Woo Hoo After all these years !
Submitted: Saturday, Jan 12, 2008 at 19:07
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Member - Pesty (SA)
Absolutely amazing isnt it, if you wait long enough for governments, red tape and not to mention bullshoit, the wheels of time just crawl around.
Have been on the net for many years, around 7 or 8 at a guess, on this site for about 4, all of it on dialup internet.
Have been on ISDN for a couple of years, which was a little better.
Hundreds of times its been so painful to sit and wait or go have a drink or something while we wait for things to open/download.
Many links and things we didnt even bother to open, and chose to miss them altogether.
A few weeks ago the government and telstra must have come to a deal to open the adsl that has been in our exchange for a reported couple of years.
With promises that it will be on shortly, many times, we have soldiered on waiting.
Just another advantage of being in a small rural town, again!
Well as of yesterday we are now connected with adsl, so have gone from 64k to 128k to 1500k.
So now when I open a post it happens in a few seconds not up to 60. We can watch video clips when they come along and surf the net for things of interest. Still along way from adsl2, or even wireless, considering we have a
telstra tower next to our town.
But we are thankful for small acheivements.
I am now around $30 better off each month with twice the download , at about 15 to 20 times faster.
Woo Hoo after all these years ! LOL
Cheers Pesty
Reply By: Motherhen - Saturday, Jan 12, 2008 at 19:52
Saturday, Jan 12, 2008 at 19:52
Hi Pesty
I was elated when ADSL worked for me several years ago, even though we are outside of the recommended distance from town. It saved me the cost of the second phone line and all the dial ups; a bonus to have much faster Internet. Some people right in town still can't get ADSL because the old phone lines won't handle it (or couldn't a couple of years ago when i was working for an ISP agency - i doubt anything has changed).
The trouble is, we get used to it, and now get annoyed when the net is a bit slow - although still a lot faster than we had with dial up.
With the push by the Government to get everyone onto faster Internet, there are many ways of getting it. If enough people get together in a town (like around 30), some form of fast Internet can be set up. For those
well away from towns, satellite ADSL is costly, but there are Government subsidies for the set up.
Does faster Internet mean less time spent at the computer?
Motherhen
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