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


That sucks. Our ADSL went out on the 26th and I phoned support, was told there was a problem and it should be fixed in 24h. Rang back the next day as ADSL still had no sync. Was told I had signed up to the NBN which was true and the ADSL was switched off which is false as far as my account page says. Anyway they told me to plug in the delivered NBN NCD which I did and connected up my ethernet to it kicked up PPP on my Linux box and away it went. The ADSL router I was using was in bridged mode anyway allowing my Linux box to handle authentication, get the static IP etc.

Today I received the router from my ISP that is set up to do PPP, wireless etc but I don't need that. I already have what I need, wireless, Cisco ATA(analogue phone to VOIP box) but because I'm not officially switched over I have no phone. On the plus side I'm still officially on an ADSL plan and getting 49Mbps down and 19Mbps up.

STATUS: My new nbn™ connection
xxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxx Lismore NSW 2480
Service no. xxxxxxxxxxx
Service type Fibre To The Curb
Service class 33
Data Unlimited
Speed tier Standard Plus nbn50
Order received by xxxxxxxxxxxxx 22 May 2020
Expected activation date -- To be advised
Technician appointment time -- To be advised
Modem dispatched
My service is active -- To be advised
Information needed. Hold or rejected.  -- To be advised

So as you can see the NBN is not supposed to be activated yet. Yippee for me really fast ADSL! The original ADSL outage is now not supposed to be resolved until the 2 June.

edit: Currently 8:30pm so it's the time for congestion and slowdowns but...
PING ms DOWNLOAD Mbps UPLOAD Mbps
24          46.36                   15.15

From what i've heard, a lot of folks would rather stay with ADSL, rather than transition to the NBN.




I have no experience with either.          

I went straight from dial-up, to wifi !    haha

Yadda wrote on May 29^th, 2020 at 9:19pm:


FTTC is VDSL, the DSLAM is in the ground out the front instead of in the exchange and powered by the NCD in your house. There is a mix in this NBN thing. I would have preferred FTTP but FTTC is g.fast capable but set to VDSL at the moment. Not much different to ADSL except where the DSLAM lives.

Yadda wrote on May 29^th, 2020 at 9:43pm:


OK, just don't stop eating, breathing and shitting while you wait or you will be worrying about that shite for a lot less time than you should.

Baronvonrort wrote on May 29^th, 2020 at 9:49pm:


I think, going from what he said about distance, is that he has a wireless plan, his data comes across probably the 4G network to his home and the wireless sometimes gets slow. Ethernet connections will only be local and won't help as the link that is the problem is the wireless that connects him to the world. IE not really WIFI more like the data connection your smart phone has.

Setanta wrote on May 29^th, 2020 at 9:27pm:


Be the computer.
Ommm

It's human error.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=hal+9000+-+the+fault&&view=detail&mid=3CE2A...

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

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



Yes.

I do.             



Oommmmm.      [think meditation]

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 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.

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


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.

I hate Telstra.

That's my Telstra password.  No chance of ever forgetting it.