On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 15:40, frankieh wrote: > Stephen, > > you are in Sydney aren't you??? > > Sydney is probably the most covered broadband city in Australia, why > can't you get ADSL or Cable? > Incidently, you also have wireless broadband options now with iBurst > going online in Sydney as well... > > So whats the word? why have you not made the leap to broadband? > (I'm in Perth, the ass end of australia and even I have ADSL... )
ILLAWARRA. Check your geography, Mr. Perth. The Illawarra is south of Sydney. Wollongong, Lake Illawarra and etc. On top of that, this entire area is a Telstra nightmare; two different sets of hardware, and several different types of fsck-ups that Telstra has been trying to hide from the public for more than twenty years. No joke. Telstra might tell someone they can have ADSL, but in reality, only about 40% of the folks they tell CAN have it CAN have it. No joke. It's something of a thorn in Telstra's side and it's been made public before but Telstra (and affiliates) do everything they can to hush it up (which they do quite a good job of)(and I'm sure you've dealt with Telstra before as they own all the hardware) Secondly, when I was marred, er, married, we lived in two different places that were completely ADSL unaccessible. No other forms were available either. BUT, now that Tina and I live at the entrance to Lake Illawarra in Windang, we're literally right next to the "exchange" junction and it's only a matter of her and I getting the money together to get it going. I already own an ADSL/modem/router (with firewall) so we're going to end up with 512/256 unlimited (yes, truly unlimited) service through Telpacific for $80 AUD per month (no caps, nothing - check their website)(oh, and I get a discount because of my tenure with them and due to the fact that I've worked on their dial-up exchange many times before as I'm the only one south of Chatswood that can be there in less than 15 minutes)(Ha!) But overall, Tina and I are saving our pennies to take a trip to SA for a Teddy Bear seminar at the end of June - and to have a complete servicing on the vehicle (a Ford Laser xsi w/1.8l engine) which is going to cost the better part of a thousand bucks... So, in about two months time, we'll be happily "surfing" at high speed - and it's nice that she at least understands the importance of high speed - the ex-wife certainly didn't (although she's whinging about it nowadays! Ha!) stephen kuhn - owner ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ------------------------------------------------------------------ Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. -- Mark Twain
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