TOCPCs – The Elite Geeks Blog

Continued from yesterday, moving through to Page 9 of the mammoth PDF that is Telstra’s trash about why the ACCC shouldn’t accept the G9 proposal, we see more invalid rubbish from the rubbish that wrote it, Telstra. 1. It does not promote effecient competition. – Rubbish. The G9 model is all about competition. Everyone buys [...]

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It’s not really new news, any idiot could have guessed that Telstra would not like G9′s proposal at all. Would you like the idea of someone else coming along, and being able to pay you a fair price for access to your copper wire, and selling it to consumers, and other ISPs for less than [...]

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Leanne replied with this .. ridiculous comment: Jason, You are just confirming my whole point…THANKS. iiNet don’t want to invest incase they don’t make money or only a small profit or go broke, or as you say “it is too risky”. So what you mean is Telstra should let all the other Telco’s use or [...]

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Recently, Labor Member, Regional Development Minister for NSW, Tony Kelly can be echoed in the media as stating that the voters should decide on broadband. Mr Kelly believes that OPEL could leave Regional and Rural broadband users with “second rate broadband”. I raise a few points directly with him via email, no reply yet, and [...]

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Leanne, the person who thinks you can get broadband for $3.20, replied on NWAT with: So Jason, What I should be jumping up and down about is the fact that iiNet do not supply ADSL2 in my area. Why not? Is it becoause I don’t live in Brisbane Sydney Melbourne Adelaide or Perth, are their [...]

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Optus has had great success with the fusion phone and internet bundles that it has decided to revamp the rest of its product line up. As early as the start of next month, the current Optus plan line up will be modified to suit the likes of the fusion plans, with some interesting changes. The [...]

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Telstra’s attempt at delaying the OPEL rollout is one which will fail. Some considerations need to be placed to decide just how far Telstra are going to try and go, to stop any form of regional broadband investment. Consideration 1: Telstra is the only supplier in Regional areas. They have a conflict of interest here, [...]

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Telstra is the real cause of children not being able to access the resources they might be able to over the internet to further their own education. Telstra’s broadband plans are far from giving users the freedom to access the information available on the public internet, with plans containing a puny 200Mb of data, users [...]

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At a consumer level, there’s little in the way of pricing structure of a service. Recently on Telstra’s Now We Are Talking site, Leanne made comments that iiNet get her service for $3.20 and charge her $xx.xx for it. This would be completely incorrect, as the true costs of supplying a service reach far beyond [...]

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Leanna replied on NWAT with: Jason, You missed the whole point of my entry. And that is exactly what I am talking about.(see Vasso’s comment) I don’t care weather Telstra/iiNet/Optus/Dodo makes a profit or loss and how much or how little it is. And neither do thousands of other Aussies. What my point was and [...]

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The two words I can think to sum up the arguments frrom Telstra, Labor, Optus and our current government to be somewhat of a bitchfight. We see Telstra slamming any moves by our government to introduce competitive, lower priced broadband services across the nation. We see Labor slamming any moves by our current government to [...]

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Here’s a recent comment from Now We Are Talking: After all the info that is available, I can’t believe that people still want to blame Telstra for either the lack of speed (download limits etc)and/or the costs of their broadband. Telstra has to sell to other ISP’s at below their cost, because the ACCC said [...]

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Today in the mail I received an invite to a forum conducted by the Labor party, faking an interest in Central Coast broadband services. They state that the new network would be 40 times faster than current speeds.. So, 40 times faster than 8Mbit (my current speed) is 320Mbit. Sweet. Got my vote! Not. The [...]

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I have finally done it. I have told Netspace where to shove their incompetence. I am now a happy Exetel customer, with a sweet 8Mbit connection, with courtesy of Telstra, upload artifically capped for no believable technical reason to 384kbps. We are approximately 2.5km from exchange, with a dB reading, which increased when changed to [...]

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It’s not every so often you go shopping for higher priced items, such as new servers, or cars, but well, both of our new purchases are both coming together at around the same time! 1. A new machine I’ve got myself my new machine up and running in the last 2 weeks, and I’m still [...]

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iiNet teamed up with Tomizone are allowing users to resell wireless internet access! This is a great idea, as one of the bigger set backs in many other countries, and obviously forming in Australia with growth in wireless is users tapping another users internet connection, either by wardriving, or poor network security process (plug and [...]

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At long last, Skype returned back to normal operation today, and has been stable. Why on earth it took so long is a question that only the developers could answer, or why on earth the issue came up to start with after a long period of reliability, and no significant changes occurring that are obvious [...]

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Skype has continued to suffer from sign on issues, and is now approaching another day of downtime. A report on Skype’s heartbeat page (their own status page), mentions they are no where near complete, but are in a better position than they were yesterday. I disagree. Skype’s downtime has continued throughout the entire time, funnily [...]

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Skype has since yesterday remained very problematic, and not able to maintain sign in! The issue has gone on so far for nearly 24 hours, which isn’t good considering it’s one of the leading chat / phone programs on the internet, and one would think being eBay owned, they’d throw a lot more resources at [...]

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I’ve finally done the big move. It took 2 weeks of on again, off again configuration, installation, and migration, but at last, I’ve migrated to my new system! Hardware: * CPU: Intel E6750 CPU (Dual Core 2.66Ghz / 1333 FSB / 4MB Cache) It has some great grunt! I don’t remember seeing Windows take 10 [...]

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For some unknown reason, the TV was left on ABC today, and was probably on it for most of the day. After all the Children’s cartoons flew by, I started hearing the sounds of what can only be described as a waste of time. Let’s not focus on the fact that I was watching it, [...]

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I can never stress the importance of a backup enough. The same person that had the partition resize issue that other day was having problems starting an application. It turned out that a while back he had a severe system issue and basically the fix was to reinstall windows on a new drive (smaller though), [...]

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That’s an interesting thought. If I were CEO of Telstra, what would things be like, what would I do differently to the current (and past CEOs). Let me first state that the idea of a listed company is to release returns for its shareholders, and get them a return on their investment in the company, [...]

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I was working with someone else on a system today that had an issue with a lack of disk space. This machine was loaded with a fair bit of software, and I don’t think the user was keen on dropping all the software to save on space, and I imagine rightly so too. You install [...]

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I was browsing Whirlpool recently, and discovered that a user was posting that the G9 consortium proposed to “rip out” part of Telstra’s copper network lead me to believe that some are blindly believing the crap spewed out on Telstra’s propaganda machine, or that some people believe a article on “The Australian’s” website is free [...]

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If you ever wanted a good reason not to vote Labor (aside from the many good reasons out there already, such as Labor’s previous financial mismanagement, or Labor’s Communications n00b, Stephen Conroy being demonstrated as uninformed by the current Communications .. well, better than n00b, but she’s no script kiddie, Helen Coonan, some time ago [...]

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Telstra has decided to proceed and upgrade its Cable network to offer 30Mbps. But, it didn’t stop there however, it has decided that it will only upgrade the speeds to 30Mbps and offer those speeds to 67% of the population, again, something Telstra are specialists in, is limiting the service a consumer can get. This [...]

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A new release on the DCITA website is the Expert Taskforce guidelines for the provision of a broadband network to Metro and Major Regional Australia funded solely by the private sector. They have released draft guidelines for any interested parties to comment on. I jumped on this as soon as I could and found some [...]

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That’s the magical question put forth to the leaders today when they are ready to go forth and choose a supplier to win the rights to building Australia’s First FTTN network. Are consumers prepared to pay more for faster speeds? Ask yourself (to Telstra): Do you think consumers care more about the speed of their [...]

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This isn’t a post to tear Labor apart, but rather, just to highlight some of what is spat by Senator Stephen Conroy. He recently wrote an article for The Australian (so it is biased), stating that in mid-2009, Coonan’s plan of spending $1 billion bucks on giving Regional Australia competition could prove to be a [...]

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