While many good sons and daughters spent yesterday honouring the women who gave them life, there was another, slightly geekier celebration happening as well, as Internode celebrated its 20th birthday. Happy Birthday, Internode!
Consistently rated as one of the countries most loved ISPs, Internode was brought kicking and screaming into this world by Simon Hackett on May 8, 1991 after turning down a somewhat lucrative job offer in Silicon Valley.
On its path to adulthood, the ISP has not only grown to become one of the country’s biggest ISPs, but also one of the most innovative. As well as driving ADSL and wireless technologies forward in its home town of Adelaide, Internode was also one of the first companies to roll out ADSL2+ services, has been leading the way in the transition to IPv6 and brough the joys of the Chumby to Australia a couple of years back.
So, while it’s still quite early on a Monday morning, join us for a virtual toast for Internode on its successes leading up to its birthday yesterday.
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Sam Sweeney
Monday, May 9, 2011 at 9:45 AMI’ve been with Internode for several years and I love them.
Great support, great deals, great company.
Keep up the good work Internode!
Norgan
Monday, May 9, 2011 at 9:54 AMIn my opinion Australia’s best ISP on all counts, there is no other choice. Well done Internode and look forward to many more great years of service.
np
Monday, May 9, 2011 at 12:26 PMI considered Internode when my lasty contract came to an end. I can´t understand peoples blind loyalty to this company. They were not the cheapest, fastest nor most generous… I ended up using TPG and have found their $50 ADSL2+ unlimited deal to be the bees knees. So please someone explain it… what is it that makes the tech heads at Whirlpool as well as other sites so keen on this company?
AvvY
Monday, May 9, 2011 at 5:56 PMI’d say their rock solid service. In 5 years of using them, I’ve never had any problems with the service, it’s incredibly consistant. I’ve heard of more wide spread issues with many other ISP’s including TPG – which was a factor in me not switching despite the more attractive pricing/plans.
There are probably a number of more reasons, but that would be top for me.
edward co
Monday, May 9, 2011 at 9:46 PMI’m with Internode and the adsl connection kept dropping out. After 2 long sessions of over the phone support (where they called back my mobile so I didn’t stay on hold) there was no solution so they express posted a loan router to me. Some comparison tests proved my old router was slowly dying but the line was ok, so they gave me the choice to either return the loan router in the prepaid express pouch or I could buy the loan router straight away.
I can only remember 1 other support call or problem in 5 years of consistant quality and uptime.
Belated Happy Birthday, Internode.
Glen
Monday, May 9, 2011 at 6:01 PMConsider this, when I move I get a new 12 month contract and pay $0 to transfer to my new place. At the beginning of last year the best connection i could get was 1500mbs since then on the easy plan it has been upgraded to 8000mbs and finally around 1600mbs all without me requesting it, paying for it or having to do anything to get it. One day it was just faster. That is service and no none of it has been migrated to Internode DSLAMs. The 2 times (in about 8 years) I have needed to call Internode they have responed quickly and professionally.
Sure I could get more quota for the same amount of money but I don’t limit what I do online and very rarely reach the quota anyway.
Luke
Monday, May 9, 2011 at 7:53 PMI know what it is… In the very rare occasion i had to call internode i got an Australian, i could understand him, he was professional and he helped me fix my problem (which turned out to be a planned telstra maintenence at my exchange)
I know its small but those things all count, ok it might be a bit more expensive but in my opinion and probably the opinions of all Internodes customers, its worth the extra money.