Tag Archives: Connectivity

The joke that is Bigpond Tech Support Email

Back in December, when I was having issues with connectivity. Which oddly enough was a problem for most ISP’s, although everyone else had routed traffic over alternate links. Bigpond on the other hand made uses suffer for some 2-3 days … Continue reading

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Operation iPhone 3G

Of course today was all about the iPhone. As you would expect considering Australia finally got the iPhone 3G. My wife had a plan of attack which involved going to work earlier then usual, so that she could go join … Continue reading

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Apple iPhone 2.0 Applications

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 … Continue reading

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ADSL provisioned… at a cost

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 … Continue reading

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Telstra Bigpond tatics

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

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Options when you can’t get ADSL

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 … Continue reading

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All wired up

Today was the day that we wired up the house. A friend with the help of his own brother came to install all the wiring for the alarm system. So that’s all the sensors in various rooms and also the … Continue reading

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Three X-Series

On the account that the ADSL service (if you could call it that) is being terminated finally tomorrow, I’ve been looking to see what we could get to use for about 2 more months while the house is finished off. … Continue reading

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Internet Issues

If it’s not known, but since getting ADSL some 4 months ago it’s been a huge problem. Constantly being disconnected and loosing sync all the time. It follows a pattern, but basically went from every 20mins loosing sync, to every … Continue reading

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