net/ to measure speeds BTW …

Just goes to show that I should have ‘asked Troppo’ before buying my Optus Package, as I would have been fine with their $30 per month package – then again Optus threw in the modem, so it’s much of a muchness.

I don’t see any non monthly plans though.

I use ’3′ wireless broadband as my principal internet connection from home and find the speed more than adequate. I typically get 1.6 Mbps (megabits per second).

Telstra have upgraded their network to support 7.2 HSDPA download speeds I believe, so this might be the difference in speed?

You can get broadband by the gigabyte, they just don’t advertise it a great deal. For instance, Dick Smith sell Dodo branded 3G USB modems and a non-Dodo customer can buy 3GB for $60 (not sure if that has to be used within a month or not). I was sure ’3′ did a similar deal but they seem to have a per-month fee but I suppose you can sign up and then cancel after only one month …