On Sat, 14 Jun 2014, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi Lindsay, > > If you are 5km from the exchange by cable, then unless the copper is > quite thick, you probably won't even get ANY kind of DSL service. > > Now, let's say you are lucky and the cable is thick; chances are the > speed will still be low due to the loss of signal over the phone line -- > it won't sync high and it will probably have lots of dropouts, > particularly if the weather interferes. Telstra is not known for > properly maintaining the copper network; they do bandaid fixes on the > copper line. This will effect you no matter what provider you have. > > -- > Kind Regards > AndrewM >
Many thanks for all the replies, its been most helpfull. A great deal of info to digest. A minor comment, I do not and never will have a mobie phone. Andrew raisies an intersting point in the above. I worked for most of my life as an PMG/Telecom/Telstra tech mostly on inside work lonngline exchange maintence etc. but I have done much work on transmission quality of the customer cable system. I may say I am very dubious of the ability of the cable to my location to work at ADSL frequncies. On a normal dialup using a Maestro Woomera modem, one of the best avalible, it will only manage a connect rate of 19.2 kilobits/sec, this is pathetic. Trying it from a nearby place which is over 2000 metres closer to the exchange produced the same result, ____not_good___. It appears the cable closer to town is no good (not unusual these days) I have known about the ADSL access since I moved in but have no desire to throw money down the drain for a system that is no good. There is still hope though, currently for high speed access I use prepiad Virgin 3G broadband. While this is __very__ expensive it is fast, generally getting 4 to 500 kilobytes/sec transfer rates (I am only a kilometre or so from the tower). Virgin do have a 40 dollar a month plan with a 12 gig data allowance, If you use more it just cuts off (effectively). THe USB modems dont much like the summer heat (common I am told for dongles) but is quite usable still. Virgin does have paymnet options I find reasonable and I have found the company __VERY__ helpfull in support. The 12 gig allowance will be more than enough as I do not do movies or TV or anything like that. Incidently I am JUST out of range of fixed radio NBN (like 3 or 400 metres), being in a valley behind some rising ground. Not that this is an issue. Lindsay _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
