February 28, 2015 What to do when the NBN comes to town: Copper cable cut Being at one of the early release sites, it’s now been over a year since I moved to the NBN. In truth, I did…
November 30, 2013 What to do when the NBN comes to town: Connection day With the CPE boxes installed and the fibre tail dug into your house, the third, and final, NBN contractor appointment brings the two ends…
September 29, 2013 What to do when the NBN comes to town: ONT time After waiting some time expecting to be notified of fibre availability in my area, and with the election nigh, I went ahead and selected…
August 30, 2013 What to do when NBN comes to town: fibre fandango A few weeks after the pits have been upgraded in your area the product at the centre of the whole national broadband network debate…
July 29, 2013 What to do when NBN comes to town: RSP redux When was the last time you received some internet service provider advertising material in your letterbox? AOL CDs anyone? When the NBN comes to…
July 30, 2008 Mobile data mayhem After some five years as a Telstra mobile customer I’m almost certainly going to churn when my two-year contract concludes next month. Now there’s…
January 20, 2008 Routing problems @ Exetel My friendly ISP is experiencing some routing problems. I lodged a support ticket yesterday indicating I could not reach my blog from Telstra’s ADSL…
October 15, 2007 Broadband speed bump After my previous bitching and moaning about the speed of my new ADSL2+ connection, a routine upgrade surprised the hell out of me today….
July 31, 2007 I’m back in business My new DSL service came online over the weekend so I’m now back online. I haven’t heard boo from Exetel so I will assume…
July 27, 2007 The wheels are in motion I’ve received at least one e-mail and phone call indicating my new DSL service request has been acknowledged. Well that’s a relief. Now, apparently,…
July 25, 2007 The cable is cut… Well, so, my old DSL connection is no more. I was away from my house over the weekend so I’m unsure of the exact…
July 9, 2007 Trouble in high-speed paradise Darn it, I knew it was too good to be true. My friendly ISP sent me an e-mail a few weeks ago stating that…
January 17, 2007 Churn baby churn As mentioned, today was set down as the big churn day. Well churn it did! I’m now on an Exetel 8Mbps ADSL service with…
January 12, 2007 Let the churn begin Not satisfied with my existing 1.5Mbps ADSL from Westnet I decided to churn to a 8Mbps with Exetel upon advice from a friend. I…