[LINK] Back_in_your_box_NBN_Co_shuts_down_wir

stephen at melbpc.org.au stephen at melbpc.org.au
Sat Apr 14 16:17:17 AEST 2012


For Link interest, Bernard quotes ..

> "Everything is going to be wireless .. it’s all going to be mobile
> and wireless in the future."

Nonsense. From personal experience (the household now entirely wireless
phone and broadband), one would kill for the reliability of fixed cable.

Despite the Optus wireless broadband and mobile being consistently five
bars here in our country town (and Telstra consistently one or none) we
also consistently suffer from drop-outs about every 20-30 minutes or so. 

Wonderfull. Especially since Optus currently requires 10Mb every log-in.

These drop-outs (and hence subsequent re-logins to webmail etc etc) are 
despite all cookies etc being scrubbed after each session with MS 'disk 
clean-up', all Google etc 'scheduled tasks' disabled, and, no more than
two browser windows opened at any one time. This town is 800 people and
yet drop-outs are 24/7. I can't believe the service has lots of traffic.

Sure by being all-wireless we avoid fixed-line rental but the exchange
isn't naked-ADSL enabled without crackly-line rental paid, so wireless
is the only real alternative. Thus as this town is too small for a NBN
cable we hope the future NBN wireless will have a genuine USO drop-out
policy. Optus is certainly not troubled by drop-outs with a 10Mb login.

> It is believed that Chalke’s statement is highly inaccurate ..

Certainly hope so .. Optus five bar wireless broadband here is a pain.

Cheers,
Stephen



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