[plug] Broadband problems Rockingham.

[ryan at is.as.geeky.as]

We (unspecifed company) forked out for DDS in Osborne Park (Telstra via another provider).  At 3 times the price of the HDSL link we were able to get in West Perth (Optus/XYZed), it certainly ain't for everyone.  All our PABX onramps are fibre in Osborne Park, there is a fair bit of it around there, however it seems Telstra will only terminate it as an I$DN service.  The DDS lines are PERFECT, noticeably better than ISDN.  The HDSL is nearly perfect, but prone to the occasional clocking error from the NTU (Currently 0.001817% on our one).

Another option Telstra can offer is their Ethernet service (I forget the exact name but I wrote the figures down).  Their maximum offering is a 1Gbit end-to-end link between two metro areas for a simple flat fee of $567,996 for 12 months ... plus a $55,000 installation fee.  

Just my 2(^100) cents worth :)

Ryan

On 11 Sep 2002 20:14:44 +0800
"Jon L. Miller" <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au> wrote:

> 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).