Chorus refuse to connect phone line

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Coil

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#1061626 9-Jun-2014 08:51

Wow lucky you. To get anything at glinks is the next best thing to impossible. Most I ever got there was stuck cars and kahawai. (I never got stuck)

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#1062260 9-Jun-2014 23:06

gareth41: Another beach house at Glinks was recently sold earlier this year and they had broadband, so im assuming this is why we got lucky and now have their line.

Now we just have to wait for the new owners of that house to come on here and complain that they can't get a line.

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#1067373 17-Jun-2014 12:10

While not related to this exact issue, it is about what motivates Telecom to get a sevice in(or expanded).

There was a similar beach community out from our town 1000 or so residents.

So the local ISP started errecting a tower for their wireless 3mbs/3mbs service. The service was then publicised including a story in the local rag.

How long did it take Telecom to get infrastructure in from then? If you guessed 7 days, well done, you get 1 free interents.

Thats right 7 days.

I even loved the way they counter publicized how it "was just sticking with their origianal roadmap, as the system was due for upgrade".

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#1067388 17-Jun-2014 12:27

brettw72: While not related to this exact issue, it is about what motivates Telecom to get a sevice in(or expanded).

There was a similar beach community out from our town 1000 or so residents.

So the local ISP started errecting a tower for their wireless 3mbs/3mbs service. The service was then publicised including a story in the local rag.

How long did it take Telecom to get infrastructure in from then? If you guessed 7 days, well done, you get 1 free interents.

Thats right 7 days.

I even loved the way they counter publicized how it "was just sticking with their origianal roadmap, as the system was due for upgrade".

But presumably the Telecom infrastructure is cellphone coverage, which is not provided by some local WISP anyway...

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#1067767 17-Jun-2014 17:56

Inphinity:
brettw72: While not related to this exact issue, it is about what motivates Telecom to get a sevice in(or expanded).

There was a similar beach community out from our town 1000 or so residents.

So the local ISP started errecting a tower for their wireless 3mbs/3mbs service. The service was then publicised including a story in the local rag.

How long did it take Telecom to get infrastructure in from then? If you guessed 7 days, well done, you get 1 free interents.

Thats right 7 days.

I even loved the way they counter publicized how it "was just sticking with their origianal roadmap, as the system was due for upgrade".

But presumably the Telecom infrastructure is cellphone coverage, which is not provided by some local WISP anyway...

i think by "telecom" they mean chorus.

*Insert big spe*dtest result here*

gareth41

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#1187434 2-Dec-2014 20:51

A further update to this, arrived at glinks and found speed at about 6mbits so looks like the cabinet was upgraded at some point in past few months.

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#1195576 11-Dec-2014 14:08

Zeon: Just use VoIP for phone.

That isn't going to work too well with poor quality DSL. VoIP over Wifi is pretty variable too. Talking from experience of both.

brettw72:
There was a similar beach community out from our town 1000 or so residents.

So the local ISP started errecting a tower for their wireless 3mbs/3mbs service. The service was then publicised including a story in the local rag.

How long did it take Telecom to get infrastructure in from then? If you guessed 7 days, well done, you get 1 free interents.

Thats right 7 days.

I even loved the way they counter publicized how it "was just sticking with their origianal roadmap, as the system was due for upgrade".

This is the stuff of legends. I don't recall specifics, but I have certainly heard of Telecom doing this sort of thing back in the pre-2007 era. Was this before or after separation?

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