[plug] [OT] Telstra rort

[Paul Stone]

Last week I helped a mate install some new phone lines in south-perth, he
sub-contracts for a guy, who-sub-contracts for a company who sub-contracts
to telstra.

Another mate of mine moved into a 'new suburb' where they deliberately used
pair gaining to save costs, so no adsl for them unfortunately.

My cousin had a phone line with excessive line noise so he complained about
it alot, eventually got a clearer line and was able to install adsl at that
house - im not sure if they upgraded the lines or if they were already
there, just needed fixing...

As an alternative to adsl, you might want to try a wireless connection with
a local isp, although I believe it has a few 'drawbacks'

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cameron Patrick" <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] Telstra rort


> Ben New wrote:
>
> | Has anybody else been stung like this?
>
> Nope, although we almost had a similar situation at work (in Malaga).
> Fortunately in this case there was more than one phone line, and
> although one (or two?) were on pair gains or some such, we were able to
> get ADSL on another.  Telstra were less than helpful though - it looked
> for a while as though we'd be stuck on 28.8k dialup.
>
> At home (in Duncraig) we had no problems getting ADSL - although I'd
> bloody hope so, considering that our phone lines predate RIMs and pair
> gains and such nasties, and we're only a few hundred metres from the
> exchange.
>
> Cameron.
>
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