Apparently my mistake was asking Telstra for an Internet connection. If you do that, they send an Internet tech.
If I'd asked for a simple landline, they would have sent a telephone tech. After the telephone line was in place (even though I didn't want one), the cable installation would have become a "simple" one rather than a "complex" one requiring trenching, as the phone guy would have connected the conduit the required extra 1.5 metres. Telstra wanted $4,100 to connect from a brand new conduit, to a pit 1.5 metres away. The phone tech who was working at the pit the other day told me that was F@@#$@#$ ridiculous. If I'd ordered a phone line, he would have just connected it. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com |http://greglow.me *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Connors *Sent:* Thursday, 4 January 2018 10:27 AM *To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> *Subject:* Re: [OT] Internet use on 4G LTE Don't have a friend with line of site within 20klm of you do you? We changed our office link over to a ubiquity based microwave service a while ago - hasn't missed a beat. Both dishes/radios together were worth < $500. On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 at 09:21 Greg Low <g...@greglow.com> wrote: Unfortunately, getting Telstra to connect cable to our new place turned out to be a nightmare. They were beyond incompetent. And now, because it suddenly became an NBN area, they can't do it at all. And NBN Co have the 6 – 9 month delay for new connections. So we're stuffed. Telstra mobile broadband charge outrageous amounts for data. We use them on a shared plan with 32GB per month. But for general data at home, we're using an Optus mobile broadband plan. ($140 per month for 280GB). It was the only thing we could get working that had any chance of working. I avoided the "come in spinner" Optus options that peak out at 12M download speed and went for the normal one. Mostly I get around 18M down and 25 up (curiously). Dropouts pretty regularly, but last night, barely any data moving. I also checked out getting fibre connected. Free installation at present with my 426 metre infrastructure shortfall. But the prices for 3 years (minimum contract) were: 10M/10M – around $26,000 20M/20M – around $38,000 100M/100M – around $364,000 They are with 1:1 contention though. But I decided that I was after a connection to a house, not a house. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 <+61%20419%20201%20410> mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 <+61%203%208676%204913> fax SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com |http://greglow.me *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Connors *Sent:* Thursday, 4 January 2018 10:13 AM *To:* ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> *Subject:* Re: [OT] Internet use on 4G LTE On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 at 09:12 Greg Low <g...@greglow.com> wrote: I've often seen 90M down and 45M up on my laptop on Telstra 4G LTE. But ask me about my Optus mobile broadband last night where I couldn't even get 1M down… Telstra really is the only game in town for mobile broadband if you want performance (unless you never leave the CBD). David. -- David Connors da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | https://t.me/davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363 <+61%20417%20189%20363> -- David Connors da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | https://t.me/davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363
