Category Archives: Random

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 →

I’ve been watching closely (or is that casually) to try and find the source of many of my drop outs and see if I can isolate it, or do something to slow them or stop them. Unfortunately, they continue to … Continue reading →

Our sync speed on ADSL2+ is now at a fantastic 10Mbit, with 812kbit out, with the introduction of a Billion 5200 to the network lineup. That device saw the retirement of the trusty D-Link DSL-504T, which just wasn’t cutting it … Continue reading →