[plug] [OT] Telstra rort

[Chris Caston]

What about when the contractor comes out and puts in the Modular plugs
instead of the the three prongs. I saw one setup where they had used an
rj-45 on cat3 probably because he didn't have any rj-12's left.

Other than rewire it what can you do?

regards,

Chris  

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 17:21, Paul Stone wrote:
> 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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