That should have been 'Woomera' - a Maestro modem intended and designed to cope with 'bad' outback Aussie lines - I may be in the city - but sometimes it is interesting to watch the line speed jump up and down all over the place on this thing... and largely independent of the weather - all the lines here are underground.

Interestingly, I'm back on telstra - copper pair - when I was on Optus, their phone was a 'cable' - so digitally run - I never got much above 40000 with them - one reason I changed back when offered a 'sweet deal' - other was that their cable modem was always playing up and they refused all attempts to accept anything wrong - until it died completely.

I also know all the tricks about 'other phones on the line' etc too...


The price of ASDL is just becoming reasonable for me now.

Allegedly over 80% of households 'have access to broadband' says the Govt - but they won't say just what percentage actually HAVE it...