Re: Telstra cable broadband

2012-10-12 Thread Tim Law
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 workin

Re: Telstra Cable

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
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

Re: Telstra Cable

2009-11-09 Thread Brett Carboni
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 ba

Re: Telstra Cable

2009-11-09 Thread Tim Law
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" wrote: > Fixing somethi

Re: Telstra Cable

2009-11-09 Thread Bill Parker
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 b

Re: Telstra Cable

2009-11-09 Thread Stephen Atherton
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 w