Last month, when I returned to home base, our NBN phone was down, which meant that the Internet was down
I still had the prepaid USB dongle, on my laptop, which was working The wife has a new (first) tablet, which was also working
After getting in touch with our provider IINET, we were put on a list The next day we received a phone call to say that there was nothing wrong at their end, and that they had contacted Telstra
Four days later Telstra came into our home They said that they had found some damage to a line, up the street
After checking our line, Telstra said that it should now work, four hours later the connection was OK
My theory is, (and it is only a theory, so it could be wrong)
We had the router switched off, while we were away, and obviously the home phone had not been used Due to overloads, (working from home/lockdowns), there was not enough bandwidth to go around On startup, there was not enough bandwidth for our phone/router to get back on line
I did hear on TV, a person going crook about the Gov't only going optical to the nodes (I think that's right), saying now we will experience problems with overload.
I used to turn off the computer & modem, phone was on a separate line. Years ago I had a dead line one day. It turned out somewhere along the street they had given that section of copper wire to someone else as they didn't realise I had 2 lines. Got it back after a week as they were short of lines in the street!
Went from 3 lines, to 2, to 1, my choice. On mobile only now. Fed up with all the problems & far slower speed.
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Normally, my internet speeds are very good. I pay for unlimited downloads and the higher speed, but lately - after the 'Schools Shutdown', my internet speeds have gone way down. I can only assume that the slowdown is a result of all the school children working from home and therefore using up more bandwidth. It will be interesting to see if things change back to what they were now with school holidays in force.
No change to my piss poor 50mBps service that replaced my 115mBps broadband delivered on the old TV co-axial cable. Less speed at the same price on NBN.
At least we never have outages. The only outage since we changed from dial up was when we got a lightning strike that blew the Modem.
Lots of cashed up Asian Students in our street (usually) & I think that they use mobile data, so the NBN cable traffic is probably reduced. Almost no school age kids around here, just Asian students & old farts.
