Dave1

The IT nerd in me tells me you have made a wise choice. I hate Telstra, but I think the HTC is better than the iPhone. I reckon the HTC Dream is better again - but only available through Optus. It's an Android phone. Google's own phone Operating System. But given the applications available for it, the iPhone is awesome for this reason alone.

Something to try You could download "The Dude" from here: MikroTik Routers and Wireless Set it up to monitor 2 things - Your modem's IP address and a website IP address (eg. 66.102.7.99 for Google). You will see when you lose connection with just the internet or your modem. Alternatively. If it fairly reliably goes down, go to a command prompt (Click Start ==> Run and type "cmd", then click "OK". type in "ping" and the IP address of your modem to see if you get a reply from it. If you do get a reply, there isn't an issue with your computer talking to your modem, then try pinging google if you don't get a reply you know it's an issue with your modem connecting to the net. This is what it looks like when you successfully ping something: C:\>ping 172.16.74.254 Pinging 172.16.74.254 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 172.16.74.254: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255 Reply from 172.16.74.254: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=255 Reply from 172.16.74.254: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255 Reply from 172.16.74.254: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255 Ping statistics for 172.16.74.254: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 8ms, Average = 2ms Here's what it looks like when you can't ping something: C:\>ping 172.16.74.253 Pinging 172.16.74.253 with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 172.16.74.253: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), If you want to continually ping something add "-t" at the end. eg. ping 192.168.1.1 -t To stop it, press Ctrl+C