Whirlpool

This business is an awesome Australian company that offers great products.

They describe themselves as:
Community-run site focusing on broadband Internet access. Industry news, provider plan comparisons, knowledge base and discussion forums on cable, DSL ...
Whirlpool started as a pun on the name of Telstra's BigPond cable Internet service. However, it soon expanded to cover Optus' Optus@Home cable Internet service (now known as OptusNet), ADSL based services, and other forms of broadband in Australia as they became available.
The website undergoes occasional re-designs; the most recent re-design included a new logo and was implemented on 3 April 2008.
A significant part of the site is the Broadband Choice facility. Its database of over 10,407 services from 196 providers (as of 6 December 2011) makes it the most comprehensive list of Internet plans and prices in Australia.
Broadband Choice allows a user to find options available to them and to filter them by features such as price, speed and usage limits.[12] In most cases, details about Internet service providers (ISPs) and their plans are maintained by staff of each ISP, which are then editorially approved by Whirlpool. A few ISPs, such as Telstra, are maintained by Whirlpool. Small or niche ISPs who are unaware of the website or are uninterested in submitting their plans may not be listed.
The purpose of the forums is to provide a place to discuss broadband and related areas (such as networking). Representatives from many Australian service providers, hardware vendors and merchants use Whirlpool as a strictly non-official support and communication channel.
Some features present on other message boards such as signatures, avatars and in-line images have been excluded by design to keep the site 'clean'. Many of the long term users agree that despite some shortcomings, Whirlpool's differences are beneficial to the forum, and set it apart from "pre-written" forum software.[13]
Whirlpool uses an 'open moderation' policy, so when threads and posts are deleted or moved, placeholders are left allowing users to see the moderation that has taken place. This is different from other forum software, where deleted threads may simply disappear from view, and posts may be edited by moderators unbeknownst to users. As a result, any moderation is more obvious than on most typical internet forums, which use off-the-shelf software like phpBB or vBulletin.[14]
The forum also has very few off-topic areas (known as 'lounges'), which are generally only available to long standing or highly active members of the community.[15]
Until recently, Whirlpool's servers suffered from capacity issues, which were handled by 'cooling down' the server when load exceeded capacity. The cooling down message was affectionately known as a TSOD (Teal Screen of Death, a play on the Windows BSOD) and become part of the forum culture. Whirlpool now has ample server capacity, consigning TSOD messages into history.[16]

To see more about this awesome business, visit
  http://whirlpool.net.au/