Best deal ADSL2+

1. What is the best value ADSL2+ plan there is there in Australia?

I have shortlisted best value ISP plan based on the length of contracts:
I try not counting the off peak period as for some ISP off peak period can be from 3am to 7am (Different ISP has different time) which is useless for most people. Unless if you do lots of download in off peak time.

This are based on minimum spent – setup fee, monthly fee and minimum phone line charged to give a holistic view of best plan. Assumption: will bundle for best price and those without bundle are usingTelstra $20 phone line.

How much bandwidth download do I need?

 

I have just started getting into ADSL or also called Broadband and there are so many ISP out there – which one have the best deal? As I moved from Dial Up service to ADSL.

So I spent hours researching and finding out what are some of the ISP offering and are they offering the same thing but different brand and cost?

Here are some information that I have gathered.
For residential, generally most ISP offer 2 types of ADSL: the old ADSL (ADSL1) and the new ADSL2+

So which one is better? ADSL vs ADSL2+? Essentially, the difference between the two are the speed range and technologies used. In the nutsehell:
ADSL1 usually have fixed theoretical maximum speed such as 256kbps, 512kbps, 1.5Mbps or 8Mbps.
So, when signing with a particular ISP, there is a specific plan depending on the speed. such as 256plan with 10GB allowance, or 512plan with 10GB allowance and etc.
For ADSL2+ however, it has a range of really slow to the theoretical maximum speed up to 24Mbps. its plan usually be upon how much download allowance plan.