So - order a phone line and try again? If it is an consolation, I live in West End which has special South Brisbane Fibre (Telstra Velocity). When you order fibre they come out, instal fibre and the NTU.
The tech then plugs a butinski into the fibre NTU to check he has dial tone and then tells me the service is installed. Only in Telstra land is a new fibre service tested by dial tone on an NTU. (oh and when he left, I had no Internet - that takes another week). David On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 at 09:39 Greg Low <g...@greglow.com> wrote: > 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 <+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 10:27 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 <+61%20417%20189%20363> > -- David Connors da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | https://t.me/davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363
