Monthly Archives: August 2007

New News: Telstra dislikes G9 proposal Pt 2

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 … Continue reading

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New News: Telstra dislikes G9 proposal

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 … Continue reading

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Labor’s Tony Kelly: OPEL is second rate broadband

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 … Continue reading

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Optus changes other plans for fusion

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 … Continue reading

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Bush Broadband to push forward

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: … Continue reading

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Telstra holding back kids education

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 … Continue reading

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Costs of a Broadband Service

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 … Continue reading

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Broadband Bitchfight

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 … Continue reading

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Invite to Forum on Labor’s Excuse for a Broadband Plan

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 … Continue reading

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8Mbit Goodness – really good!

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. … Continue reading

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Expensive Shopping

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 … Continue reading

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iiNet allowing users to resell wireless IP access

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 … Continue reading

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Skype is back

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 … Continue reading

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Skype approaches another day of downtime

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 … Continue reading

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Skype remains problematic

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 … Continue reading

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New System Migration Complete

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 … Continue reading

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Waste of Taxpayer funds: Question Time

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 … Continue reading

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The importance of BACKUP

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 … Continue reading

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What if I were CEO of Telstra?

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 … Continue reading

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Partition Resize = Bad

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 … Continue reading

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Confiscation? What confiscation?

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 … Continue reading

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One reason NOT to vote Labor

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 … Continue reading

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Telstra upgrades to 30Mbps, and does what it is good at.

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, … Continue reading

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Guidelines for new Broadband Network released

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 … Continue reading

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Are Consumers Prepared To Pay?

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? … Continue reading

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Labor and its inconsistent broadband plan

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 … Continue reading

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Telstra: How low can they go?

In another delay tactic move, Telstra has chosen to play a personal card against the Minister for Communications herself, the intelligent Senator Helen Coonan. Telstra’s move is basically legal action to sue the Minister herself for alledgedly agreeing to the … Continue reading

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Bigpond Cable to go as fast as 30Mbps at September

Telstra, while bitching at the government for not giving into their temper tantrums and linking possible investment by other companies to both, global warming and terrorism, has decided that they will apparently take some of the $4.1 billion flagged for … Continue reading

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Telstra: Terror threat if we don’t get our way

In what can only be believed as a temper tantrum from the big baby themselves, Telstra’s public affairs nuisance Phil Burgess recently was cited in the media. Basically, Fat Phil states that if Telstra didn’t get their way with their … Continue reading

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WSUS 3, Upgrade from WSUS2 Fails!

I have a Windows Server Update Services Server and recently an update came out to update the updater. Unfortunately, the updater didn’t like the update, and has for the last days (spread over a few hours) taken a lot of … Continue reading

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