Just be careful about those comments re running water, Peter...;-) I am soon going to be on a first name basis with Sol Trujillo at the rate I'm going in Cowaramup. We are precisely 7.2kms from the exchange, which is precisely 2.8kms too far. Meanwhile, down the road, a caravan park which is on a different exchange, but only 2kms from us, has recently connected to broadband AT THE INVITATION OF TELSTRA!
We seem to be in a black spot of some .5 to 1.8kms in length and "there's nothing we can do". RUBBISH!! I told the regional technical manager that he could save his breath about G3 and the whiz bang stuff the new services will do. Until he can get me a basic broadband service, NOT via a satellite dish, I don't care about watching TV on my mobile phone!! It's a farce. Barb On 8/5/07 10:21 AM, "Peter Bull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't have to work in the mining industry to have broadband > problems. We have just moved into a house in East Cannington (that is > not in the outback incidentally) and checked that ADSL was > available before we bought it. We applied to Westnet for a connection - > yes, broadband is available in that area. We then found out that we > only have half copper to the house and ADSL is not available. > It took many phone calls to Westnet, Telstra and Optus to get this > information. > > We are eligible for a satellite service, normally used by people in > the country who are a long way from the phone exchange. We have changed > our phone connection to Telstra in the hope that > they will put in more wires so we can get ADSL. Telstra don't seem to > have any interest in upgrading the service, but we hope that if we have > the phone and broadband with BigPond (yuk) they might > connect us to the 21st century. > > In the meantime we are back on dialup - it's like living in a house > without running water. >> > Peter Bull > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Geoffrey and Barbara Maidment "Idleyld Farm" 477 Cowaramup Bay Road Cowaramup 6284 Western Australia ph/fx +61 8 9755 5265 e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
