Hi Barry,
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Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes
But I have a bigpond wireless that I use at Wiruna. It normally gets switched on as soon as I lose ADSL. I just pull the LAN cable out of the one and plug it into the other. It is almost a no break system.
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We use a NextG connection when we travel within Australia.
The irony is that we can get a signal on the observing fields of Wiruna but not here
at our location in Sydney.
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We used to have a phone on the local exchange near you. Mt Kuringai 16
The local manual exchange was manned by the local general store man a Mr. Hamilton (if you could raise him). I learnt to use the phone there as Cub. I had to pass a message to pass a test. (circa 1944). There were about 8 lines on your side of the line. You probably have one of them 
Barry
PS The message was "The plane will leave Essendon at 8 PM" short and sweet. I did not even know where Essendon was in those days.
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What you might have lacked in Victorian geography knowledge at the time as a Cub,
you certainly have made up for with such a good memory.
But when you consider the copper lines themselves, essentially nothing has changed
since those days. They were never designed to carry high-speed digital signals.
These days I tend to carry in my wallet some copper wire fragments that a
Telstra linesmen presented me with as representative of the six individual
breaks they found along the 1.2km of our line back to the Mt. Kuring-Gai exchange earlier this year.
As the technician made clear, the copper network was well beyond its use-by date
and he for one was looking forward to working on the new all-fiber network.
As part of after-dinner conversation, should anyone I encounter question the
necessity for the deprecation of the copper network, I use the copper fragments
as illustration whilst attempting to broaden their vision of the future.