[plug] Telstra rort

[Kai]

Trent Lloyd wrote:

>>You should have done the work yourself. If you can find the local
>>exchange (not a RIM pillar) and its not more than 3Km from you, and if
>>Telstra advise that there is no Pair Gain (they can tell you over the
>>phone) then you'll be right. Worked for me :)
> 
> 
> so those poles i see sticking out of the ground with a tonne of phone line cables in them (wheni see techys working on it) is a RIM pillar? 
> 
> Cheers,
> Trent
> Bur.st

Afaik that's a normal pillar, when I was living in Balga (about 400 
metres north of Reid Highway and Wanneroo road), there's a pillar about 
20 metres from the bus stop (on the east side of Wanneroo Rd) which is 
not far from my old place, I don't think that was a RIM, if it was I 
think there'd be a lot more "card" type devices in there instead of just 
copper, copper and more copper and krone blocks.

Back before WestNet sold ADSL I got a second line put in my old house, 
when the Telstra tech came I followed him around like a bad smell and 
asked a heap of questions, he didn't say too much but I got to see a bit.