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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 17378 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: I'm having a really bad day with my TELSTRA [Bigp Reply #15 - May 30^th, 2020 at 2:03pm Wohoo, downloading... 955.7 MB/3.12 GB 5.2 MB/s 07m 09s That's without the overhead of ppp and tcpip, the interface is fluctuating between 5.5 and 6.9 MB/s
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Re: I'm having a really bad day with my TELSTRA [Bigp
Reply #16 - May 31^st, 2020 at 4:42am

Yadda wrote on May 29^th, 2020 at 6:27pm:

I'm 200km from my capital city.

And i can hardly load a web page [including an OzPol page] in my browser today.

Such is life, in rural Australia.

Oh, geez, let us send out the search party. You mean, you are 200km away from a capital city, but in sight of telephone lines and satellite dishes, etc. for the sake of you being able to use the internet?

I lose internet reception during a power or internet outage. It usually gets righted within minutes. Or on occasion, I can wait for hours. Just live with the fact that we all cannot get what I want.

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Re: I'm having a really bad day with my TELSTRA [Bigp
Reply #17 - May 31^st, 2020 at 8:47am

UnSubRocky wrote on May 31^st, 2020 at 4:42am:

Yadda wrote on May 29^th, 2020 at 6:27pm:

I'm 200km from my capital city.

And i can hardly load a web page [including an OzPol page] in my browser today.

Such is life, in rural Australia.

Oh, geez, let us send out the search party. You mean, you are 200km away from a capital city, but in sight of telephone lines and satellite dishes, etc. for the sake of you being able to use the internet?

I lose internet reception during a power or internet outage. It usually gets righted within minutes. Or on occasion, I can wait for hours.

Just live with the fact that we all cannot get what I want.

Yes.

I do. Wink

Oommmmm. [think meditation]

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"....And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
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Re: I'm having a really bad day with my TELSTRA [Bigp
Reply #18 - May 31^st, 2020 at 2:11pm

Yadda wrote on May 31^st, 2020 at 8:47am:

UnSubRocky wrote on May 31^st, 2020 at 4:42am:

Yadda wrote on May 29^th, 2020 at 6:27pm:

I'm 200km from my capital city.

And i can hardly load a web page [including an OzPol page] in my browser today.

Such is life, in rural Australia.

Oh, geez, let us send out the search party. You mean, you are 200km away from a capital city, but in sight of telephone lines and satellite dishes, etc. for the sake of you being able to use the internet?

I lose internet reception during a power or internet outage. It usually gets righted within minutes. Or on occasion, I can wait for hours.

Just live with the fact that we all cannot get what I want.

Yes.

I do. Wink

Oommmmm. [think meditation]

Best response.

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Re: I'm having a really bad day with my TELSTRA [Bigp
Reply #19 - Jun 3^rd, 2020 at 8:15pm

More fun with the NBN. My ISP has two VOIP options, $10 for unlimited calls or $0 and per call charge, there's no line rental with NBN, go with $0. So I ordered a new VOIP home number and am setting it up on the wife's iPhone(I know Sad

iPhone...) so she can use it anywhere around the house/yard over wifi to make/answer calls.

I have a Cisco 122 ATA that can forward calls and do other cool stuff so I can forward our normal home number calls to her/our other number. The phone does not have a sim, she uses it as a music player/facebook/email/etc thing over wifi. Now it will be able to make calls as well with a SIP app, all good. Then I set up VPN back to home from her phone so she can use it anywhere there's wifi she can connect to.

Might have to order another free number for my S6.

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Reply #20 - Jun 3^rd, 2020 at 8:23pm

Setanta wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2020 at 8:15pm:

More fun with the NBN. My ISP has two VOIP options, $10 for unlimited calls or $0 and per call charge, there's no line rental with NBN, go with $0. So I ordered a new VOIP home number and am setting it up on the wife's iPhone(I know Sad

iPhone...) so she can use it anywhere around the house/yard over wifi to make/answer calls.

I have a Cisco 122 ATA that can forward calls and do other cool stuff so I can forward our normal home number calls to her/our other number. The phone does not have a sim, she uses it as a music player/facebook/email/etc thing over wifi. Now it will be able to make calls as well with a SIP app, all good. Then I set up VPN back to home from her phone so she can use it anywhere there's wifi she can connect to.

Might have to order another free number for my S6.

huh? how do you do that? I have a voip but i keep a dedicated cabled phone just for that. I usually only get calls from spammers on that phone but I like to use the landline when I call overseas. Everything else comes to the mobile. It would be great if I can do the voip stuff with the mobile

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Our esteemed leader:
I hope that bitch who was running their brothels for them gets raped with a cactus.

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Reply #21 - Jun 3^rd, 2020 at 8:30pm

John Smith wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2020 at 8:23pm:

Setanta wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2020 at 8:15pm:

More fun with the NBN. My ISP has two VOIP options, $10 for unlimited calls or $0 and per call charge, there's no line rental with NBN, go with $0. So I ordered a new VOIP home number and am setting it up on the wife's iPhone(I know Sad

iPhone...) so she can use it anywhere around the house/yard over wifi to make/answer calls.

I have a Cisco 122 ATA that can forward calls and do other cool stuff so I can forward our normal home number calls to her/our other number. The phone does not have a sim, she uses it as a music player/facebook/email/etc thing over wifi. Now it will be able to make calls as well with a SIP app, all good. Then I set up VPN back to home from her phone so she can use it anywhere there's wifi she can connect to.

Might have to order another free number for my S6.

huh? how do you do that? I have a voip but i keep a dedicated cabled phone just for that. I usually only get calls from spammers on that phone but I like to use the landline when I call overseas. Everything else comes to the mobile. It would be great if I can do the voip stuff with the mobile

You can only use one number per device with my ISP at least. We had our old landline number ported to the new NBN VOIP. It's locked to that phone through the Cisco ATA and login to the ISP, I suppose I could turn off the ATA but that's inconvenient. So I ordered another home phone, think having two lines before NBN. It's free to have and per call cost, the same as the original PSTN ported number that is now VOIP. Use a VOIP app to use the new number on her phone, it's like a separate line. Then see above with VPN.

I do hope I'm making sense to you. If not, point out what you are having difficulty with.

Edit: I'd always wanted to play with Asterisk at the school, never had the opportunity as they were happy with what they had. Might be able yo have a limited play at home now with free phone numbers and a "make believe" internal phone system.

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Reply #22 - Jun 13^th, 2020 at 11:01pm

Anyway, I grabbed a couple of numbers, went to a public wifi, Lismore Square, and I used the numbers without VPN. I could call my mobile, I could call home as I checked the last called number on the Cisco 122, I could call my wife on her "home" voip number from my mobile and from my "home" voip number. The only thing I fond that was a problem was she could not call my mobile number. I'll have to try that again.

Now you may ask why, good question. For fun, to see how things work, to see what value it can provide as calls to the same ISP are free. I can call my wife and tell her I need another beer, that's got to be a plus, unless she leaves he phone behind but she likes her music too much for that.

I tried call farwarding with the SPA122, no, doesn't work. Sad

I might have to contact the ISP and whine like Stiffy.

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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 59113 Gender:	Re: I'm having a really bad day with my TELSTRA [Bigp Reply #23 - Jun 14^th, 2020 at 5:47pm I hate Telstra. That's my Telstra password. No chance of ever forgetting it.
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juliar Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 22966	Re: I'm having a really bad day with my TELSTRA [Bigp Reply #24 - Jun 22^nd, 2020 at 1:54pm Fork out and you can get a 100Mb/s fiber optic cable connected right to your home. Just ask NBN and they will be happy to oblige.
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