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Thread: leaving Telstra for another Co
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29th March 2010, 07:43 PM #31
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29th March 2010, 07:55 PM #32
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29th March 2010, 09:55 PM #33
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29th March 2010, 10:09 PM #34
Billion are great. I have the 7401 VGO thingy. Excellent support from the company too if anything goes wrong (I had issues about 18 months back with Voip codecs and the techs were excellent). The router costs something like $140-ish with VOIP wireless, ADSL2+ modem, router, 4 port switch (all the good bits). I had a similar netcomm (NB9W) beforehand and they were very fragile. Several people I knew had them and they all bought the dust after about 18 months or so.
Nope - Owned by SOUL or some such thing. They use Agile DSLAMS (the bit of kit in the exchange that your phone line phsycally plugs into), Telstra use their own. The only common route that your data takes is the 'last mile' of copper (and of course any uplink to Telstra from TPG...). Two very, very different companies at opposite ends of the pricing (and support) spectrum.
Cheers,
Dave
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31st March 2010, 04:38 PM #35
Put everything in place today, so the wheels are turning. So far so good, except they were wrong about being able to bundle adsl2, home phone and mobiles. It's any two of the three. So it's costing me an extra $5 a month for the mobile but still easily $80 less than our average telstra bill.
Oh and I rang T to ask wwhat they could do to entice me to stay. Pretty well zip. If fact, exactly zip. OK
Now I need to get a modem.
cheers
Michael
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31st March 2010, 04:45 PM #36
Cool! Hope the process is fairly painless - going to ADSL2 does involve physically plugging your phone line into new equipment, so there's always a slight outage.
I would recommend the Billion range (I think the relevant one is 740x...) - they have some nice all in one units (modem/router/wireless/voip), which I have found to be good and have recommended previously, with success. If you use a price search engine/google/whatever, you should be able to find somewhere fairly local that you can buy them from at reasonable price. Probably mid $150's range.
Cheers,
Dave
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31st March 2010, 05:11 PM #37
thanks for the recommendation Dave. Bit more than I wanted to spend on the modem. I currently have a wireless D-link router dwl-900ap, 11mbps which I was hoping to get away with for a bit longer. Hope it's not too archaic.
Cheers
Michael
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31st March 2010, 06:44 PM #38
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31st March 2010, 06:48 PM #39
no Dave, no voip. dearly beloved and I skype each other, esp if she's away OS, but that's not the voip I think you're talking about.
cheers
Michael
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31st March 2010, 06:50 PM #40
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1st April 2010, 01:51 PM #41
I got an opinion from Darren at Ozcableguy this morning about what modem (<$100 ) to get and the Billion 7301vgp with voip/wireless was one of three recommendations he made. So I bought the Billion on the basis of the glowing reports from you guys! If it's no good I'll be tracking you all down...
TPG comms so far have been excellent, they seem to be sending a notification email for every advancement of my order.
cheers
Michael
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1st April 2010, 02:14 PM #42
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15th April 2010, 09:08 PM #43
TPG activated the adsl today, but I had to ring for technical advice on the router set up and boy the tech person was good. Had me sorted out lickety-split. SWMBO's Mac just connected itself (well after I gave her the password), mine was a bit of a fiddle. Connection's much faster than the cable, although the old d-link wireless router might have slowed that down a tad. So far so good with tpg.
Cheers
Michael
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15th April 2010, 10:21 PM #44
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