Australias shithouse internet

[Shhtuart]

Linksys ain't cisco

I believe Cisco acquired Linksys a while ago...

[Shhtuart]

Oh and Ben, just start up your own small ISP.

Set up a T3 and run a fibre optic cable to your own house.

Then...

Set up an international spam network to fund the ISP and ta-the!

Free interwebz.

EDIT: I laughed that the "d.a" was auto-corrected to "the"
Aimed at any users in paticular?

[Lawso]

explosives...

[I8A4RE]

Cant believe no one eles has suggested it.....Ipad It is crazy powerful

[Astron_Boy]

Cant believe no one eles has suggested it.....Ipad It is crazy powerful

But it is! You're just ignorant to the cause

[Dras]

My mate in Parklea (like 1 suburb away from Acacia Gardens) was told by every ISP that the cables in his street would not permit him to get ADSL at all. The only option the ISPs could give him was 3G wireless.

Being an Acacia Gardens resident with 2 phone lines, I set up a second phone line for him and we have a 2.4 GHz wireless link via satellites on our roofs at the maximum legal power limit. The wireless is faster than the ADSL so he is pretty happy with the solution and we have not had 1 wireless dropout. (Bob from iinet on the other hand needs an occasional reboot).

Moral of the story, while ADSL speeds in Acacia Gardens aren't great, it could be worse if you lived 600m to the east in Parklea.

[Bennoz]

Good god...

You'd think also, with the area growing as fast as it is (housing chunks going up daily) you'd seize a potential business goldmine.
Oh well, thanks Telstra.

Got a price on bonded DSL, add another $99 a month ontop of my existing monthly bill

Oh & Telstra reckon they can do me a cable connection! If I sign up for Foxtel.....

[Bennoz]

Scratch cable... can get Foxtel but no cable lol.

[Astron_Boy]

Scratch cable... can get Foxtel but no cable lol.

Why?

I had to go through Foxtel to have the cable run installed as back then somehow, our house was classed as a business.
So I booked in the cable to be installed, guy came out, realised paperwork was wrong, installed, we paid $100.
Rang up Telstra told them the 'residence' has a cable connection already in place, please come and install cable modem.

Done.

Years later we ended up with foxtel anyway.

Why can you not get cable, yet you can get foxtel?

[Delvance]

Linksys ain't cisco

I believe Cisco acquired Linksys a while ago...

Dude, it's like driving a proton but saying you have a lotus

[Bennoz]

Scratch cable... can get Foxtel but no cable lol.

Why?

I had to go through Foxtel to have the cable run installed as back then somehow, our house was classed as a business.
So I booked in the cable to be installed, guy came out, realised paperwork was wrong, installed, we paid $100.
Rang up Telstra told them the 'residence' has a cable connection already in place, please come and install cable modem.

Done.

Years later we ended up with foxtel anyway.

Why can you not get cable, yet you can get foxtel?

"Satellite Only Area"

My god, Im getting a headache from all the eye rolling

[Bennoz]

Linksys ain't cisco

I believe Cisco acquired Linksys a while ago...

Dude, it's like driving a proton but saying you have a lotus

Yeah, but with Mitsubish running gear!

SNAP!!

[Astron_Boy]

Meanwhile driving a lotus is driving a sporty shelled Toyota

That sucks about being Satelite.

[Supplanter]

Get access to a friend's ADSL2, string Cat6 and repeaters along the powerlines back to your house.

[Bennoz]

Just reading some intersting stats on the Whirlpool forums. Anyone here use Billion modems?

Was just reading a review (a f*cking 64 page review....g33ks) on the Billion 7800N unit.
Bloke is about the same distance from the exchange as me & with the Billion unit, went
from 2.2k connection with his WAG160N (Linksys same as mine) to over 3.3k...

Only $197 bucks from Cormain too...

[brad_gpx]

you think thats bad, my gf lives in the richest place on the central coast and everywhere else on the coast gets better internet then her. shes only able to get telstra there. and there internet is constantly up and down. while i live in an average suburb on the coast, get average internet for someone who isnt living near sydney and it is constantly reliable. I think its been down for maybe 1-2 days over the last few years.

[Bennoz]

Went & bought the Billion 7800N modem.

Have just tweaked the spead up via snr settings to 3.3Mb

A full meg better than previous modem.... $200 well spent.

*Happy dances*

[evoman]

lol Also, have you tried a few different routers? I know some of the Billion items have a good rep for dealing with low quality line signals....so you could possibly gain a couple of hundred extra download kw's lol.

Are you going to give me a spin in your car now that you used what was clearly my excellent idea?

At my old place in the gong I borrowed a mates Billion 7402(i think) and got a gain of around 1Mb over the Dynalink one we had in the house. Was too cheap to be bothered to go and buy one though. Definitely good pieces of gear.

Just add a 6A13TT to the Billion and that should fix it all up real good.

[Bennoz]

lol Also, have you tried a few different routers? I know some of the Billion items have a good rep for dealing with low quality line signals....so you could possibly gain a couple of hundred extra download kw's lol.

Are you going to give me a spin in your car now that you used what was clearly my excellent idea?

At my old place in the gong I borrowed a mates Billion 7402(i think) and got a gain of around 1Mb over the Dynalink one we had in the house. Was too cheap to be bothered to go and buy one though. Definitely good pieces of gear.

Just add a 6A13TT to the Billion and that should fix it all up real good.

Indeed!

The best I could pull down a torrent was 180-190k, just ripping one in now at 310k. Good times.

[Dras]

What is your upstream like?

I am about the same distance from the exchange and i get 3466 / 799 Kbps on a Linksys AG300.