Why I don't hang around this forum much any more... :-(

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Armistice

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I mainly listen to all your meisterworks in slow periods while I'm at work, usually when I'm stuck on somethng and need distraction :eek:... and hopefully offer occasional value by commenting.... however work technology is slowly defeating me.

I'm stuck on an old corporate browser (IE8) that now won't even let me get to Soundcloud, and there's been a huge limitation placed on access to "personal storage" sites, for security reasons - dropbox and the like...

So pretty much every time I try to listen to someone's work now, I can't actually get to it. And there's nothin' I can do about it.

So, although MP3 attachments aren't the best way to go in this forum, they seem to be about the only way I can listen. I'm usually too busy at home and due to the archaic nature of broadband infrastructure in Australia in certain places (i.e the middle of the largest city in the country), I don't have much excess bandwith once the competing needs of midget pron and illegal torrent files are sated...

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Didn't want y'all to think I didn't love you any more.... :laughings:
 
I feel your pain.

There's nothing I like better than to listen to what people have created, and to chuck in my two-cents' worth.

But my alleged broadband is slow and erratic, and I just get frustrated.
 
gecko zzed said:
I feel your pain.

There's nothing I like better than to listen to what people have created, and to chuck in my two-cents' worth.

But my alleged broadband is slow and erratic, and I just get frustrated.
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At least you'll get the NBN some time in the next 5 years... god forbid they roll it out on an economic model basis like a private organisation trying to make a buck would have... ;)
 
That sucks you both have internet issues. Why is that? I am seriously curious.

I am just a curious asshole with high speed internet.. But I have to pay $80 a month for it.. :eek:
 
jimmys69 said:
That sucks you both have internet issues. Why is that? I am seriously curious.

I am just a curious asshole with high speed internet.. But I have to pay $80 a month for it.. :eek:
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Well my issue is that I live in an apartment and the installed phone line won't handle ADSL and there's nothing anyone's going to do about it because the previous government decided what we all needed was a National Broadband Network costing billions and being rolled out in reverse economic order - ie. to the far flung places first - and while this wonderful network is being constructed, no-one will countenance doing ANY maintenance on the existing copper wire network... so I use a 4G mobile hotspot and get two, sometimes three bars - a 10GB plan, which is actually heaps, it's just that I'm rarely in the mood for listening to stuff at night... sometimes, not often... The NBN should get here in about 10 years, I reckon and solve all my problems. Or I could move somewhere where the local exchange isn't so rooted!

Geck's problem will be because he's in Tasmania which isn't joined to mainland Australia and has the worst existing network because of this, and a small population... he's probably on a similar thing to me... 3G or 4G mobile through the only provider that has a semi-decent network there, Telstra, and they're stupidly expensive and he'll have a small limit, like 4GB or something. But he'll get the NBN in the next couple of years, probably. I won't.

I went on hols to Tasmania a couple of years back and couldn't make a call on my mobile / cell from anywhere apart from the two largest towns, because I wasn't on a Telstra plan, but Vodafone... useless.:)
 
That's rubbish. I'll count myself lucky for the 120Mb broadband I currently have. Before we moved we could only get 1.5Mb on ADSL, that disconnected every 10 minutes.. That was bad enough, especially for our lad who plays online games.

The Internet is shite in general though, so you're not missing much. Just some good songs around here.
 
I'm 1000km north of Armistice and my Australian broadband sucks cock as well. I pay for an "up to 20Mbps" ADSL service but rarely get more than 3Mbps and have measured it as slow as 166kbps, I also get frequent total dropouts where I have to reboot my modem.

Why? It's down to the phone company copper which hasn't been repaired or replaced in decades. We WERE supposed to be getting a shiny new fibre to the home service (my neighbourhood was scheduled for installation later this year) but all that's cancelled/on hold because our asshole of a Prime Minister thinks the internet is a toy that nobody needs and he'd rather put the money into subsidising his political donors who run coal mines and cut down Tasmanian forests.

Australia has friendly people, great weather, great wine and friendly deadly spiders. But our internet sucks.
 
I pay $40 a month for 20gb peak plus 10gb offpeak.

With ADSL I get download speed of around 1.3 Mbps, and upload of 0.2 Mbps.

Places on the outskirts of where I live can get Fixed Wireless NBN. I can't get that, because we are scheduled for optic fibre roll out. But there is no date for that. The whole NBN rollout has been dogged by incompetence from the very start.
 
You want good internet, move to Hong Kong. My mate there has 320Mbps and pays less than half what I do--he says that's typical.

Even when we were getting fibre it was only going to be 100Mbps.
 
That sucks Armistice, I didn't realise Aus was so far behind when it came to internet coverage. We've had fibre optic broadband round here for years - I've no idea what the spec is, but thankfully hangups and slow loading errors are now a thing of the past.

...is what I was trying to post before a bunch of bad gateway and 404 errors blocked my access to the site for about 10 minutes just now :laughings:
 
Okay. Just to frustrate my Aussie compatriots even more, I moved here 8 years ago. I just checked my old address in the UK and found that, yes, I could have a fibre internet package there now.

38 Mbps including a phone line would cost 32 pounds (about $55) per month.

76 Mbps including a phone line is 42 pounds (about $75) per month.

You can also get the internet without a phone line for 16 or 25 pounds per month respectively.

That's not a big city like Sydney either. It's a small market town out in the sticks.

I pay $109 for a crap, droppy-outie ADSL line and phone (but at least I get unlimited downloads for that).

Abbott and Turnbull don't think upgrading Australian internet services is important.

Pillocks.
 
Here in Kansas City, we've been Google's pilot program for their gigabit fiberoptic internet service. They've been busy installing for a couple of years now, although very few people have actually gone "live" with the service. Initial reports are positive, and the actual fiber lines were laid in my neighborhood a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully within a few months I'll be all connected at 1000 Mbps.

Google is really trying to squeeze out the incumbent monopoly in our area (Time Warner, and a little AT&T) with their fiber service. You can pay a one-time installation fee of $300 and get 7 years of standard internet for free, or pay something like $60/mo for just gigabit internet, or about $150/mo for fiber internet and cable tv. Pretty much what I'm paying with Time Warner, but with 100x faster internet. Not bad...

I had no idea that AUS was so internet-challenged. It sounds like a top-down clusterf**k!
 
My just very slightly regional area is poorly served. I tested my speeds last week and on the best day in months it was rated at 3.5meg/sec down and 0.3meg/sec up. Most days it's far less - IF it stays connected at all. Oh, and the NBN will bypass my village entirely so NO FUTURE - not even a 10 tear one.
 
My original point was that I don't hang around here much any more because of the constraints placed by my work environment, not my at home broadband problems. I make music and do other stuff at nights, usually, I don't listen in at the MP3 clinic much then and having all the home broadband capability in the world probably wouldn't change that... :D
 
Armistice said:
My original point was that I don't hang around here much any more because of the constraints placed by my work environment, not my at home broadband problems. I make music and do other stuff at nights, usually, I don't listen in at the MP3 clinic much then and having all the home broadband capability in the world probably wouldn't change that... :D
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Oh, hush! You've got us all talking about broadband now... :D

Speaking of which, what's the best internet for rap vocals under $100?
 
If you cover your broadband line with egg cartons, does it sound better?
 
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