Hello First off a warm welcome to UWA (: You'll definitely find a lot of malaysians staying around here xD

As about accommodation around UWA, i have to warn you that it's fairly hard and pricey to find accommodation right around campus due to the demand from international students. As Onelove mentioned, there are student residential hostels, but i really really wouldn't recommend them because they cost a bomb and aren't really that nice (though a good option if you like to meet a lot of people and desperate to find a place)

I recommend trying realestate.com.au to find a house around UWA. the area's named "Crawley" and "Nedlands". Alternatively, you can try to google earth and see where UWA is and a few other suburbs that are just like 1 bus away from university, for example i know people staying at cottesloe (around the beach).

Another alternative which might be quicker to settle down, might be looking for accommodation in city apartments. There are a few around which a few of my friends managed to find. Though they are a ted bit pricey, they have better cost-worth value compared to the houses around UWA. They are around 20 minutes to UWA and really near the city!

Hope that it all helps (: With that aside, what course are you going to be attending there?

mmhmm, it's by bus Oh, i might just see you if you head to UWA then I'm helping out in the international business school orientation program. I'm doing a double degree in law/com, so feel free to ask if you have any queries =]

Hi Treble Welcome to Perth in advance Where are you going to study?

As onelove89 pointed out, i personally have received a letter from iinet about torrenting.

(pardon the talk about illegal torrents here, i'm in no way supporting people to download torrents, but merely discussing about my previous acts which i myself am responsible to)

As shown, most of the isps have been having a hard time handling with all these copyright issues and court decisions, they'd probably wanna start easy with a smaller state-based internet provider before going after big firms like Telstra and Optus.

Btw, i don't think they'll know that you download from megaupload or any other direct download website cause it only shows traffic between your ip and the website, as for torrent, they're specific in what content they have.

As for the letter that i've received from iinet, it was like a second-day release download (dl-ed something the day after it was released). I would assume that iinet received a complain from these companies (content + ip), and iinet merely forwarded it to us, thus no subscriber information to right holders released (which i reckon would trigger a large court case by thousands of users against their privacy over their internet traffics).

LOL, it's way more dangerous out there than Malaysia xD Just keep safe while facing issues like this.

Will try my best to get a copy of the letter by the weekend cause it's in my friend's (who registered for the internet) mailbox.