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24MB Broadband.. drool

Posted on 01 Sep 2005 in Internet

UK Online to offer 24MB ADSL2+ for under GBP30 per month! Where do I sign?

http://www.ukonline.net/press/release.php?id=23

samknows.com: The Broadband Resource

Posted on 09 Mar 2005 in Daily, London

Fantastic detailed resource on broadband exchange statuses in the UK. Enter your telephone number to locate your exchange and get relevant technical details including available DSLAM ports etc. Enter your phone number and post code and get a distance in metres from the exchange and likely service speeds your line will support. The upgrade to 2mbps hasn't gone smoothly for me unfortunately, I'm gettings lots of connection drops out.

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/

BT Broadband Upgrades to 2Mbps

Posted on 01 Mar 2005 in Internet

At no extra charge. Good, because I was about to dump BT as their competitors were already offering 2Mbps for what I was paying for the 1Mbps service. The 8Mbps/500GB plan from UK Online is still looking very attractive though for GBP39.95 per month.

http://www.bt.com/broadband/news/

BT Broadband connection now 1Mbps

Posted on 11 Feb 2005 in Internet

Increased my BT net connection speed here in London to 1Mbps, it's noticeably better, but still less than what I was running in Sydney before I left (1.5Mbps). I'm still toying with the idea of going to the 4Mbps plan from BulldogDSL or 8Mbps plan from UK Online. BT are currently running a 2Mbps trial as well.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/broadband/0,39020342,39174214,00.htm

Bulldog Broadband

Posted on 18 Oct 2004 in Internet

4 Mbps unlimited ADSL, yummy. I think it's time to dump BT Broadband, particularly as they're introducing usage limits soon. Bulldog here I come.

UPDATE: Didn't end up going for Bulldog and now get hit up by rude aggressive commission based salesmen on the street trying desperately to flog Bulldog services, which really has turned me completely off them. Bulldog, your rude poorly informed and trained sales monkey's have lost me.

http://www.bulldogbroadband.com/general/landing.asp

BT Broadband 15GB Monthly Limit :(

Posted on 05 Jul 2004 in Internet

Ah well, it was a fantastic deal while it lasted. At 2 quid a gig it still completely beats Tel$tra BigPond's ludicrous excess charge of AUD$150 per gig back home:

http://www.bt.com/broadband/bb_info.jsp?targetSection=broadband&obsNoSee=Y&vStore=1322&obsPage=%2fbroadband%2fbb_info.jsp%3ftargetSection%3dbroadband_from_bt&obsType=LINK&obsOID=83032

ADSL coming next Tuesday.. I hope.

Posted on 29 Jul 2003 in Daily, London

BT promise to connect my ADSL next Tuesday, however I'm still really worried about the level of line noise on the 100 year old telephone cables that link to our flat. Hopefully they'll hold up to the demands of digital, we'll see. In the mean time I continue to make weblog posts on the offline copy of anthonyjhicks.com sitting on my laptop, that don't actually pop up on my website until I plug my laptop into the net. This is why you'll see a burst of posts going up from the past few days as the offline posts are replicated up to the live site. Also had a call back about a job for an interview, so there is potential in this grim market afterall. As one mate pointed out, lots of Aussies seem to whinge about the horrible job market of here, but most of them have good jobs anyway -- go figure.

Australia’s great broadband disaster

Posted on 13 Jun 2003 in Internet

Excellent analysis from Telecom Asia of broadband in Australia, it provides an excellent summary of what has gone wrong from the 80's till now, and how bad the Telstra monopoly is for Australia. Plenty of interesting statistics, particularly in uptake with only 2% of the country using broadband, we're 23rd in uptake behind Estonia -- where as Alston likes to quite NOIE figure of 'broadband readiness'. Highly recommended read. As usual, I believe Telstra should burn in hell, and are keeping Australia down -- this links well with my gripe about why so many people I know don't have broadband, and the comments I received on and offline pointed to pricing as being the critical factor. [via Slashdot]

http://telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=53441

Broadband market saturated in Australia?

Posted on 22 May 2003 in Internet

I read an interesting assessment last week on falling broadband uptake in Australia, unfortunately I've lost the link to the article, however I did want to share my thoughts on this. Putting aside pair-gain and optic fibre mini-mux victims, from my observations the lack of broadband take up is not just limited to non-tech savvy consumers, I still have a significant number of so called "high-tech" friends who do not have broadband at home. They choose to do their broadband usage at work because they are too cheap, are attempting to limit their home internet usage, or live at home and have technology phobic parents who are blocking the installation of broadband. At an entry price of just $49.95 for broadband account these days, it just amazes me that people still use analogue modems at all for home internet access.

Full-marks to Telstra for trying to raise awareness of broadband through simple effective advertising aimed at educating the non-tech savvy market on the benefits of broadband, however it looks like it's falling on deaf ears. As the article suggests, maybe the Australian broadband market is indeed reaching saturation point, with many consumers still either fearful of the technology or accustomed to internet access at work only. One solution may be for computer manufacturers like Dell to ship systems with ADSL modems rather than analogue modems in the near future. Death to 56k!

To all my high-tech friends who still use 56k modems at home, I'm disgusted with you! Why is it that no matter how hard I lobby on the benefits of new (umm.. newish) technologies such as broadband, wireless networks and microwave ovens, people are resistant and fearful? Why is it that my strata is scared to put a FOXTEL satellite dish on the roof of my apartment block? Slow technology adopters drive me nuts!

Plugging the gaps left by Tel$tra

Posted on 30 Apr 2003 in Internet

One of my favourite topics is the lack of broadband coverage at Jackson's Landing, well two companies are keen to get into the area and are considering setting up base stations to fill the gap left by Telstra and Bovis Lend Lease. Good to see! I registered my interest on both sites the other day and they both got back to me straight away, including both a personal call and email from Unwired to discuss my location. Full marks to Unwired and BigAir. Jackson's Landing might just turn into a massive success story in large scale urban wireless networking. Here's an entire waterfront suburb with hundreds of brand-new half-million to multi-million dollar apartments and terraces where the well-off professioanl residents have given up waiting for Telstra to get broadband connected, they've formed an action group to organise their own broadband coverage for the suburb, and wireless is the winner. Interestingly enough, Bovis are pitching some money in as well to help with initial proof of concepts. I'll be watching this one with interest as it's a great story of people and small organisations working around Telstra to get access to services most other people in Sydney take for granted now. (heh, I'm not bitter!)

http://www.jacksonslanding.com.au/frameJacksons.html

Australia falling behind in broadband: experts

Posted on 10 Mar 2003 in Internet

This article over at ZDNet Australia on Australia's pitiful broadband implementation attempts has got me all worked up again about the greatest luddite of all time, Senator Richard Alston and of course Telstra. I've wasted a lot of energy over the years blogging at my continued and extreme disgust at the government handling of broadband and the Internet, and the astronomical charges Telstra squeezes out of the market for a sub-standard service that is still not widely available despite the fictious posturing by Alston that Australia is a world leader. Don't even get me started on Telsta's continued write-offs due to poor Asian investments and yet the incompetent senior management stay in power. Telstra and Alston continue to keep Australia down, and it seems nothing can be done to stop it. When will someone with a clue take over the Communications, Information Technology and the Arts portfolio from that useless bastard Alston? When will the Australian government give up trying to censor the Internet? How long before we are faced with a Saudi Arabia, China or Singapore like filtering proxy regulating everything we see? If Alston had his way, this is what we'd have in Australia. I rarely get angry about politics, but everytime I see Altson or Telstra mentioned in the media, I think of all that could be in Australia with regards to communiations infrastructure compared to what we have and get very angry indeed. (okay poorly structured rant over)

UPDATE: For those who claim that everyone can get broadband now, remember all those people who live more than 3.5KM from an exchange, do not have a cable running past their home, or live at the end of a RIM etc. For example, large chunks of Pyrmont a Sydney suburb 1.5KM out of the city centre STILL can't get access to broadband. Disgusting.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20272721,00.htm

CWO Takes Control of Excite@Home Australia

Posted on 18 Sep 2001 in Internet

" 'Optus today announced it has taken 100 per cent control of its joint venture with US-based Excite@Home. Optus has purchased all shares in
Excite@Home Australia and now controls the company outright.' " [via CM]

http://www.asx.com.au/asx/statistics/AnnDetail.jsp?id=426112&issuerid=3959

Jinx net

Posted on 12 Dec 2000 in Internet

Interesting, Victoria-based Jinx net intends to offer free broadband Internet access over Cable & Wireless Optus' HFC network. Amusing.

http://australia.internet.com/r/article/jsp/sid/756020

Internet Traffic Report

Posted on 21 Nov 2000 in Internet

Australia: Current Index 12 Avg. Response Time 2920ms.

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

SMH: Gridlock on the Internet as intercontinental cable lies damaged on sea floor

Posted on 21 Nov 2000 in Internet

Finally 12 hours after hearing about this unofficially we get confirmation. The 39,000-kilometre SEA-ME-WE 3 cable running from western Europe (including Germany, Britain and France) to the Far East (including China, Japan and Singapore), to Australia has been severed. The cause of the problem is not yet known, however possibilities include a ships anchor or an Earthquake.

"The gridlock, he said, was probably the biggest Internet problem Australia had seen."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0011/21/update/news1.html

ADSLUsers.com.au

Posted on 21 Nov 2000 in Internet

Definitely a useful source of Australian ADSL related rumours and gossip.

http://www.adslusers.com.au/

IT Fairfax: Optus@Home dumps customers ahead of expected sell-off

Posted on 20 Nov 2000 in Internet

AUP etc.

http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/industry/20001121/A63402-2000Nov20.html

My 512Kbps ADSL at full-tilt

Posted on 14 Oct 2000 in Internet

Netgear RT311

Posted on 08 Aug 2000 in Internet

Getting ready for my ADSL installation, I'll probably pickup one of these DSL routers from Netgear to share the one connection and IP address between all machines on my home network.

http://www.netgear.com/products/rt311ds.shtml

Telstra releases ADSL pricing!

Posted on 08 Aug 2000 in Internet

The Freedom Deluxe plan at $89 per month for 512k downstream, 128k upstream and **unlimited transfers seems the best value.

http://www.telstra.com.au/adsl/price.htm

ADSL arrives at $143 a month

Posted on 13 Jul 2000 in Internet

Ahead of Telstra's official price release date of 7th August, iTnews have revealed Telstra ADSL will come in a range of product offerings for corporate, SME and residential customers. The top access plan is likely to be around $143 for unlimited 1.5Mbps access, although with recent discussions of Acceptable Use Policies by Optus@Home users I'd suspect the unlimited access isn't completely unlimited but more likely limited to say 500MB-1G per day. The article also says that Telstra has found through the residential cable access market that residential users are not likely to pay more than $70 per month for access. So, to stay inline with current BPA cable prices, they'll probably cap the cheaper residential access at around 500Kbps.

http://www.itnews.com.au/story.cfm?ID=3272

Optus broadband access this month

Posted on 02 Dec 1999 in Internet

Further to my earlier post, CM pointed out that: "Cable and Wireless Optus is set to clean up in the broadband market when it goes to market with flat access fees and a low connection price for its Optus@Home service this month."

http://www.itnews.com.au/story.cfm?ID=644

More Australian Internet regulation and pricing discussion at Slashdot

Posted on 02 Dec 1999 in Internet

I'm amazed the Internet has got up at all in this country with our pathetic Liberal government trying to censor it and duopolised over priced top-level carriers controlling it. Our only hope is C&W Optus, hopefully they'll implement a flat-rate pricing policy for their yet to be launched broadband service and blow Telstra Cable out of the water.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/01/0841210&mode=thread

More Free Net Access for Australia

Posted on 17 Sep 1999 in Internet

Free Net is now the third free Internet service provider to setup in Australia. They plan to offer free access to an estimated 200,000 customers in the next 18 months. The service will be available in Sydney and Melbourne from November 1.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/9909/17/bizcom/bizcom2.html

Optus cable modems finally on the way

Posted on 10 Jun 1999 in Internet

An announcement will be made tomorrow that Optus will partner with Excite@Home to offer broadband Internet access. The service will be available initially in limited areas in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane towards the end of the year. (thanks for the heads-up CM :)