[plug] Broadband problems Rockingham.

[Jon L. Miller]

Well after 4 months of nagging them to death Telstra finally admitted
that our location Osborne Park was on a "substation" so there was no way
we were getting any broadband service.  The only thing they could offer
was satellite or ISDN.  So we are moving.  The reason I got for the
Osborne Park area was they (Telstra) never thought about broadband for
business use.  Bottom line they wanted to get the businesses on ISDN
(more money for Telstra).

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 15:08, Kai wrote:
> Classic symptoms of pair gain would be:
> - you can't connect above 28,800 or 31,200
> - you get disconnected for no reason and your ISP says they're not 
> disconnecting you (if this is the case, ask your ISP for a copy of your 
> connection logs and see if you're being disconnected from lost carrier). 
> In this case the disconnections may be caused by the electronic line 
> splitting device which Telstra may have installed at the pit in your 
> street where your pair comes in...
> 
> I had a chat to a Telstra linesman who came to fix an earthing problem 
> with the pair that I'm connected to, he said, legally, Telstra does not 
> have to tell you if you're on pair gain or not, but if you can find 
> evidence that you probably are on it, you can nag the hell out of 
> Telstra so much that they might get sick of you and change you onto a 
> normal pair...but nothing is guarenteed.
> 
> Good luck !
> 
> /Kai
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig" <czilko at southwest.com.au>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 2:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [plug] Broadband problems Rockingham.
> 
> 
>  > Just to add - am I a victim of Telstra's line pair ????
>  >
>  > http://www.katelundy.com.au/may2002.htm#27May2002
>  >
>  > Doubt I will ever know.
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  > Craig.
>  >
>  > Mandrake Linux 8.2
>  > Kernel version: 2.4.18-8.1mdk
>  > Current Linux uptime: 16 days 18 hours 38 minutes.
>  > Registered Linux User: 228534
> 
> 
-- 
Jon L. Miller
MMT Networks Pty Ltd
Perth, Western Australia

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