Thread: Bloody Telstra

Originally Posted by Hogarthde

An old engineer would install Jonesfam ‘Ariel ‘ on the flat roof,

and V8Ian’s aerial on the peak roof

²4?

Originally Posted by V8Ian

The lights had my full attention.

Mental Picture. Cop this.....

Ian with the 1000 yard stare looking into the distance through the dust at the red lights while reaching out like a man possessed as though looking for a drink of water having gone without for a couple of hundred miles, "Gimmmeee, Gimee, Gimmee".


Maybe I do him an injustice? I think not.

Originally Posted by Hogarthde

An old engineer would install Jonesfam ‘Ariel ‘ on the flat roof,

and V8Ian’s aerial on the peak roof

I might not be able to spell it but mines bigger than his!

Originally Posted by 4bee

You have my sympathy TR. I went through this a while ago (posted on here)

I guess the antenna doesn't look really all that bad on the roof after you get used to it, as it is up there with a SKY Dish, an existing F to A Yagi antenna & 6.5 KW of Solar panels. SPACEX 2?

My roof also looks like an antenna farm with a couple of 1.5 meter dish’s from previous failed satellite ISP’s i have tried over the years. Foxtel as we can’t get that via cable, a yagi, an omnidirectional UHF and two TV antennas which are a mixture of yagi and omnidirectional. Fortunately the dishes are on the far side of the roof which you don’t really see. And now waiting for this new Telstra ‘solution’ with another directional antenna which will no doubt be mounted on a mast bin the roof crest.

WRT other NBN ISP’s that are supposed to service my area there are more than 30 when you do a search in the NBN app. A mate of mine works for NBN and says there is really only one that is any good in this area and that is Telstra! So I am buggered, I really have no choice and I have been fighting Telstra for over two decades to get even basic reliable telephony services, fixed wire! (This is a high fire risk area so we really need the copper.) They don’t care, no money in residential. But if I keep poking them and annoying them hopefully I will get a better service than I have!

Plus and also jonesfam, the likely lads could play on your Ariel whereas Ian’s aerial is only good for one thing , irrespective of size

Paul's looks a lot more fun.

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I livve 71km by road, 53km by the crow from the Melbourne CBD.

We are on ADSL (download speeds of 4 and upload speeds of .7)

We get one bar 3G signal

NBN sent me a letter in April saying “NBN is due by June 30” - so I eagerly signed up.

In theory it will be FTTN.

Anyway - a week after signing up, I get another letter “Thanks for signing up, oh and your NBN is now due on December 31st”

Working from home due to Covid - myself and SWMBO is a major struggle due to bandwidth.

My boss doesn’t understand when I say “sorry I can’t do Zoom or any VC”

Anyway - the NBN is a National disgrace...

Rant over.

Originally Posted by grey_ghost

I livve 71km by road, 53km by the crow from the Melbourne CBD.

We are on ADSL (download speeds of 4 and upload speeds of .7)

We get one bar 3G signal

NBN sent me a letter in April saying “NBN is due by June 30” - so I eagerly signed up.

In theory it will be FTTN.

Anyway - a week after signing up, I get another letter “Thanks for signing up, oh and your NBN is now due on December 31st”

Working from home due to Covid - myself and SWMBO is a major struggle due to bandwidth.

My boss doesn’t understand when I say “sorry I can’t do Zoom or any VC”

Anyway - the NBN is a National disgrace...

Rant over.

Hi Grey_ghost

Yup, that’s my nightmare and the ADLS speeds are about the same. Complicated in my case by being out of work due to COVID. I had to rescheduled an interview last week as the ADSL was dead... not a good look at all..

Cheers - Simon