Re: Fibre

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers, aus.electronics
Subject	Re: Fibre
Date	2016-12-24 16:27 +1100
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"Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 14:33:46 +1100, "Rod Speed"
> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>"Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:oqbr5cdbkpe2gnhvcd5srdas74r1d5cjtc@4ax.com...
>>> On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 03:58:54 +1100, "Rod Speed"
>>> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:khvp5cpmp2v0mv50ln65322qovspm6bv1j@4ax.com...
>>>>> On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:32:24 +1100, "Rod Speed"
>>>>> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>"Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>news:dflp5ch316bdgl22r51r503bcs24lbc0m1@4ax.com...
>>>>>>> On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:16:17 +1100, "Rod Speed"
>>>>>>> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It does appear to be available today at my place.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I was originally planning to stay with dodo until my contract ran
>>>>>>>>> out,
>>>>>>>>> 8 months @ $24/month break fee. Not attractive in the long term,
>>>>>>>>> myrepublic.net is much better value for 100/40 unlimited, $60, 
>>>>>>>>> dodo
>>>>>>>>> wants $100 for that. Dodo will allow you to change to the NBN with
>>>>>>>>> no contract penalty, but that involves a whole new 2 year 
>>>>>>>>> contract.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Dodo's retention people could only offer me $95/month but were
>>>>>>>>> happy to halve the break fee to just $99.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I signed up with myreplublic.net, but that froze on the final
>>>>>>>>> screen.
>>>>>>>>> Rang them, but have now been on hold for 25 mins.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>They did eventually answer the phone, had no record
>>>>>>>>of the online signup so I signed up on the phone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I only found FttN was available by checking online
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Mate of mine found a big Telstra van down the main street today
>>>>>>and asked them when it would be available. He said today in half
>>>>>>the town and a couple more weeks in the other half.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> About a month later letters started arriving from ISP's of offers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>We've been having those for months now, mostly from iprimus and
>>>>>>someone else I can't remember. None from dodo or telstra tho even
>>>>>>tho I have used both in the past and currently use dodo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also had problems for Telstra to give me correct bill always over
>>>>>>> charged by around $10. Took them months to give me a TV modem
>>>>>>> which I use for programs I miss not paying for any Netflix etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Havent used them for more than a decade now. I did use them
>>>>>>when adsl first showed up, basically in case there were problems.
>>>>
>>>>> Well I hated Telecom to ring across the road was a toll cal (046) to
>>>>> (02)
>>>>
>>>>That's not true. When that was across the road, it was still a local 
>>>>call.
>>
>>> Didn't aply to me in Campbelltown?
>>
>>Yes it did.
>>
>>>>> when we were allowed to use Optus I changed.
>>
>>>> I do use them for mobile, or more
>>>> strictly amaysim who resells them.
>>
>>> Now with NBN freecalls becoming a norm,
>>
>>That is not correct. You pay extra per month for that.
>>
>>> something must change even better?
>>
>>What ?
>>
>>>>> Problem here is like all bureaucracies they can't or won't
>>>>> fire dickheads instead they sent them to Sydney's furtherest
>>>>> outpost. A legacy of this was bodged copperwire instalation.
>>
>>>>The NBN is being done by contractors.
>>
>>> Who is doing Turnbulls FttN copper to home?
>>
>>Dunno, ours used largely unmarked Avis rental vans.
>>
>>The bigger trucks used to dig the holes that the nodes
>>are above, in the green metal boxes, were also unmarked,
>>presumably also rented.
>>
>>>>> While waiting for phone in 80's to be installed they would
>>>>> park near the pub all day. When it was pissing down with
>>>>> rain they might show up to apoligize that it was too wett.
>>
>>>> Didn't get that with the recent FTTN installation.
>>
>>> This was the culture of Telecom in those days.
>>
>>Yeah, contractors make one hell of a difference.
>>
>>>>> The house was wired while being built and no reason why
>>>>> the phone should not of been ready when we moved in.
>>
>>>> When I was building my house in the very early 70s,
>>>> the buggers would keep digging up the street with every
>>>> new phone service, always on Saturday at overtime rates.
>>
>>> That's when they came to my place when it was raining to say to wet
>>> to dig. Then you would see the truck with digger parked near the pub.
>>
>>>>> With the phone we got it was crackly and pretty bad even for modem.
>>
>>>> Mine was fine. I have had a couple of failures in those 45 years
>>>> now,  but all were back in the exchange, not the street lines.
>>
>>>> And one of them was fixed by a contractor on saturday morning too.
>>
>>>> And they did a free diversion to my non telstra mobile while it was 
>>>> down
>>>> too.
>>
>>> Nothing to congratulate Telcome in my area.
>>> All flamproof couldn't be fired!
>>
>>>>> Seems everyone was complaing, the local paper gave the email address
>>>>> of a service manager (but had to sign up to Telstra) who selected his
>>>>> own "techs" who found my phone wired wrong in less than 10 minutes.
>>>>> This was after years and 1000's of "techs" who never fixed my bad 
>>>>> phone
>>>>> connection (like Jehovah witness knocking at your door all the time)
>>
>>>> Yeah, some faults like spurs can remain for ages until
>>>> someone with a clue works out what the problem is.
>>
>>> Pissed me off and I'm not the only one.
>>
>>Yeah, there will always be some stuck with them.
>>
>>Just went out to talk to the monkeys in Telstra van
>>parked in the main street this morning. He said that
>>those they signed up yesterday when it was there
>>got a start date of 3 Jan for their FTTN service.
>
> Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Rod.

Thanks, same to you and all the other denizens in here.

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