[plug] off topic: telstra exchange in Mandurah

[Kai]

With the $50 million dollar Australian government grant (read: another 
taxpayer funded fix that could've been avoided if Telstra didn't take 
short cuts to begin with) Telstra now guarentee's a minimum of 19,200 on 
all lines. For regional customers that grant was supposed to start on 
the 11th of December, 2001. The rest of the country had to wait a bit 
longer...apparently starting on the 4th of March, 2002.

People with problems they wanted tested were supposed to be directed to 
this site -
http://www.iapselfhelp.com/
but I've heard that sites about as usefull as a hole in the head.

So if you're getting lost carriers at 21,600...stiff cheese :P

HTH

/Kai

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Wilsmore" <djinn at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] off topic: telstra exchange in Mandurah


 > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:30:16PM +0800, Adrian Woodley wrote:
 > > Theres a number you can dial which will test your line. Telstra don't
 > > guarantee any speed, but they say you should be able to get about
 > > 42kbps. Someone a bit more knowledgable maybe able to tell you the
 > > number.
 > >
 > > Adrian
 > >
 >
 > I think you would find that Telstra _do_ guarantee a speed though 9600
 > isn't much to brag about :)
 >
 > thanks,
 >   the Djinn