NWR: A warning about a p**s poor Internet provider

[TORB]

is that a gimmic?

yes and no. Its for real but has been done in an attempt to lessen the lightlyhood of leagla action bad press etc.

[Geoff]

I've got to say that in my IT career, capacity planning means doing it before you run out ... Not quite sure what an "accelerated capacity planning program" gives, but it sure sounds impressive.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7618869%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

[TORB]

Geoff,

And here is a lovely quote from the article "

Earlier that morning on Sydney 2UE radio station, however, Mr Milne had tried to pitch the problem as industry-wide.

"I'm not entirely sure that it hit us harder than other ISPs, " he said.

They are still trying to do a partial snow job and refuse to admit that it was their own inadequate system that caused the problem.

Also 2UE is a big supporter of Telstra because they are major sponsors of John Laws. Last week Laws said (almost exact quote) "if thats that the boss of Telstra has to say I have no reason to not believe him" and that was despite all the negative publicity and input from the public.

And my bloody email is still not working properly!

[ziggy]

Get over yourself TORB, it is a wine board after all

The fact is they started doing an upgrade two weeks ago and they stuffed the system.

With comments like that you are opening yourself up to legal action.

Eat, drink and be merry. Many more more important things in life, like what to drink tonight!

[TORB]

With comments like that you are opening yourself up to legal action.

Ziggy,

I am not hiding, Telstra are welcome to sue me. If you had any bloody idea how bad the service has been for some broadband one way satellite users has been for a protected period of time you may have some idea why I am peed off. The one way software was "unstable" for ages, I have had to reinstall software on numerous occasions and have wasted countless hours on the phone to the help desk. The current Navigator satellite software version is not "well behaved" and doesn't work properly with the Fire Wall software and Norton's. Add to that massive email problems that started on 29 September and are not yet resolved and you may begin to understand my frustration.

The title of the post is NWR (not wine related) - if anyone does'nt want to read it then they are welcome to ignore it. However as Telstra is the largest ISP in Oz it is have an effect on many people, obviously you are not one of them.

As to the simple solution of changing to another supplier, its not an easy option living in 8km from the exchange with a limited number of ISP's in your area.

So Dr Ziggy on behalf of Telstra please sue me by all means, but to prove deformation the ball is in your court to show that what I am saying is not true, something that Tetra may find very hard to do.