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(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:27AM (9 children)
Router says 2303 kpbs down, 637 kpbs up.
middle of the day, about as good as it gets.
Apparently, the "average" is ten times faster that what I can get.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/australia-s-broadband-slower-than-kazakhstan-20180108-p4yyb1.html [smh.com.au]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @10:02AM (2 children)
Your situation with the telco monopoly may about to undergo improvement. [abc.net.au] Got to say, the installation and CPE I've seen in Australia are all high standard.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday June 21 2018, @11:37AM (1 child)
Yes, Telstra isn't the company it once was..
But for now,for broadband, we still have to buy from someone who buys from nbnco [nbnco.com.au]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday June 27 2018, @03:14AM
Not true. I got sick of being yanked around by NBNCo when I recently moved - it seemed that they were never going to be able to get me connected. After a couple of weeks I "pulled the plug" and went wireless.
There are a few providers out there offering pricing roughly around NBN prices. However, I was up and running that day rather than waiting for months, don't suffer slowdown in the evenings (partly because I only tell people outside of my base tower area about how great it is) and can take it with me on holiday.
Speed are around 9-10Mbps, which is enough for Netflix, gaming etc.
(Score: 3, Informative) by mhajicek on Sunday June 24 2018, @03:36AM (3 children)
Kicked Comcast to the curb two days ago. They kept jacking up the bill to the point they wanted $200 for TV and internet. Doing this on my phone with two bars of LTE. Might get DSL.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @12:37AM
But... Concast execs need a new MBZ, because the old ones need an oil change.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday July 11 2018, @02:16PM (1 child)
So you've switched to an LTE ISP in a Comcast-serviced (that is, United States) market. How many GB per month do you get for tethering?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 14 2018, @04:52AM
Not GP, but...
T-mobile does not condone tethering on my plan*, but it appears that all t-mobile does, currently, to detect tethering is user agent sniffing. Running with a mobile browser user agent is annoying, but if you have a box you can ssh into, sshuttle works, a real vpn, or, if you don't have something to ssh/vpn into, tor will also foil their detection.
Negatives are:
1) you have to watch how much data you use, T-mobile throttles you to edge speeds after 5GB.
2) some sites will ban you since cheap VPSs/tor are used by scammers, and folks tend to block entire netblocks/all tor exit nodes.
Positives are:
1) Told Charter to pound sand after they eliminated the speed tier I was on, and tried to double what they were charging me for a slightly faster plan.
2) works anywhere I have service.
* I'm using t-mobile pre-paid $30/mo, 100min voice (just use voip; google hangouts is free for US destinations, callcentric is cheap for everything else), unlimited text, and unlimited data (throttled after 5GB).
(Score: 2) by driverless on Monday June 25 2018, @01:10PM
That's because in Kazakhstan the politicians didn't have to make the hand party for the telcos. Jagshemash!
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Sunday July 15 2018, @01:34AM
The internet connectivity in Australia is ridiculous. 1st world country with availability not in parity with just that.
Perhaps time to get a direct connectivity to the sea cable directly? :P
Perth and Sydney are the spots where these cables land. Share with other users and get even lower costs.
Traralgon is near the three connections to Tasmania.
Obviously there's a squid in the system that screws it up for everyone. Time to take action. And perhaps make a business in the process.