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"F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Rod Speed wrote:
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>>
>> "F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:58ce1c0a$0$29530$c3e8da3$c8b7d2e6@news.astraweb.com...
>>> Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:58cd1abc$0$38651$b1db1813$2411a48f@news.astraweb.com...
>>>>> Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:58cccd30$0$39518$b1db1813$7968482@news.astraweb.com...
>>>>>>> Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "F Murtz" <haggisz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>>>>>>> felix wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Just wondering if anyone has gone with them? are they as good as
>>>>>>>>>> they
>>>>>>>>>> say?  TPG speed on the 25 mbps plan has dropped from 23mbps to
>>>>>>>>>> around
>>>>>>>>>> 17mbps since I started with them a few months ago, and just
>>>>>>>>>> recently I'm
>>>>>>>>>> getting buffering with movie streaming. I guess more ppl in the
>>>>>>>>>> area are
>>>>>>>>>> now on the NBN causing the speed drop? or would it be just a TPG
>>>>>>>>>> thing?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Fairly consistent,
>>>>>>>>>  http://www.speedtest.net/result/6137869801
>>>>>>>>> About 300 to 400 metres from node.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You're better using speedtest.myrepublic.com.au
>>>>>>>> to see if there is significant sagging due to time of day.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just rang myrepublic to enquire about my working phone without a
>>>>>>> working telephone number( they have me down as having been ported 
>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>> my old number does not work even though the phone works)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That’s because outgoing works before incoming
>>>>>> works with the ported number that happens later.
>>>>
>>>>> Well I may not get the old number,
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, it looks like you might well have lost it. Tho from
>>>> memory I think you said that you don’t care if you do lose it.
>>>
>>
>>> The bloke a few days ago told me to get telstra to turn it on again
>>
>> I'm not sure that they can actually do that. Now that the NBN is 
>> available,
>> they can't actually provide you with a new adsl service anymore and
>> presumably they cant provide you with a new POTS service either.
>> And the copper pair doesn’t even go from the exchange to the house
>> anymore, so there is no copper pair to do that on anymore.
>>
>> And even if they could for example use the spare pair that is able 
>> between
>> the pit and the house with most houses, that will cost you $300 to use
>> that.
>>
>>> but talking to telstra is a drama so I told him to give me a new
>>> number but when I rang yesterday I got a girl who told me my number
>>> and it was my old number
>>
>> Does it actually ring the phone plugged into the modem when
>> you call it tho ?
>
> No I seem to be able to ring out, at least it rings my cellphone

What caller ID showed on the mobile ?

> but I did not answer and have a conversation with my self

Yeah, you can end up blind that way.

> ( maybe I should ring someone)

Too radical by far.

> If I ring it from cellphone using old number it does not ring  just says 
> it is disconnected.

That person has just used your old number as the caller ID for the
outgoing calls. Your old number hasn’t been ported to MR yet.

I got the same config for a while until they decided
that they couldn’t port the number to MR,

> It is getting odder by the minute,I just rung brother from phone attached 
> to modem he answered and said his cellphone said I was calling from my old 
> phone number,then I hung up and he rung my old number and was told it was 
> disconnected, then rung my cell to tell me.

That fits with what I said they have done.

>>> (they will get it right eventually)
>>
>> They havent with mine. I just got an email from them last week,
>> copied to the TIO, saying that my number is gone and that there
>> is nothing MR can do about that. Havent had anything from the
>> TIO about that email yet tho.
>>
>>>>> they had my number as being my old number and she rung it and
>>>>> presumably got the same message that I get (optus advises that the
>>>>> number you have dialed has been disconnected)
>>>>
>>>> I got that a couple of days after the cutover.
>>>> Before that it just rang out just after the cutover.
>>>>
>>>> My neighbour who also moved from dodo to MR didn’t
>>>> get that result, their number kept ringing out for weeks
>>>> and has now been ported successfully.
>>>>
>>>> Mine was a little unusual in the sense that there was no
>>>> record of a phone or adsl service to my address at all,
>>>> even tho I have had the phone service for 45+ years
>>>> and the adsl service for 15, That may have been why
>>>> I got a different result to what the neighbour got.
>>>>
>>>> Its now not even visible on the Telstra LOLO system that is
>>>> what's used to observe and change the status of POTS lines,
>>>> particularly listing them as disconnected and active.
>>>>
>>>> When MR tries to port the number from Dodo the port
>>>> request has been denied repeatedly now, about 5 times
>>>> over a few weeks.
>>>>
>>>> They eventually told me that I had to tell Dodo to do a
>>>> CDNO or PSTN on the LOLO service to make the line
>>>> active again so it can be ported to MR. A supervisor at
>>>> Dodo said that they couldn’t do that when I told them
>>>> that that is what MR had told me to tell them. Not that
>>>> clear why they couldn’t do that, whether they could just
>>>> use LOLO to observe the status of line and whether they
>>>> can actually use LOLO to change line status.
>>>>
>>>> Now another supervisor has said that my number is no longer
>>>> visible on the LOLO system and that is why they can't do anything.
>>>>
>>>> The first supervisor did ring Telstra Wholesale, Dodo resells Telstra,
>>>> and was told that my number has been returned to Telstra and
>>>> that there is nothing that can be done to port it to MR now.
>>>>
>>>> I find that hard to believe and have to the TIO on the job but
>>>> havent got a result on that yet. Been with them for a month now.
>>>>
>>>> MR keeps claiming that Dodo must have cancelled the phone
>>>> service but I don’t believe that because Dodo specifically told
>>>> me not to close the Dodo phone and adsl accounts until the
>>>> number had been ported to MR otherwise I would lose the number.
>>>>
>>>>> She said that they would email me with the number on monday (same as
>>>>> the other bloke said three days ago,) (he said tomorrow)
>>>>
>>>> That did work for me, they did email me a new number and it works fine.
>>>>
>>>> Problem is that it’s a Sydney number which is no use to
>>>> people in my town who need the number to be a local call.
>>>>
>>>> MR can only provide new numbers in the capital citys and the total
>>>> fuckwit of a supervisor in MR with a first name of Karpil didn’t even
>>>> understand the concept of local calls and couldn’t understand what
>>>> the problem was with the new number. Presumably he's a Singaporean
>>>> and that is the reason he doesn’t understand the concept of local 
>>>> calls.
>>>>
>>>>>>> I asked her about speed discrepancy between speed tests (did not
>>>>>>> expect her to know) but she did say they was a slowing effect 
>>>>>>> because
>>>>>>> of ADSL and fibre being together and when the ADSL connections went
>>>>>>> things would speed up.
>>>>
>>>>>> That mangles the real story. That isnt the reason for the difference
>>>>>> between speedtest.myrepublic.com.au and speedtest and speedtest beta.
>>>>
>>>>> She said she does not know why they are different,
>>>>
>>>> They are different because different servers are used.
>>>>
>>>> You can see the server used on all but speedtest.myrepublic.com.au
>>>>
>>>> And the beta has some other quirks too.
>>>>
>>>> Your ping is very low, what do you get with
>>>> speedtest.myrepublic.com.au ?
>>>>
>>>> Mine is always about 35ms.
>>
>>> From my republic about 100 , from speedtest.net round 11 or 12
>>> sometimes more.
>>
>> Weird. No idea why that is happening. Maybe something weird with the
>> myrepublic configuration of their system in Sydney. Shouldn’t be 
>> possible.
>>
>>>>> she added the other bit about speeds
>>>>
>>>>>> There is certainly a coexistence period of around 18 months when the
>>>>>> signal
>>>>>> levels used by the node are half what they will be once the
>>>>>> coexistence
>>>>>> period is over, and that may well see the speeds increase with those
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> you that are a decent part of a km away from the node in total cable
>>>>>> distance.
>>
>>
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  Re: myrepublic NBN F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-17 19:59 +1100
    Re: myrepublic NBN "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-18 04:23 +1100
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          Re: myrepublic NBN F Murtz <haggisz@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-18 22:32 +1100
            Re: myrepublic NBN "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2017-03-19 05:30 +1100
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