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Originally Posted by MrB
Tell ME about it, I live in a major city(not far from Malcolm actually) and can't get any broadband.
Dialup or nuthin. Too far from the exchange.
Mobile Broadband? Don't make me laugh.
Besides it being a massive rip-off, I'm not even going to try it because my 3G mobile phone always says '2.5G' when I'm at home.
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Unfortunately, with ADSL (and more especially, ADSL2+), distance rules. Anything more than around 4km cabling wise is going to be problematic with both noise and occupancy issues (not to mention attenuation). Telstra wholesale generally limits new connections - if you've applied for ADSL2+ and the speed is going to be less than a 1500 kbps connection, they'll reject it. If you're a certain distance or greater from the exchange, they'll automatically reject it too. Then there's pair gain (PGC) issues, RIM issues, etc. People take it for granted that they can get ADSL. The technology slows the further you are away from the exchange (it's just how it works, griping about it won't fix it or change it).
Dave
PS I work for an ISP - I see this all the time. And no, I work for a real ISP, not some lvl 1 craphead at Bigpond, sloptus etc that doesn't know what they're doing. I have full access to all our SIP servers, hosted webservers, hosted exchange server, sql dbase (both ms sql and mysql varieties), dns servers, and our core routers and switches (core router is a larger Redback, can serve up to 2 million connections, not a cheap piece of gear - I have full level 15 sysadmin access to said device, see how many bigpond techies have this level of access!).