Author Archives: The Elite Geek

An article in Australian IT has quoted an industry member as suggesting that wireless is the BEST option to regional, rural and remote areas. And he is right. WiMAX is capable of speeds far exceeding that of the proposed FTTN … Continue reading →

It amazes me how stupid those who get elected are. The previous government setup a $2 billion communications fund, of which the interest would be used to invest in further regional and rural communications infrastructure. Brilliant plan. There’s no burden … Continue reading →

And so did the High Court today when it released it’s verdict on Telstra’s “The Castle” style legal action against the ACCC’s declaration and continuation of competition. Telstra’s case was that the fair rates set by the ACCC for access … Continue reading →

It would seem that BPL isn’t taking off after the sparks it originally created when first anticipated by the industry as a replacement for the expensive copper from Telstra. BPL is running broadband over infrastructure that is sure to reach … Continue reading →

According to a recent article in SMH’s “Business Day”, it’s revealed nearly everytime a pricing decision is released by the ACCC, they take that decision for legal action. The idea here is pretty clear. With a pricing decision made by … Continue reading →

It’s amazing, the number of products you can get a guarantee on. For example, through the USO, a basic telephone service is guaranteed to any fixed residence. And, there’s those “guaranteed, or your money back” style marketing done by various … Continue reading →

Whirlpool have done it again, finally releasing the results of their annual broadband survey, and the results are well, expected. Survey Results Here What can be seen from the survey is pretty average. 1. Broadband value is pretty much the … Continue reading →

When it comes to node based deployment, the issues for regional and rural areas are cost based issues, centred mainly around trenching through a fibre cable to the node, and then cutting the customers over. Of these however, the costly … Continue reading →

Fibre to the Farmyard. Naturally, I think it’s a common place belief that it isn’t coming to a farmyard at all, because Fibre is expensive to deploy, and is overkill for current and anticipated future requirements for farmers. But, it … Continue reading →

I’m amazed by the amount people are paying for houses at the current moment. It’s a supply and demand situation, as revealed by a report a while ago, that I was reading. Essentially, the First Home Buyers Grant, and other … Continue reading →

It’s common debate when in discussion about Telstra, that they claim regulations prevent Telstra running a business the way they wanted to. But, when you dig into these deeper then getting your toes wet, you generally find that the regulations … Continue reading →

Simon Hackett, Internode Founder was quoted in Australian IT providing an outlook towards the future of broadband in 2008. I find Simon’s views near accurate, of course he has to spin it out towards his own companies agenda, he does … Continue reading →

… and opening on our car now. At long last, we can finally open and close the window on the car. The fix came today, as we were able to track down the auto electrician back at the workshop, and … Continue reading →

So far, we have been trying to get an issue fixed with the car that has taken 20 days to try and get sorted out. The only issue with the car itself is the back window doesn’t actually work (electric … Continue reading →

Yep, straight from the reliable mouth of ZDNet, Telstra rejected possible customers for ADSL2+. The government has been inconsistent also, with it’s Telstra dealings, stating during the election campaign that it would stand strong against Telstra, yet, when the time … Continue reading →

At least, one window is closing, and it’s not the one I want unfortunately. The window for our registration renewal is closing, and we have a little bit of time to accomplish a few things. We need to get the electric … Continue reading →

The NSW government proposed to roll out free wireless across parts of NSW at the previous election. As per typical government promises, the total work began towards such commitment is absolutely 0. There’s no government based wireless network running for … Continue reading →

The demolition work has begun to destroy a great work by the Howard government, the established Communications Fund. This Communications Fund was established so that Regional and Rural Communications services wouldn’t fall behind metro areas due to a lack of … Continue reading →

And on, and on. We are trying to seek the screws involved with our window repair to the car. The auto electrician (who is a well known person to us, and others), is still away, and isn’t working until next … Continue reading →

… and the pain still continues for the hunt for a pink slip for the car. We are still no closer to fixing the only flaw found with the car, the rear left electric window won’t actually wind down. The … Continue reading →

My car is loving the attention it is getting right now, no doubt. I took it back to the auto electrician to get the window part fitted, and.. well, it is one which is broken and doesn’t work. To be … Continue reading →

If Australians had to choose between an FTTH network, or an FTTN network, the considerations should be looking both into the long term speed advantage, as well as into the short and medium term damage to competition that could be … Continue reading →

Introducing ADSL2+. Yeh, we knew it existed years ago, Telstra were just so slow at getting the pills necessary to get it up. Now, however, Senator Conroy, contacted Telstra advising them that he agrees with the ACCC in full, when … Continue reading →

We took the car in for its pink slip last week at some point, and we failed the pink slip for the fact the rear left window doesn’t go down (its electric). What I found amazing then is that the … Continue reading →