DOCSIS 3 has been available in Melbourne for at least a few years. The
place I was living at a few years ago we bought a second hand modem
from ebay, plugged it in, and it was all go.
Luckily almost (if not) every house I've lived at had both Optus and
Telstra cables running past it, both which provide 100mbit.
It would be nice if the upload speeds were better, but what can you do?
Cheers,
--
Les Hughes
[email protected]
Quoting GregAtGregLowDotCom <[email protected]>:
I got the suggestion from a few people to speak to the LiveChat
people as they are based out of Australia, unlike the phone people,
and that they generally seem to have a clue.
I spoke to Justin who told me that he’d never seen customers using
cable services for business. He thought only ADSL was for business
<sigh>
I suspect it might be Optus time, as a number of people seem happy
with their DOCSIS 3 system.
Regards,
Greg
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Connors
Sent: Wednesday, 11 September 2013 1:47 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Telstra Cable 3.0
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:42 PM, David Connors <
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:24 PM, GregAtGregLowDotCom <
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> wrote:
Any thoughts on why they’d say it can only be a residential account,
not a business account?
Yes, it is just market segmentation so they don't cannibalise their
EAS, Ethernet Line, etc products.
The BigPond product probably has traffic policing on it and so on as
it is resi-grade IP transit - but you probably won't care unless
<http://isohunt.com> isohunt.com is your core business. Support on
the cable service will probably be pretty shit & offshore, not like
calling Telstra Internet Direct.
BTW; I've tried to convince them to install a DOCSIS service at our
offices before with no luck. I just thought though - I wonder if you
could order Foxtel business, then just get them to post you out a
modem and activate the BigPond IP service over that?
The issue I had was that I would have been found out during the
on-site installation when they had to pull coax up from the MDF. :)
David.
