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"Max" <max@val.morgan> wrote in message 
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> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> "Max" <max@val.morgan> wrote in message 
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>>> "John G" <john.g@green.com> wrote in message 
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>>>> 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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crackly line "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-07-24 16:17 +0800
  Re: crackly line John G <john.g@green.com> - 2015-07-24 19:20 +1000
    Re: crackly line "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-24 19:54 +1000
    Re: crackly line "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-25 20:41 +1000
      Re: crackly line "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-07-25 18:51 +0800
        Re: crackly line "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 05:49 +1000
    Re: crackly line not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2015-07-26 00:05 +0000
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        Re: crackly line "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-07-27 13:34 +0800
          Re: crackly line Jeßus <ask@chevron.com> - 2015-07-27 16:41 +1000
  Re: crackly line "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-24 19:54 +1000
  Re: crackly line Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-07-25 00:56 +0800
    Re: crackly line "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-25 04:26 +1000
      Re: crackly line Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-07-28 08:42 +0800
        Re: crackly line "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 17:34 +1000
  Re: crackly line Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2015-07-26 13:21 +1000

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