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
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
