Sucky sucky broadband

[bane]

Still farkin nowhere with this.

I'm getting VERY frustrated.

A certain Kevin Bloody Wilson song comes to mind, which includes phone and arse in the title....

time to go postal me thinks!

[mynameis]

iHug aye. 10 characters.

[scracha]

iHug aye. 10 characters.

They've been a lot more helpful than the what used to be excellent Orcon.

[scracha]

After having Telescum out here AGAIN (10 times by my count) I've given up.

Asked them for another phone line (new number...you don't wanna know how much). Cheeky cow on the phone complained about the fact she could hardly hear me......I had to explain to her that it's her companies $hitty service that's causing that. Idiot.

So two arrived last week to "fix my line". "No, I've given up on that" says I..."you're here to install a new line". After half an hour or so tweedle dee and tweedle dumb waffle something about the exchange not having the ports configured properly or summit and bugger off. That was the start of last week and I haven't heard back yet.

Long story short. I'm still stuck with a @#$ckin phone line that folks can hardly hear me on and I've still got hillbilly broadband. Don't these clowns have any sort of standard of service they have to abide by or are the jobsworths in the beehive two busy pocketing their Telecom shares?

Number portability. Neither iHug nor Telescum knew anything about it. Two different peeps at Telecon told me that if I moved to another area then there's no way I could keep the existing number. So it looks like my best option is to pay for another line rental and have the first number diverting to the second....gah.

[CookMySock]

My [cough] Broadband sucks and has sucked since I moved here 12 months ago. My neighbour is 200m further away from the exchange and gets 7.3Mbps. I know this because I've fixed half the computers in this village. They're all getting at least 4Mbps. Unfortunately Telecon have hooked me up to the exchange in a different town (7.2Km away) so on a good day I get 0.3Mbps and have to restart the modem at least once a day. My previous ISP got nowhere with Telecom's wholesale dept. and my new ISP aren't getting any joy too. Any advice on what my next step should be would be appreciated. My porn takes far too long to download.

shoot a wireless link over there and pay for their ADSL.

DB

[CookMySock]

Run a cable down the fenceline, and there you go.

this is a really dangerous thing to do. Use a 802.11b/g link.

edit: scracha I do this wireless-link shit professionally - PM me if you want a hand with it.
DB

[Winter]

Dangerous? Pfft! Most of wellington is wired this way. Use glass for added safety if you must!

[CookMySock]

Dangerous? Pfft! Most of wellington is wired this way. Use glass for added safety if you must!

Most of wellington sits on top of a multiple-earth neutral system that must have 20 tonnes of copper in it. Ie, its very difficult to pull the ground potential around during fault conditions. This is NOT THE CASE in a rural situation, where a substantial fault will cause a very large potential difference to arise between two points. Connect these two points with a long wire and you are asking for trouble.

Why do people think I talk through a hole in my arse ? I spent some time in this industry and my opinion counts for at least something. sheesh.

Just run a wireless link to some favourable ADSL. Gawd its dead fucking simple, and cheap too, and you can hook others up to it to recover more costs.

DB

[Kwaka14]

Time to head back aye?

Well ADSL 2 is being rolled out from this year few exchanges around the conuntry already have it and are getting speeds of 15 to 20 Meg so hopefully things will change for the better.

Plus the lousy Gattung has gone so hopefully things will be done in a different way by DR Reynolds !

im on adsl2 and getting awesome speeds of close to 0.4m.. sux

[Winter]

Why do people think I talk through a hole in my arse ? I spent some time in this industry and my opinion counts for at least something. sheesh.


DB

Easy buddy. Take a deep breath and a grain of salt.

[CookMySock]

Easy buddy. Take a deep breath and a grain of salt.

/me breathes slowly. thanks dood, needed that.

DB

[mynameis]

im on adsl2 and getting awesome speeds of close to 0.4m.. sux

Yeap posting on KB will increase your speeds

Call the helpdesk on 0800 22 55 98 and ask them to reset your port and look into it.

[mynameis]

Most of wellington sits on top of a multiple-earth neutral system that must have 20 tonnes of copper in it. Ie, its very difficult to pull the ground potential around during fault conditions. This is NOT THE CASE in a rural situation, where a substantial fault will cause a very large potential difference to arise between two points. Connect these two points with a long wire and you are asking for trouble.

Why do people think I talk through a hole in my arse ? I spent some time in this industry and my opinion counts for at least something. sheesh.

Just run a wireless link to some favourable ADSL. Gawd its dead fucking simple, and cheap too, and you can hook others up to it to recover more costs.

DB

And if they are living a few KM's away then ?? Hello, read the posts in the thread properly, they are rural and live Kilometers away.

If you come up with some concrete answers people will take you seriously. You may know a bit but one sentence answers hardly cut it. It's called Communication.

[mynameis]

After having Telescum out here AGAIN (10 times by my count) I've given up.

Asked them for another phone line (new number...you don't wanna know how much). Cheeky cow on the phone complained about the fact she could hardly hear me......I had to explain to her that it's her companies $hitty service that's causing that. Idiot.

So two arrived last week to "fix my line". "No, I've given up on that" says I..."you're here to install a new line". After half an hour or so tweedle dee and tweedle dumb waffle something about the exchange not having the ports configured properly or summit and bugger off. That was the start of last week and I haven't heard back yet.

Long story short. I'm still stuck with a @#$ckin phone line that folks can hardly hear me on and I've still got hillbilly broadband. Don't these clowns have any sort of standard of service they have to abide by or are the jobsworths in the beehive two busy pocketing their Telecom shares?

Number portability. Neither iHug nor Telescum knew anything about it. Two different peeps at Telecon told me that if I moved to another area then there's no way I could keep the existing number. So it looks like my best option is to pay for another line rental and have the first number diverting to the second....gah.

Someone call a wambulance. Please. If internet is so important pack your bags and move back to town. Bingo! Bobs your uncle. You've chosen a lifestyle and unfortunately you won't have all the luxuries.

As for number portability, it's when you switch from one PROVIDER to ANOTHER like from Telstraclear to Telecom then you can still carry their 9xxxx something something number.

[CookMySock]

And if they are living a few KM's away then ?? Hello, read the posts in the thread properly, they are rural and live Kilometers away. If you come up with some concrete answers people will take you seriously.

Ok, I give up. If the thread starter, or anyone else, would like some help to shoot a 20 fucking kilometer wireless link I'll be glad to help, but this "Helloooo?" bullshit is getting up my arse. Laters.

DB