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So I wanted fast interwebs…

And that's how it started. Alot of you have heard this story already and are probably sickk of hearing it by now but for those of you who haven't heard it yet here goes.

My current internet in my apartment is connected by a data point to my room by a small ISP that solely provides broadband to apartment buildings. So you'd think that it could have great potential to be fast. Say with an ethernet backbone to the interwebs and big download quotas and awesomeness... But no, that would only happen in imaginationland...

Instead the service that this half arsed ISP provides is 384 kbps down 64 up... A speed that is atrocious when compared with the current services availible in metro areas with an average of 18 mbps down!! The hell... Also the quota on this plan is 2gb... For every 5 days... Who the hell does that, everyone else does it by the month. Seriously... WTF... But my confusion continued when I realised how much it was costing me...

A fifty dollar connection fee... OH NO someone had to create a new account on the central server, like... 5 seconds work... And boom... You get charged 50 bucks... But that aside, how much do you think i'm paying for this broadband service. 10 bucks, 20 bucks, no sir. I'm being ripped off for a large 49.95 per month for this half rate dodgy arse service! I can't browse and chat on my VOIP at the same time... It screws with it too much. What a fucking rip.

So after 2 months of this I'm ready to stab someone, and decide, for my own safety and those around me I should get the hell away from this service and get a proper DSL service. This is where TPG comes in. I wanted a naked DSL 2+ service with 50gb quota for 59.95. 10 bucks more than my current deal and I get greatly improved quota and speed. Yer... I held myself back just a little there... So I contact TPG, I have to get my phone connected to Telstra first, thanks to the brilliance that is the sale of Telstra.

So I get onto Telstra. Who, are increadibly fast. There is a tech at my door 4 business days later, really nice!

He hooks up my phone line pretty easily and heads off. He's barely out the door and I've logged the request to have the line disconnected so that the naked DSL can be connected. It is now the 4th of April. I sit around constantly refreshing the installation status page on TPG's website to find out when my service will be activated. 2 days later on the 6th TPG reports it has logged the request with Telstra.

Skip forward in time to Friday the 17th. 8 business days later (the public hols where in there somewhere) and I'm still refreshing that damn page. So I figure I'll call TPG. They're very sorry but Telstra has gotten back to them with the 7th of May being the expected connection date. The 7TH OF MAY. And then it hits me. Remember all that industrial action going on over in Telstraville, remember how the strikes are not affecting Telstra customers. According to Telstra. I think I just figured out what is taking up the slack. Telstra wholesale customers, and indirectly end users are being screwed over by the wonder that is telstra!

So in short. This is just another FUCK YOU TELSTRA post. And to those who defend Telstra by saying there are queues and they'll be getting stuff done as quickly as they can, yer sure. I like the part where they can come to my house and connect my line in 4 days. Yet it takes them almost a month to just walk the fuck downstairs into the basement and change afew patch cables. Seriously guys. Hawthorn exchange might be a high building... But it aint that damn high!

Anyway stay tuned... Maybe I'll have good interwebs some time in the next mellinium!