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| Thread ID: 124837 | 2012-05-22 10:31:00 | Telstraclear......sucks bad | Metla (12) | PC World Chat |
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| 1276814 | 2012-05-23 02:28:00 | At the time with the mad rush to move to them happening, I did warn against it. I anticipated it. Lmfao. Still, this is worse then I anticipated. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1276815 | 2012-05-23 03:58:00 | Always is .. Same with Slingshot and their massive oversubscription. At least Orcons are semi-decently priced that makes you hope they're going to keep buying additional international bandwidth to cope with the increased demand. Either that or they're just pillaging us for more than the others :p | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1276816 | 2012-05-23 03:59:00 | I have been lucky. I applied to join Telstra but after 2 weeks of nothing happening, and a dud Genius Modem, I changed to Hosting Direct for Naked ADSL. Good price, speed, reliability and Help. Use 2talk for the VoiP phone, also very good. | mzee (3324) | ||
| 1276817 | 2012-05-23 04:53:00 | I've had no issues on TC since I joined up. Getting roughly the same speeds as I was on Xnet, anywhere between 4-6Mbps depending on time of day. We are too far from the exchange for ADSL2 and don't even think it has been upgraded yet anyway. $75 is about $30 a month less than I was paying for phone and broadband so will stick it out for the 12 months and then look around. :) |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1276818 | 2012-05-23 06:04:00 | That's terrible service, I'd be spewing too. Out of curiosity what's your DSL connection speed? I connect to the cabinet at approx 16mb/s here and never really notice any slowdowns at any time of the day. I know xtra isn't the most popular of ISPs but I'm happy with the performance I get (that and I get a discount through my company). I don't actually get 16mb/s in practice but it comes close on some downloads. from time to time I consider switching and then all these horror stories scare me in to staying where I am with service that I'm happy with. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1276819 | 2012-05-23 06:49:00 | Email was dead yesterday for a while. And sites were playing up. I get 1.6-7 here too. At least its better than what I had with Xnet. Which wasnt even ADSL2. When I was on it A 2yr contract :eek: Just my own casual observations: At night surfing is not bad. I have not download any stuff yet at night, with a speedtest, daytime I get maybe 12Mbit, night time - 2Mbit. Occasionally some webpages may not load or that you need to press the refresh button. In the daytime with download accelerator I have gotten 1600KB/sec. My router's speed via the IP address - 16Mbit. When I was with Orcon's 30GB $80 deal, I could not remember the casual issue, ie., now and then webpages did not load and a refresh page immediately fixed it or that a webpage might take a good 15sec to start going. Orcon's speed at night time for me was about 8Mbit. Probably approaching 12-14 at daytime. In the financial terminlolgy Telstraclear might think we are at the moment a unprofitiable customer but they are betting on that in the future we would be more profitable and that to minimise their lost the are trying to cut costs (and expenditure). They also lock you into a contract :D And I guess after the contract, they bump the price up to over a hundred for the month, I heard someone saying that. And if you don't like it, it's used as a discouragement to push you away and replace you with other customers. That's why banks have a min balance requirement for any interest paid to you and why they impose fees or even a penalty fee if your account balance is too low ;) |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1276820 | 2012-05-23 07:07:00 | We've been with Telstra cable for a Very Long Time. It saved $30/mo when we changed from Telecom. I particlarly liked their gratuitous increase to 10 GB. The only thing I don't like is when they fix a fault like yesterday's LDAP server failure (or whatever it was) but don't update their website | BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1276821 | 2012-05-23 07:13:00 | And I heard that ... in banks and probably big teleco's that if you ring or email the call centre different colors may flash on the computer screen signalling is this a customer we should spend time with and fix their issues or flog them off .... so they can target which customers will get more treatment than others basing on their profitability. :p | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1276822 | 2012-05-23 09:23:00 | Reminds me of Telecoms 'Go Large' fiasco when broadband speed was at less than dialup speed, and all the porkies they tried to tell about it being the customers bad lines, and getting everyone who complained to do countless useless speed tests. It took them quite a while to admit the fault was at their end, but that was the climate of denial under the Gattung regime.............. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1276823 | 2012-05-23 10:10:00 | The regime may have changed, but the climate change has passed them by. ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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