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christos
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Registered: Jan 2003
Location: 42
Evil1 Bigpond Cable sucks the big one!

Haven't had the internet at home since Thursday night and the Telstra techs that came on Thursday said "oh, we're not sure how we can fix this"...I said "yeah that's great...what do I do now?"....they respond "umm...try calling on Monday to speak with someone about it"...

Can't believe this crap! Anywayz, someone came out this morning and fixed the problem as a follow up to the Thursday blunder!

It's amazing how dependant of the internet we can become. You feel 'disconnected' when you don't have it!


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Old Post Jul-19-2004 02:13  Australia
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00soups00
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Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Melbourne

looks like its time to churn over to IINET.


they are offering FREE setup to bigpond customers.

trust me mate, its worth the switch over..


http://www.iinet.net.au

dont forget to mention the username of soups if u sign up

Old Post Jul-19-2004 02:39  Australia
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kelsta
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Melbourne, Australia

I'm with Iinet also... experience hardly any downtime at all. And they have just increased download limits yet again Always a nice surprise.

Edit: we had Optus cable when we lived in a house.. and I would still have it now but Optus suck and won't let me have it connected to my apartment


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Old Post Jul-19-2004 04:01  Australia
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nicknack
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia

working for an ISP i deal with telstra everyday, what can i say, they are wankers with no clue

edit: oh and soups, he has telstra cable, unless you have worked out someway to churn from coaxial cable to an adsl phoneline he wont be able to churn ;D


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Lanithium
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Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Perth, Australia

i love my cable.. switching back to adsl would be like switching back to dialup from adsl.. aint no way thats gonna happen!


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00soups00
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Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Melbourne

lanithium

cable is good..

but depending on what your download sources are, it wouldnt necessarily be affected.. plus download limits are better


im on the 1.5mbit plan with IINET. and whilst its 109.95 a month, its worth every cent for how much i get and where i get my stuff from

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Lanithium
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Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Perth, Australia

quote:
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lanithium

cable is good..

but depending on what your download sources are, it wouldnt necessarily be affected.. plus download limits are better


im on the 1.5mbit plan with IINET. and whilst its 109.95 a month, its worth every cent for how much i get and where i get my stuff from


so thats nearly double what i pay for cable... slower than cable.... and who said anything about limits? i've never been capped.

really sounds like its worth the switch over!!

edit: oh and id never go with iinet


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matt_a
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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Sydney

I can't get cable where I live

So I'm stuck with Bigpond ADSL.
It's actually fkn reliable (in year and a half only been of for half a day once), and good speeds too, compared to other providers.


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nicknack
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia

quote:
Originally posted by matt_a
I can't get cable where I live

So I'm stuck with Bigpond ADSL.
It's actually fkn reliable (in year and a half only been of for half a day once), and good speeds too, compared to other providers.


good speeds obviously because any other provider the traffic goes through telstra to their own network then off to the net, with telstra it goes straight off to the net from them cutting out the network in between. anywhoo given the option i would always always choose cable over ADSL, (i have 1.5 adsl and optus cable atm in my house) , i am 90% connected to cable, use adsl as redundancy


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JoeCool
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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Perth,Western Australia

quote:
Originally posted by Lanithium
i love my cable.. switching back to adsl would be like switching back to dialup from adsl.. aint no way thats gonna happen!


what he said....


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Aesthetic
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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: somewhere between the melody and the pads

i'm with westnet myself (adsl), and while i experienced a slight down time on saturday morning, i reckon it's great.


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matt.h
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: melbourne

quote:
Originally posted by 00soups00
looks like its time to churn over to IINET.
they are offering FREE setup to bigpond customers.


FREE fast-churn to iiNet is no longer available.
it was removed after iinet decided they wanted to rollout their own DSLAMs.

people on iinet can still churn away from iinet to a new isp, but you can't choose to churn to iinet anymore. if you want to signup for iinet, with or without an existing ADSL connection, the cheapest possible option is $89, where you BYO adsl modem.

personally, i love my telstra cable and wouldn't trade it off for adsl for any reason!

500KB/s+ is awesome!

for anyone locked into a contract with telstra at the moment, you can now break that contract without having to pay out the rest of your contract. refer here and here.

Old Post Jul-19-2004 06:46  Australia
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