Telstra cable broadband
For those using Telstra Cable Broadband, there is a general maintainable outage at the moment. Seemingly widespread. On their website, they are saying normal service will return at 15:00 today. I must have missed their heads up email alert letting their loyal customers know about the pending outage. For those with teenagers, you might see them appear from their bedroom for a change; sullen and with an air of slight desperation as their world has shut down. Tim Sent from my iPhone -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Telstra cable broadband
Oops My error The outage is for next week Maintenance event State: Western Australia Service:Broadband Cable Description:Some Broadband Cable services may be unavailable. Time start: 18-10-2012 10:00 Time end: 18-10-2012 15:00 Must be some other reason mine is not working this morning. My voice phone lines are crackling but that shouldn't affect the cable I would have thought. Tim Sent from my iPhone On 13/10/2012, at 9:12 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: For those using Telstra Cable Broadband, there is a general maintainable outage at the moment. Seemingly widespread. On their website, they are saying normal service will return at 15:00 today. I must have missed their heads up email alert letting their loyal customers know about the pending outage. For those with teenagers, you might see them appear from their bedroom for a change; sullen and with an air of slight desperation as their world has shut down. Tim Sent from my iPhone -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121013/9a1e91d6/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Telstra Cable
On 10/11/2009, at 9:36 AM, Tim Law wrote: Has anyone had experiences with Telstra Cable internet and Mac households that are worth me knowing about? I have to agree with all the comments posted by Cable users. In my experience (pretty much since they made it available) download speeds are excellent. Upload speeds are excruciating. My account quotes an upload speed of 128Kb/s. I have never achieved anything close to this. Fortunately, few if any of things I do on the net require a fast upload speed (I did try hosting a multiuser iChat session once, which failed miserably, but where I do lose out badly is with Back To My Mac. My home upload speeds make it barely useable), but if you do have need of decent upload speed the current iteration of Telstra Cable is not for you. Of course, if you lived in Sydney or Melbourne, things would be different. You could pay more for twice the upload speed, but that's not available here. But twice the speed of molasses is still the speed of molasses (substitute any word you like for molasses...) Despite download speeds, however, every other aspect of the service is first class. Even support, on the rare occasions that I've had to use it, is friendly and efficient once you get past the stupid robot thingy. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Telstra Cable
Hello, I've signed up to move to Telstra Cable internet as their deal came out a bit cheaper than iinet, and I was seduced by 'indications' of 70mBs. It's using the same cable that was laid in my street a few years ago by Foxtel. We used foxtel for a short while, so their box is on the wall and I expect the hard wiring install shouldn't be too hard. They will install a wireless router with four ethernet connections. I have been very happy with iinet's speed and service and there is more than a touch of anxiety about moving to Bigpond and their administration. I've got 2 PowerPC Macs on airport running 10.5.8 and one iMac PowerPC on 10.5.8 that will need an ethernet cable to the new router, or they will provide a wireless USB dongle to suit. I've also go a PC laptop running XP. Has anyone had experiences with Telstra Cable internet and Mac households that are worth me knowing about? Thanks Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Telstra Cable
Fixing something that wasn't broken, huh? Your anxiety may be well founded Tim. I've been with Bigpond cable (now Cable Extreme) for 7 + years (2 houses) and look forward to moving to iinet. The 70 megs a second is theoretical. Unlike ADSL, one shares bandwidth with those in your area who use cable. If they all watch Foxtel, you won't get theoretical speeds. I get 19 Mbps at best. Normally 9.83 Mbps (depending on which mirror you test with). Macs are no issue, what is an issue is upload if you want to host a server or do a lot of video conferencing. Upload is crippled for some reason (there is no need for it to be) compared to ADSL 2+. Their silly heartbeat system went away recently. It was a pain. Telstra support will be a challenge. Be prepared to be on hold and cope with the brain-dead voice recognition system. And it seems cable support (should you get a human) are all in Manila, so a few words of Tagalog can't hurt :-) Of course, all of above only my experience. perhaps others having glowing reviews? Best of luck. On 10/11/2009, at 11:36 AM, Tim Law wrote: Hello, I've signed up to move to Telstra Cable internet as their deal came out a bit cheaper than iinet, and I was seduced by 'indications' of 70mBs. It's using the same cable that was laid in my street a few years ago by Foxtel. We used foxtel for a short while, so their box is on the wall and I expect the hard wiring install shouldn't be too hard. They will install a wireless router with four ethernet connections. I have been very happy with iinet's speed and service and there is more than a touch of anxiety about moving to Bigpond and their administration. I've got 2 PowerPC Macs on airport running 10.5.8 and one iMac PowerPC on 10.5.8 that will need an ethernet cable to the new router, or they will provide a wireless USB dongle to suit. I've also go a PC laptop running XP. Has anyone had experiences with Telstra Cable internet and Mac households that are worth me knowing about? Thanks Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Telstra Cable
Tim, I have just had an experience not worth dying for with Telstra. I'll not go into details, but I found that Telstra and Bigpond are ( or seem to be) managed separately. After days on the phone it was fixed and the key help point was Multiple Services these people could see both phone and internet accounts simultaneously. They were excellent. And the speed claims are no more than that.I was promised 20MB/ s.Its rarely above 10, if its school homework time, less. But that also depends on street hardware and distances. Bill On 10/11/2009, at 9:36 AM, Tim Law wrote: Hello, I've signed up to move to Telstra Cable internet as their deal came out a bit cheaper than iinet, and I was seduced by 'indications' of 70mBs. It's using the same cable that was laid in my street a few years ago by Foxtel. We used foxtel for a short while, so their box is on the wall and I expect the hard wiring install shouldn't be too hard. They will install a wireless router with four ethernet connections. I have been very happy with iinet's speed and service and there is more than a touch of anxiety about moving to Bigpond and their administration. I've got 2 PowerPC Macs on airport running 10.5.8 and one iMac PowerPC on 10.5.8 that will need an ethernet cable to the new router, or they will provide a wireless USB dongle to suit. I've also go a PC laptop running XP. Has anyone had experiences with Telstra Cable internet and Mac households that are worth me knowing about? Thanks Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Dr Bill Parker EDITOR Solar Progress Australian Solar Energy Society m: 0403 583 676 e: edi...@anzses.org w: www.anzses.org -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Telstra Cable
Thanks Stephen, Fixing something that wasn't broken, huh? Yup :-\ http://www.ozspeedtest.com/ shows Your line speed is 8.24 Mbps (8242 kbps). Your download speed is 1.01 MB/s (1030 KB/s). Via my current iinet account. Tim On 10/11/09 9:54 AM, Stephen Atherton sather...@asia.apple.com wrote: Fixing something that wasn't broken, huh? Your anxiety may be well founded Tim. I've been with Bigpond cable (now Cable Extreme) for 7 + years (2 houses) and look forward to moving to iinet. The 70 megs a second is theoretical. Unlike ADSL, one shares bandwidth with those in your area who use cable. If they all watch Foxtel, you won't get theoretical speeds. I get 19 Mbps at best. Normally 9.83 Mbps (depending on which mirror you test with). Macs are no issue, what is an issue is upload if you want to host a server or do a lot of video conferencing. Upload is crippled for some reason (there is no need for it to be) compared to ADSL 2+. Their silly heartbeat system went away recently. It was a pain. Telstra support will be a challenge. Be prepared to be on hold and cope with the brain-dead voice recognition system. And it seems cable support (should you get a human) are all in Manila, so a few words of Tagalog can't hurt :-) Of course, all of above only my experience. perhaps others having glowing reviews? Best of luck. On 10/11/2009, at 11:36 AM, Tim Law wrote: Hello, I've signed up to move to Telstra Cable internet as their deal came out a bit cheaper than iinet, and I was seduced by 'indications' of 70mBs. It's using the same cable that was laid in my street a few years ago by Foxtel. We used foxtel for a short while, so their box is on the wall and I expect the hard wiring install shouldn't be too hard. They will install a wireless router with four ethernet connections. I have been very happy with iinet's speed and service and there is more than a touch of anxiety about moving to Bigpond and their administration. I've got 2 PowerPC Macs on airport running 10.5.8 and one iMac PowerPC on 10.5.8 that will need an ethernet cable to the new router, or they will provide a wireless USB dongle to suit. I've also go a PC laptop running XP. Has anyone had experiences with Telstra Cable internet and Mac households that are worth me knowing about? Thanks Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Telstra Cable
I've been on Telstra Cable for around 10 years. I don't have any tech problems any more. Downloads can be pretty fast but uploads are slow which is bad if you Skype videoconference. The major problem is the cap. 12 Gb doesn't allow much and I see deals advertised everywhere even on the backs of buses with ISP's with more. I would change for those two reasons. But an advantage is that it doesn't require a phone line which I don't need. Brett Tsunami No cap on our sushi On 10/11/2009, at 9:36 AM, Tim Law wrote: Hello, I've signed up to move to Telstra Cable internet as their deal came out a bit cheaper than iinet, and I was seduced by 'indications' of 70mBs. It's using the same cable that was laid in my street a few years ago by Foxtel. We used foxtel for a short while, so their box is on the wall and I expect the hard wiring install shouldn't be too hard. They will install a wireless router with four ethernet connections. I have been very happy with iinet's speed and service and there is more than a touch of anxiety about moving to Bigpond and their administration. I've got 2 PowerPC Macs on airport running 10.5.8 and one iMac PowerPC on 10.5.8 that will need an ethernet cable to the new router, or they will provide a wireless USB dongle to suit. I've also go a PC laptop running XP. Has anyone had experiences with Telstra Cable internet and Mac households that are worth me knowing about? Thanks Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Incompatibility between Airport Express/Extreme and Telstra Cable Broadband?
Go here http://curmi.com/software/mac/launch/ install this on your primary mac and this will keep your bigpond cable connection alive. I have just taken advantage of Telstra's recent offer of free Cable (not ADSL) Broadband connection. This was installed this week and I have configured it so that one of my PowerBooks shares the cable connection wirelessly. It all works fine. Nevertheless, I would like to have all PowerBooks portable, and take advantage of AirTunes, so I visited the Nedlands AppleCentre to enquire about purchasing Airport Express or Extreme. I was told that, due to some issue with Telstra firewall (?), Airport Express/Extreme was incompatible with Telstra Cable (not ADSL) Broadband and that, apparently, a DLink wireless base-station was required (as they had resolved the incompatibility problem). I found this puzzling since it was trivial to set-up one PowerBook to share the Cable Broadband. I did a brief web search but could not find out more about this problem. Any pointers? Cheers, Paul -- Paul Abbott Phone: +61 8 6488 2734 School of Physics, M013 Fax: +61 8 6488 1014 The University of Western Australia (CRICOS Provider No 00126G) 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AUSTRALIAhttp://physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul God IS a weakly left-handed dice player -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. - Miguel de Unamuno It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works)
Attention Telstra Cable Users
After much pain and anguish, I have found a router that supports Telstra's Heartbeat authentication. This means that you can get rid of that nasty Launch!/Heartbeat software and use a hardware router, that supports connections sharing. It also includes a 4-port ethernet switch. The router is a well known brand, but requires a custom firmware to support Telstra. They are $200 each. If you want one, let me know as Daniel Kerr and I will be putting in a bulk order and configuring them for Telstra. Cable Users Rejoice! - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Attention Telstra Cable Users
At 6:57 PM 11/9/03, Matthew Healey wrote: After much pain and anguish, I have found a router that supports Telstra's Heartbeat authentication. This means that you can get rid of that nasty Launch!/Heartbeat software and use a hardware router, that supports connections sharing. It also includes a 4-port ethernet switch. The router is a well known brand, but requires a custom firmware to support Telstra. They are $200 each. If you want one, let me know as Daniel Kerr and I will be putting in a bulk order and configuring them for Telstra. Cable Users Rejoice! - Matt There are several routers which support the heartbeatreferhttp://whirlpool.net.au/faq-mac.cfm#2.2.3.1. I have used Netgear for a number of years and am currently using FR114P which I purchased from http://www.ozcableguy.com/. Configuring the routers is easy provided that you ensure the latest firmware (obtainable from the particular manufacturers site) is installed. Bob
Telstra Cable Users
Hi All, It seems that gradually more Mac users are connecting to cable. I have been connected for almost 2 years and have found the Whirlpool site http://whirlpool.net.au/faq-mac.cfm to be an invaluable source of facts and information. The site also has various forums where you can discuss with and receive assistance from other cable users. Bob
Re: seemingly, a solution to Mac OS X 10.2 and Telstra Cable (Broadband) problem
Why Telstra lust haven't paid Jamie Curmie a license for this and just included it on their set-up disks is a complete mystery. My guess is that they would have wanted to take intellectual rights and charge users for it and that he found this unacceptable? Given that they don't even offer info about it on their own site or through their call center would seem to suggest that they are either deliberately ignoring it or stupid but that's just my personal opinion actually my strictly personal, and in no way associated with my place of employment, or my professional qualifications, opinion is the stupid option but I have no evidence apart from irrational loathing born of experience to back this up. -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ 'We are all children of $root' or so says a wise old programer... Anon. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: seemingly, a solution to Mac OS X 10.2 and Telstra Cable (Broadband) problem
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Mark Secker wrote: seemingly a solution to Mac OS X 10.2 and Telstra Cable (Broadband) problem I queried about a week ago: thanks to those who assisted with this. the solution seems to be to use a 3rd party donationware program called Launch! have not given it a long term whirl but after 2 hours of testing including large downloads, rebooting, reconnecting etc we encountered no problems. It seems I must have missed the original post regarding this, but as a long-tome user of Launch! (since its inception) I can vouch for this excellent little utility. It has never failed me, is as solid as a rock, and rich in features, even to the point of telling you on-screen how much you owe Telstra when you exceed your monthly download limit (well, it's not pleasant information but very handy). Why Telstra lust haven't paid Jamie Curmie a license for this and just included it on their set-up disks is a complete mystery. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
seemingly, a solution to Mac OS X 10.2 and Telstra Cable (Broadband) problem
seemingly a solution to Mac OS X 10.2 and Telstra Cable (Broadband) problem I queried about a week ago: thanks to those who assisted with this. the solution seems to be to use a 3rd party donationware program called Launch! have not given it a long term whirl but after 2 hours of testing including large downloads, rebooting, reconnecting etc we encountered no problems. Version 2.2 of Launch! is available: from developer http://users.bigpond.net.au/jcurmi/software/mac/launch/index.html via version-tracker http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13015 or ftp://talent.ecel.uwa.edu.au/talent/public/Mac%20OS%20X/bigpondlaunch/ -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ 'We are all children of $root' or so says a wise old programer... Anon. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Mail-hub Telstra cable
Hi. Like Houston I have a problem :-(. Every so often I get my mail returned saying there is a problem with my SMTP settings . If I go away and come back sometime later without changing anything it works. I am using biege G3/300 Mac OS X Cable to telstra bigpond. Programme is Mail 1.1. My question is :- Is this my end or TELSTRA's end TIA Mac
Re: Mail-hub Telstra cable
Hi. Like Houston I have a problem :-(. Every so often I get my mail returned saying there is a problem with my SMTP settings . If I go away and come back sometime later without changing anything it works. I am using biege G3/300 Mac OS X Cable to telstra bigpond. Programme is Mail 1.1. My question is :- Is this my end or TELSTRA's end TIA Mac I would be willing to bet that it's Telstra's end. There are reports on http://www.whirlpool.net.au/ of Telstra's mail system falling over recently. (Having just changed to getting my mail from iinet rather than cygnus, I notice that their authentication system breaks occasionally too. Sigh.) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer It must be bunnies! Opinions for hire [POQ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord
Re: Mail-hub Telstra cable
I (and several others I know) are having the same problem with Telstra ADSL. It looks like the fault is with them rather than (the current version of) Mail. On Thursday, August 8, 2002, at 12:49 PM, Malcolm McCallum wrote: Hi. Like Houston I have a problem :-(. Every so often I get my mail returned saying there is a problem with my SMTP settings . If I go away and come back sometime later without changing anything it works. I am using biege G3/300 Mac OS X Cable to telstra bigpond. Programme is Mail 1.1. My question is :- Is this my end or TELSTRA's end TIA Mac -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.html Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.html Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Keith Palmer Zytech Marketing Pty Ltd PO Box 342 Bunbury 6231 Phone: 0419927101 Fax: 0897915900 the online FireWire data storage store - http://www.zytech.com.au/
