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Post by johnno on May 4, 2016 16:16:57 GMT
Since April 14th I've been having major problems with my ISP and it's still on going, having no connections on all my devices, drop outs, slow connections as low as 0.03mbps, cannot even load a web page at times when it should be 100mbps, Only to be told now this will continue till October due to upgrading the system, today I'm in luck I'm getting 6mbps, so gave customer services a tinkle threatening to leave them and they offer me a cheaper package price plus a loyalty payment every month plus a reduction on out of service payment till its fixed. The money payback is ok but it's still doing my bloody head in
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Post by Dragon Man on May 4, 2016 16:26:25 GMT
No good John. I totally understand. Our new broadband system in Oz is rubbish and sometimes we lose internet for 12 hours ata time, regularly. Then it will come back on, we check all our messages, answer posts, etc and BAM! gone for another 12 hours. This has been going on for two years now. It's getting worse lately with similar to what you get: slow connections, drop-outs etc.lately it has been dropping back to old Dial-up speeds or not opening sites at all. Unfortunately we have to put up with it because the incoming government refused to use Optic Fibre that the outgoing Government had already started laying and has already paid for, so we are still on the old copper wire system and it is failing badly. I can empathise with you. The only thing I've been lucky with is that it has only cut out twice during my years of broadcasting.
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Post by johnno on May 4, 2016 16:38:56 GMT
What have they got against fibre optic's? maybe the cost of replacing it. Quite a lot of the rural places here are still on copper wire but is slowly been upgraded to fiber optic. with my ISP every time they do a upgrade they also do a price hike even if it doesn't effect you, robbing $%%^&
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Post by Dragon Man on May 4, 2016 16:50:22 GMT
John, the cost wasn't a Problem because the outgoing Labor government had already allocated the Money for it, it was approved in Parliament, and the Fibre Optic System was already under construction. Then the Liberals won the next election, stopped the optic upgrade immediately and spent the money elsewhere. I have also just read today that our current Prime Minister (also Liberal) has just approved the purchase of a further 1800 kilometers of new copper wire to continue building the broadband network in copper. Isn't it nice to know our Government is leaping into the 21st century and embracing technology. NOT!
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Post by howie1 on May 4, 2016 22:55:55 GMT
Political point here so dont read if you dont want to see a rant ....
It's sad but the Aussie CSIRO dudes had a lot to do with early wifi, and 2G, 3G etc, and of course the technology went overseas for us to buy back after giving those overseas countries the benefit of developing companies to manufacture it all and employ people etc. (Yet we keep seeing every Govt of every political persuasion tell us they want us to be the smart country ... !!!). But when the labour govt announced how ever many billions it was going to cost to cable the country, and told us the reasons were the very long distances and areas with no-one and no towns in between just a few major centres, I wondered why they weren't giving just one billion of the many billions, to the CSIRO dudes and the whole country going wifi 4G or better. No cables to ever maintain. Having lived out west in my state, I know pretty much the whole of rural Queensland is whats called "black soil" country. And every time it rains it swells up and breaks stuff which is underground. All phonelines, major water pipes are above ground due to that. So I wonder how the fibre will go!!! lol. Plus when it rains out there, it is usually the first rain for years and many times a flooding rain. And those floods destroy roads, bridges etc so again wonder how the fibre is going to fair?
And as Ken points out ... the Lib Govt has wound back the fibre so now its 1920's style copper!!!!!!! If I could swear on this forum I would!!!
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Post by johnno on May 5, 2016 1:48:09 GMT
2.20am and only just got back on the net since my last post early Virgin media leads the way as far as broadband speed is concerned for households at the moment it's 300mbps but every year they upgrade it higher. Virgin are now upgrading the system to go beyond 300mbps with this cable which looks like copper so maybe your country is doing the right thing by holding back
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Post by johnno on May 5, 2016 2:08:27 GMT
Here's a small company that at the moment I think they are only in 2 cities/ town's
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Post by johnno on May 5, 2016 2:09:39 GMT
Here's a small company that at the moment I think they are only in 1 town
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Post by Dragon Man on May 5, 2016 6:31:45 GMT
wow, those amazing speeds John!!!!!!! Yeah Howie, we could go totally wireless Broadband. Anything but ancient copper. No John, the copper wire the Government bought is nothing like that. It is standard old style telephone line copper.
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Post by Rick in NWArk on May 5, 2016 14:15:12 GMT
Dunno how they can call themselves Virgin with what they do to customers.
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Post by Dragon Man on May 5, 2016 14:48:16 GMT
Dunno how they can call themselves Virgin with what they do to customers.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2016 11:46:24 GMT
I'm stuck using 4g, no phone line in house. My gripe is during the day as more people connect the sliver of bandwidth you have to use gets narrower and narrower until the net is crawling, measured in kilobytes.
Could you imagine if a shopping center said we're going to reduce the size of car parks, we will fit more in??? A car need x amount of space and so does a stable connection...telstratards didn't like that analogy when i rang em to complain, but they keep selling more 4g devices without upgrading the towers/servers. If you only have room for 10 thousand people, well, put up or shut up telstra. But being rural in qld,its Telstra or 'we are sorry, your call could not be connected' doh.
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