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| Thread ID: 113334 | 2010-10-15 03:42:00 | The joy of dial up. | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 1145005 | 2010-10-15 11:14:00 | So, goodiesguy, if my memory serves me, you live in Mosgiel? A rural town serving farmers originally...no farm income, no money for your parents, I think. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1145006 | 2010-10-15 11:57:00 | I don't see much farms where i live. just houses and houses, though my backyard is pretty big | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1145007 | 2010-10-15 12:01:00 | Watch out then, they'll be grazing cows on it, as soon as you turn your back :D | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1145008 | 2010-10-15 13:17:00 | well if you count my neighbours as cows. behind us is house, left of us is house, right to us is house |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1145009 | 2010-10-15 15:42:00 | Yeah but I think you miss my point, without the farmers coming in to buy stuff in Mosgiel for all those years, and without the wool that sustained the mill there, then there would be no Mosgiel for you to live in. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1145010 | 2010-10-15 18:08:00 | Yes, pity help the still significant numbers of rural people, who have no access to anything else.... Oh yes. I can tell you all about that. And the numbers, not just with dialup - but really shitty dialup too. 31k dialup |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1145011 | 2010-10-15 18:22:00 | and without those 30 million sheep and the people managing those 30 million sheep NZ wouldn't be much of a country | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1145012 | 2010-10-15 23:14:00 | Haha the screeching modem does bring back memories, I would probably stop using the internet if I had to go back to dial-up. | TickTech (15391) | ||
| 1145013 | 2010-10-15 23:45:00 | Not so either, its not just the rural areas that cant get High speed when they want it. I have a customer who lives in Riverstone Terraces (maps.google.com) - top /middle of that map - new subdivision a few years back, and still expanding - Look where it is in relation to Upper Hutt, which has both Telstra and Telecom services. They cant get ANYTHING from telecom, or Telstra over the last few years. From the Customer: Telecom -- theres a waiting list to get even the phone on ,let alone internet, -WHY - because theres no numbers left at the exchange, so the only way to get anything telecom is to wait till someone moves out of the area, then their line becomes available. Telstra - To small an area currently, the Telstra coverage stops at the river, and Riverstone is on the other side. The ONLY option they have is Vodafone Wireless for phone and Internet, which is slow as a wet week, not much faster than dialup. Interesting Wainui but it ain’t just NZ. A friend of mine purchased a $1m+ house in a brand new sub-division just out of Brisbane. Unbelievably, there had been no provision for broadband in the area of any speed. :eek: Constant moaning to Telstra produced nothing and some of these senior executives had to pay $3000+ a month for satellite coverage. Then an MP moved into the sub-division and started doing hand stands when he found he had no Broadband either. I think his portfolio had something to do with Telecommunications and lo and behold Telstra now has them all on Satellite at normal Broadband Charges and is going right about fixing the local exchange. I guess on the odd occasion MP’s can be useful. ;) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1145014 | 2010-10-15 23:54:00 | Interesting Wainui but it ain’t just NZ. A friend of mine purchased a $1m+ house in a brand new sub-division just out of Brisbane. (snip) Brisbane has grown so fast it has outgrown its infrastructure in lots of ways, not just telecoms - one of the penalties involved in moving to a place that has had thousands of sun loving lizards moving in from interstate and across the ditch. The rest of your message puzzles me though. A mate and a friend of his both live on their yachts in Brisbane, and their internet access for 'normal use', work, and navigation is wireless. My mate is with Optusnet; he would not be paying anywhere near the prices that Telstra were charging or there would have been murder done... Access must be at a decent speed, because of the kind of use they make of their respective connections. |
John H (8) | ||
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