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Re: crackly line

From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups aus.computers, aus.comms
Subject Re: crackly line
Date 2015-07-26 05:49 +1000
Message-ID <d1i7icFqi58U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <mossb1$74i$1@speranza.aioe.org> <dJ-dnTPyg-HPni_InZ2dnUU7-VWdnZ2d@westnet.com.au> <movo12$6tm$1@speranza.aioe.org> <d1h7erFifpmU1@mid.individual.net> <movpne$ad5$1@speranza.aioe.org>

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"Max" <max@val.morgan> wrote in message 
news:movpne$ad5$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>
> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:d1h7erFifpmU1@mid.individual.net...
>>
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>> "Max" <max@val.morgan> wrote in message 
>> news:movo12$6tm$1@speranza.aioe.org...
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>>> "John G" <john.g@green.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:dJ-dnTPyg-HPni_InZ2dnUU7-VWdnZ2d@westnet.com.au...
>>>> Max was thinking very hard :
>>>>> I know someone with a crackly phone line and also a ADSL connection 
>>>>> which drops out from time to time.
>>>>
>>>>> What could be the cause?
>>>>
>>>> Anything. :-?
>>>> Lodge a call with you provider and follow their process.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's Bigpond, so you get taken through an hour long script with someone 
>>> from the Philipines and then it gets 'escalated' to another 1 hour long 
>>> script with someone else,
>>
>> Doesn't take anything like that when the
>> droid can hear the crackling themselves.

> The complaint is an internet connection that drops out so you get the 
> standard internet connection script.

The complaint should be about the crackling because
the droid can obviously hear that for themselves.

>>> then they send someone out who checks the lines and says something like 
>>> "Get a new router" or "Get new line filters".

>> And someone like me tells that goon that it can't be the cause
>> of the crackling because its still there with none of that on the
>> line and they realise that they'll have to fix the actual problem.

> The guy says the telstra thing in the ground down at the road is water 
> logged.  Could that be the cause?

Yep.

>>> I have told the bloke to get on to NBN satellite.

>> More fool you.

> They are phasing out the copper network so it's the only way forward.

Not SATELLITE it isn't.

>>> At least then you don't have any issues with a bad line.

>> You are stuck with pathetic data limits.

> 250GB is alright.

You don't get that with the SATELLITE service.

> Only 24/7 TV streaming would break that limit.
 

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    Re: crackly line "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-24 19:54 +1000
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      Re: crackly line "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-07-25 18:51 +0800
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