Scott Yang's Playground

Got an SMS this morning from Three, my current mobile phone provider. As a prepaid 3Skypephone user for the last 12 months, I often get SMS-spammed by them so I was a bit hesitated to open it up. It turns out to contain a great news! Mobile Internet is now available to you! Surf your [...]

Optus caused Exetel slowness — Exetel was in the process of migrating customers from Telstra to Optus, to a point where Optus’ ATM network can no longer handle the load. That pretty much explained the slowness of my connection over the past few weeks, to a point where one after I am having 1,300ms ping [...]

It has been three and half years since I got broadband connection at home. Not much has been changed since. Well, the price is — I am now paying about half the price for 16 times the download quota (although I rarely go over 3Gb each month), but the thing that actually made broadband broad, [...]

Should the Australian government sell all its 51.05 percent of Telstra? One “promise” by the coalition party is the privatisation Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunication company that is currently having a monopoly on the copper network infrastructure. Yesterday, Tim Costello of Liberal said that it would be delayed until at least 2006, and today John Anderson [...]

Yesterday’s national ADSL outage has cut many Australians off the net. Apparent Telstra made a big boo boo by screwing things up during an upgrade. My home server survived, and it stayed on-line through out the whole time. However, ADSL at work got cut off at 1am in the morning, and we could not connect [...]

According to this thread on the Whirlpool Forums, you can get 45Mbps down stream and 3Mbps up stream ADSL with no traffic quota and cheap VoIP phone for around ¥4,138 per month, which is just a bit more than AUD$50 today. At the same time, I am paying AUD$55 per month for Swiftel‘s 512kbps/128kbps plan [...]

Just some personal notes on my recent approach to find an ISP that provides ADSL broadband in Australia. I am moving house in the next month or two, and I plan to change the ISP that provides my home Internet access, as well as the bandwidth for hosting this site. It is always good to [...]

The overdue by one week updated Internode ADSL plan has just been released this morning at around 9:00am AEST. The Internode MD Simon Hackett announced the upcoming plan a few month ago on Australia’s broadband community Whirlpool, and initially the change-over was planned to be during Oct/Nov this year. October passed and so did Novemeber, [...]