UnSubRocky wrote on May 12^th, 2023 at 11:45pm:

No you moron.  I called to find out why they redirected my business number to a third party. I know it's beyond you but that is not good for business and costs me money.

It's like stupidity reigns supreme on this forum.

Jovial Monk wrote on May 13^th, 2023 at 7:52am:


I've got a few customers who have tried that starlink and they're very happy with it. Maybe you should try that

Jovial Monk wrote on May 13^th, 2023 at 12:26am:


Friends of ours who live in Ballajura (about 15km north of the Perth CBD) had Telstra cable for nearly 20 years until they got (i.e. HAD to get - they had no choice) NBN about 2 or 3 years ago.

Their whole area was wired with coaxial cable when it was being established in the 80's. They had virtually unlimited download speed with cable (I believe the upload speed was fairly slow but that didn't matter to them). In fact, their download speed was only limited by the capacity of wherever they were downloading from. I remember watching him download something at 130Mbps when I was there one day in the early 2000's.

Can't remember what their data allowance was per month but I believe it was pretty generous.

They also had Foxtel through the coaxial cable. The home phone used the 'old fashioned' copper wires which they had to use for dial up internet until they had cable set up about 2002 and their home phone still used the copper wires until they got NBN.

When they were connected to the NBN they got HFC - Hybrid Fibre/Coaxial except that they're now paying more for a 50/20 plan with NBN than they were with their previous 'unlimited download speed' cable.

They tried 25/5 to start with but they do a lot of downloading and streaming, etc. and he and his wife have separate PC's which are both used at the same time a lot.

And to top it all off their home phone has never worked properly since it was connected to HFC (through their modem) despite numerous calls to Telstra to try and get it sorted out. The phone always drops the calls within a minute or two of the calls being connected.

It worked perfectly with the old copper wires from when they built the place in 1988 until they got NBN.

They don't care about the home phone now anyway because (like nearly everyone else these days) they use their mobiles.

Marla wrote on May 13^th, 2023 at 6:39am:


At least you live in a country with a comprehensive telecommunications industry. In Australia, you only get good service in the major cities and regional centres. Rural areas with small townships, you might as well be using smoke signals.

I must have some good Karma banked somewhere, as I've been with Telstra since first getting the internet connected.

I started-off with a pre-paid dialup account in 2008 (slow and expensive), but quickly moved to mobile broadband (fast, but very expensive).

Got the NBN (unlimited d/l) through them in around 2015, which I still have.

My phone (Samsung A12) is with Telstra pre-paid - $30 per month is the 'sweet spot' for me, with unlimited calls and texts, and a decent data allownce , which is bankable. No issues there, either.

And I've literally never had any serious issues with them.

Yes - I have had to reboot the modem/router occasionally, but that's always my first step when troubleshooting, and generally fixes
the issue(s) there and then.

freediver wrote on May 13^th, 2023 at 10:19am:



If microsoft causes my computer to not do what it's supposed to do, damn oaf I'll call microsoft.

And I know it was telstra because it couldn't have been anyone else. Either deliberately or in how they set up the back ups. Ultimately they are responsible. I rely don't care what you rely on. You can continue to make up stories in your head or you can try to learn something, either way it's no skin off my nose.

Been around the world with phone companies and 10yrs later, I'm back with helstra.
It sucks, but they're the only ones that have the coverage.
Optus are okay, but it will let you down.

I hate it, but I need it.