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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 [...]

John Linton of Exetel: Why Are Victorian’s So Different? “… Victorian users average twice the bandwidth usage of all other State and Teritory users.”, and that was his experience over 12 years setting up and operating ISPs in Australia. Sounds like the Garden State should also be nick-named “leecher state”.

Yesterday’s story continued. First of all, the switch over seems to be pretty quick. Incoming call issues were expected to be resolved in 24 hours, but Vivian had started to receive calls at home merely 5 hours after the line dropped. It could be less, as we don’t receive calls every 10 minutes. Arrived back [...]

At around 10:30am, my SSH connection back home suddenly got dropped. “Aargh! ADSL glitches!” I mumbled. Host is not pingable, but it came back up after 5 minutes of outage — only to go off-line 2 minutes afterwards! Now if you call my home phone number, you’ll get a voice saying this line is currently [...]

Exetel, the broadband service provider that I have been using, started reselling Optus’ ADSL2+ product yesterday, and have their sign up form activated at around 10′ish in the morning. I went there and have a look, to my surprise, Kensington exchange is now Active according to their NSW exchange list! A few days when I [...]

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, [...]

I am talking about hosting and my Bargain Blog. I moved the site to DreamHost more than 2 months ago, but have decided to move it back to my poor old home server yesterday morning. Problems? There are two. (1) Google (2) DreamHost.