1 hour ago, Dr John Dee said:

This post got buried in the rush after the whispering fellow put the frighteners on everyone around here but I wanted to add that it's nice to have a professional eye coincide with my far more amateur one, 'bub.

I've scratched together a few technical perspectives over time and I wrote to nbn (I'm happy with their use of the lower case; more appropriate to their level of service) with a few questions about the location and capacities of the local fixed wireless tower. Received a page and half from them setting out my 'rights' under the FOI Act and likely schedules of fees etc etc. In another lifetime I used to handle FOI complaints for the Commonwealth Ombudsman so I was tempted to dust off my knowledge and make life miserable for them for a while but I doubt whether it'd achieve anything so I'm handing it all over to the local mp. Will I get anywhere? I doubt it. Even if we get a more reliable service it will only be a more reliable joke, as you say.

don't know if it is any help to you doc, but i believe nbn just recently launched their own satellite. i seem to remember reading that this would allow them to use new technology for a better faster solution for satellite users. i didn't pay much attention to it at the time (as it wouldn't affect me) but there may be some promise in it for you in the future. you might like to pursue that line of investigation? there again my memory might be wonky.

6 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

don't know if it is any help to you doc, but i believe nbn just recently launched their own satellite. i seem to remember reading that this would allow them to use new technology for a better faster solution for satellite users. i didn't pay much attention to it at the time (as it wouldn't affect me) but there may be some promise in it for you in the future. you might like to pursue that line of investigation? there again my memory might be wonky.

Thanks daisy. They made a lot of noise some months ago about the second satellite going up in October. I haven't heard anything since and I presume as a customer I'll get hear when it comes on stream. The satellite will be ok (albeit with various interruptions and slowdowns) until the wet starts but we can spend weeks under the sort of cloud that denies us any connection. Meanwhile we've hung onto a telstra mobile broadband service (marginal anyway). Between them we get by, but at around $170 a month. It's all a bit mad. 

On 12/11/2016 at 3:56 PM, Jesse Christ said:

It's been a blast, 5 years guys   Everyone I've ever had a disagreement with or rubbed the wrong way I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to, and everyone who's made me laugh (DA, Ethan, BBO, Biffen, rpfc) I love you guys.   This is me,  moving on. 

Adios muchachos, ladies  

Go you bloody demons!! 

Where are you going Sloon?

Hope you can report in from time to time.

2 hours ago, Biffen said:

Where are you going Sloon?

Hope you can report in from time to time.

Sloony has clearly decided to flee the United States of Trumperica and run away to an isolsted island somewhere in the Pacific. No, not Manus Island. A little to the left of Manus. It's an uncivilised populace, not as uncouth as Trumperica, but savage nonetheless. Where the locals survive only by raising livestock and digging up the mineral riches. I believe it's called Straya.

Good Luck Sloony. You'll need it.

Edited November 13, 20169 yr by Moonshadow

11 monday and this is nearly Gawn.

17 hours ago, Dr John Dee said:

Thanks daisy. They made a lot of noise some months ago about the second satellite going up in October. I haven't heard anything since and I presume as a customer I'll get hear when it comes on stream. The satellite will be ok (albeit with various interruptions and slowdowns) until the wet starts but we can spend weeks under the sort of cloud that denies us any connection. Meanwhile we've hung onto a telstra mobile broadband service (marginal anyway). Between them we get by, but at around $170 a month. It's all a bit mad. 

Could this be why you have not heard anything about it?  BBO "surfing" agian?

 

On 12/11/2016 at 3:56 PM, Jesse Christ said:

It's been a blast, 5 years guys   Everyone I've ever had a disagreement with or rubbed the wrong way I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise to, and everyone who's made me laugh (DA, Ethan, BBO, Biffen, rpfc) I love you guys.   This is me,  moving on. 

Adios muchachos, ladies  

Go you bloody demons!! 

Don't leave DL now JC you may need the virtual insanity of this site to distract you from the reality of life.

Also the rise of the Dees will provide some joy after the frustrations of the last 5 years you have been on site so the humour will no doubt rise to a new level also.

An alternative view is always welcome on this site where locker room banter prevails. Disagreement is appreciated to prolong interest and awaken satirical reference. Failure to rub someone the wrong way is a sign of intellectual incapacity and allows those with the sharpest wit to retort.

Hope your moving on has sufficient flexibility to visit occasionally 

14 minutes ago, AzzKikA said:

Could this be why you have not heard anything about it?  BBO "surfing" agian?

 

If this thread handed out awards that'd be a five bananas.

 

On 11/11/2016 at 0:07 PM, AzzKikA said:

What do you have, broadband?

Not NBN, but the fibre infrastructure will be.  It is already starting to be advertised for a replacement for land lines.

Yes Azz good old Big pond Cable old n reliable like me 

15 minutes ago, jackaub said:

Yes Azz good old Big pond Cable old n reliable like me 

Lucky SOB

Just saw the intro to landlinearticle on bananas looks particularly relevant.

hoping for a sighting of DLand experts.

On 11/12/2016 at 2:02 PM, daisycutter said:

four [censored] pages! this will be akin to the wanton destruction of the library at alexandria. at least thanks to modern technology we will have the wayback machine

DC, the new library is magnificent, sometimes we need to bulldoze the old to make way for the new.

We have had NBN wifi for ages in sunny outer Mansfield, inner Mansfield suffers with broadband?

On 13/11/2016 at 7:34 AM, Redleg said:

12 a bubbly day. 

Not if you're a Benedictine monk

20 hours ago, dpositive said:

Just saw the intro to landlinearticle on bananas looks particularly relevant.

hoping for a sighting of DLand experts.

 

Funghi in the Cavemdish crop. Or Big banana manipulating the market.

10 but I am not positive. 

2 hours ago, Biffen said:

 

Funghi in the Cavemdish crop. Or Big banana manipulating the market.

Got called out and missed the detail. But the intro showed a rugged looking individual talking of the difficulties that banana growers had faced and the potential of new strains. All sounded familiar having been an avid reader of this thread.

Certainly found that size doesn't matter after tasting the most delightful  fruit purchased from a roadside stand on a road trip through NSW.Small and looked A little green but 6 in the bunch for $3.00.

5 hours ago, Redleg said:

10 but I am not positive. 

so you mean -10, redleg?

5 hours ago, daisycutter said:

so you mean -10, redleg?

No I wasn't shaw. Didn't want to sound like an ass. 

Wednesday 9- placed on Tuesday because of how slow I am to put it up.

9 hours ago, daisycutter said:

so you mean -10, redleg?

Or -2 for those of us who speak binary ...

On 11/11/2016 at 8:15 AM, bazza226 said:

I am having similar internet issues at work - I have now signed up with TPG for a 10/10Mbps unlimited Gig service for $199/month + GST.

Hopefully that will speed up our system.

Do you know if the service contested?

This thread seems to be a de facto communications ombudsman .

There is a reason the government chooses to deny certain lunatics access to the internet which is why many of you here receive slower connection.

Dr  John may care to elaborate.

8 La Bamba.

So are there any other runners for our get together annual dinner on the 29th. So far only WJ, Old Dee, Beelzebub and me. 

It is all you can eat Japanese at $30 per head and scintillating Demons discussion.

Let me know on here by next wednesday and I will book for all interested.