Bordernet will do a satellite HIBIS setup in the country if you cannot get
Telstra broadband over the phone line. Fully subsidised by the Govt.
We're just in the process of getting it installed at Lake Keepit this week.
A couple of our Club members are currently using this service in their
homes - good reports.
Dave Shorter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Google Earth
Ian McPhee wrote:
Now is the time to act even if you are fat and happy with Telstra there
are people out there still being treated like the scum of the earth.
A different, and more long-term effective way to act is to cease
dealing with Telstra at all.
If you want broadband and you're too far away from a city for ADSL
then sure, BigPond Satellite with a HIBIS subsidy might be the only
way to go.
But for most other services there are loads of other companies which
will give you better customer service, better reliability and a cheaper
price than Telstra will.
In particular, if Telstra ever says you can get ADSL, that also
means that dozens of other ISPs can provide you with ADSL service
as well. Don't expect Telstra Countrywide to ever point that out,
of course.
At the end of the day, BigPond is one of Australia's most expensive ISPs,
and it's certainly the hardest one to deal with -- *Nobody* enjoys
dealing with Telstra, right?
Do a bit of research and you'll probably find lots of ISPs of varying
sizes and friendliness servicing your area. Small regional ISPs like
Bridge Online in the Coorong area and Riverland Internet around
Renmark can give good service, and national players like Internode
provide dialup access to every land-line in Australia for the cost of
a local call and broadband ADSL on every phone line where Telstra
can provide it (and many where they can't).
If you keep giving money to Telstra, you'll never encourage them to
change. The only way to get a better outcome is to support a non-Telstra
alternative, because without that support Telstra will always eventually
win the monopoly war and become the only game in town.
- mark
[ network engineer, Internode ]
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