I am blown away by the number of applications that will be available by the Apple App store. The keynote that shows a sample of these applications is simply amazing.
This device is going change how a lot of us work and communicate.
I’ll consider the purchase of one in the near future.
The phone service was fixed by about 10am yesterday. It would appear the fault was probably at the RIM as we thought. Which ironically means I was entirely correct in saying the DSL tech who did the ADSL activation caused it.
All fixed, but it did take them longer then expected. At least ADSL remained intact.
My wife had a nice little argument with a Telstra Supervisor just on Tuesday. It appears our attempt got parked. So she proceeded to let them have it.
By the time that 30min call ended, they had found a port and set the service to provisioning.
Wednesday evening it had DSL sync and working.
Unfortunately it came at a cost. That cost was the fact the foolish person who provisioned it, managed to screw our voice service. Yes, you guessed it. We now have no dial tone on our phone service. So I can’t make calls or even accept them.
Logged a fault today, they said it will be fixed by Tuesday. Of course I got the usual spill about troubleshooting, so I repeated myself a few times to indicate it was fine until your incompetent tech attempted to enable DSL. Before that, never had a issue. After that, no dial tone. Unbelievable.
In any case the ADSL1 1500 line speed seems fine. It’s stable and as fast as it should be for this service. Attainable line rate appears to be not crash hot, but it’s fine for the service I have. So that’s good enough for me. Just a real shame they had to kill our phone service in the process. Wish I checked it 2 days ago. We don’t usual use the land line during the week..
In other news though, 2 days after my wife’s call the Telstra Wholesale report came out and indicated that several days earlier the RIM had 40 available ports. Be interesting to see how many of those are still available in the new report due out on Monday I believe.
Those who have been following the Broadband saga would know I was waiting on Telstra to provide more ADSL ports to our local RIM.
Our 3rd application attempt as made back on 22/11/07 was put in hold and has been in hold until today.
In that time, my neighbour moved in next door about 3 months or so ago and attempted to get his service transferred, but was unable to do so. Of course no available ADSL ports.
I arrive home yesterday evening to find out my neighbour just got his ADSL activated with Bigpond, yet my Internode service hadn’t happened yet. Talk about being really annoyed.
I’d previously called Bigpond months ago and was told they had no ADSL ports according to the online system. But when I called lastnight they advised they had some. So my wife and I opted to apply immediately, as it would appear Bigpond give it’s own customer preference, when they probably shouldn’t. So at this stage I’ve been advised the service should be provisioned by 2nd April. Will be interesting to see if it happens, I certainly hope it does. As much as I don’t want to be with Bigpond, we will make it work for the period in which we have to do so. Just be nice to finally get ADSL, as I haven’t had a decent ADSL service for probably close to 2 years.
Stay tuned, I will provide updates as they happen. Long weekend will delay the process a little, but hopefully we should see some updates mid next week.
Months and months later, I am still awaiting Telstra to provide ADSL port relief to our local RIM.
We’ve been advised from Internode that Telstra is indicating end of March. Of course the last time I was advised something it came and went with no change. That was in January.
I am really hoping that ADSL port relief happens real soon, you can only accept using unwired for so long.
The application was rejected, as per before. No ports available in the RIM, and well no ETA for upgrade. I guess we will just have to apply every 2-4 weeks until it happens. In the meantime I emailed the Federal Member, although that probably won’t do alot. I might look at getting some other affected people involved, soon as I determine what my best actions would be.
In the meantime decided the best alternative is probably to pickup an Unwired modem and use Unwired. It’s not entirely ideal, as I can’t work from home. But I can atleast use the internet for various things as required. Further more it will allow us to get our guide data to our devices on the network that require it.
I’ve since obtained a modem from a friend 2nd hand, just need to enable it and pay up for a plan etc. The only thing I need to do is save up to buy a router to run it, although in the meantime I might pull out an old machine and run Linux to do the job (until I can budget the cost of the router in).
It would appear the local exchange or cabinet our phone runs too is out of ADSL ports on the CMUX, so no ADSL until it gets upgraded. Of course, no one can tell us when. Guess I will let the application stay in held state and stay in queue for an available port.
With the estate booming, no paper pusher decided to upgrade the infrastructure, which is REALLY annoying. Guess I might write a letter to local member and start to annoy the right people.
Damn Telstra.