Re: Fibre

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers, aus.electronics
Subject	Re: Fibre
Date	2016-12-24 03:58 +1100
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"Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 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.

> when we were allowed to use Optus I changed.

I do use them for mobile, or more strictly amaysim who resells them.

> 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.

> 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.

> 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.

> 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.

> 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.

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