they certainly can. Telstra wouldnt offer me any land based service at all. supposedly they couldnt offer adsl, couldnt offer cable (despite there being a cable running past the house, something about the cable going in before the house was built so too bad) and so would only offer me satelite..... im 17 kilometres from the cbd and thats the best they could do? lol
thankfully my house just scraped in to the nbn fibre rollout (my fence is the boundary) so i dont need to worry about it any more. well, until the libs really decide to go neanderthal and start replacing the fibre back to copper that they seem to be so in love with
tipper wrote: ill take some speed tests tonight when i get home Benny just for you just to prove im not bullshitting. mind you, i know the pain of slow net speeds. i suffered through nearly 9 years in this house with 1mbps on a good day, when it wasnt raining, and you held your tongue just right..... however, having now tasted the good life, ill never buy another house that doesnt have fibre to the premises. ill compromise on nearly everything else, as long as it isnt relying on ancient technology to connect to the modern world...
What would be the cause of 1mbps speed old wiring in the house? How much would that cost to fix? I don't even get that about 0.6mbps!
Quality of wiring Distance from the exchange
This. House was brand new. Just miles away from the exchange, and the copper between here and there is older than god.
Thats not uncommon for old areas that are been developed.
Just because new houses are in the area does not mean Telstra do anything.
Read my reply. It is directed at you because you have double standards
Telstra were letting the copper rot in the ground - that is slowly turn into copper oxide and hydroxide long before the NBN was proposed. I've seen inside some of the pits. They did string some underground fibre across my farm near Hahndorf back in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Subsequently I think they decided it was too costly to keep putting in and planned to let the copper rot and force everybody on to their mobile tower data system, which is even now expensive and patchy (perhaps due to oversubscribing).
However, I've been in Spain France and the UK over the last few weeks and logged on to fibre and cable systems via wifi at hotels and at friends' homes. My impression was that it was certainly faster when it was working but still tended to drop outs rather more often than was desirable. I'd be happy to get about 25mbps so long as it didn't drop out...
Internode have advised me FTTN will be available to me in February. (So have Telstra.) Any improvement on my present 4.7Mbps will be fine - will probably start with the 25/5Mpbs option.
I recently got a free upgrade from NBN Silver (nominal 25Mbps) to Gold (nominal 50Mbps) and checked on it - I'm getting 47+ for downloads and 18+ for uploads consistently. I've been on the NBN since March 2017 and have had 3 episodes of loss of service each fixed by re-booting the modem.
just to prove im not bullshitting. mind you, i know the pain of slow net speeds. i suffered through nearly 9 years in this house with 1mbps on a good day, when it wasnt raining, and you held your tongue just right..... however, having now tasted the good life, ill never buy another house that doesnt have fibre to the premises. ill compromise on nearly everything else, as long as it isnt relying on ancient technology to connect to the modern world...
