Message-ID: <6888043a@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Minor Update - ATT Wireless Internet - SOME Issues Solved Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <106515s$1qlv3$4@dont-email.me> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20250707 ("Helmsdale") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 29 Jul 2025 09:14:02 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 31 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70045 c186282 wrote: > The jungle republic of the USA .... > > They probably get better 5G in Ethiopia than > a get at my location - and it's NOT 90 miles > out in the cow-farms. Out in the cow-farms of Australia It's lucky to get any G since they turned 3G off. 4G is bloody useless for coverage, and the telcos just openly lie about the fact. Though weirdly my decade-old modem seems to work better with it than anyone's modern 4G/5G mobile phone even though it doesn't support the new lower frequency band. My home phone is still connected by analogue copper in the ground. When it was broken for a month while the telco couldn't be bothered sending someone to look and see that the power was off at the phone exchange, trying to use mobile instead was completely hopeless. No signal inside, only in the right spot outside, and the signal bars on phones now mean almost nothing. I've got line-of-sight to the phone tower and it used to work fine right up until they switched off 3G. In reponse the Gov said they'd introduce nation-wide coverage via Starlink. But the tower is way closer to me (~5-10Km) than the atmosphere between me and an LEO satellite, with none of the size/power restrictions. How could it possibly work better? Typical political BS. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#