Yep, they'll help you alright, and help you lighten your load in your hip pocket at the same time. 


Once again you really need to lobby all your neighbours and work together to get ADSL in to your streets.

Actually you are very much restricted to tel$tra with ADSL2+ out this way. They have advised all parties concerned that they will not be providing ADSL2+ to anyone but bigpong clients. Very biased and unfair to everyone else... so now you'll be stuck with a piddly little download limit, where they will bill you when you go over, and with ADSL2+ speeds that'll mount up rather rapidly (remember some of the horror stories on TodayTonight with people with bogpond bills over $1000 in a month!).



Exactly the actions people need to take to get ADSL.  Sadly though most people sit back and just whinge about it, rather than getting organised to make something happen.

The Big T can help you, but it it will cost you.

Hey, you’re actually not restricted to any of them.....The way it kind of works is Telstra provide 80% and the rest share. So for instance you may be able to get Aanet or IInet  as a provider once you have ADSL in the area. I found these guys to be a great ISPs over the years
I actually work for ‘T” as a main contractor and they are currently revamping the area.... yours I’m not sure. I l know we have projects to cut over Cedar Grove/Vale replacing the DLC ( PGS) with ISAM to enable ADSL2 in that area, so I would imagine the you wont be too far away.
The best option is to call or try most providers.. that way they can race to take up the remainder of the 20% left under the Gov regs.... hang in there.

Also I agree... Rally all the Glenloganites  and try to get them to register interest on the big T www pages ( I actually did this 3 years ago in my space & it worked) Do a letter drop to them all and give them all the info they will need to navigate or call to express interest. Sign up and them change to a new ISP once your contract has expired. Once you have it you can churn to anyone else that offers a better deal

Before they were called Cirrus Communications, they started out as Comms Logic, and have had several name changes in between, so I have been told.

I recently got a new customer over to us from Cirrus, who was basically led to believe he couldn't get ADSL where he was, but we were able to get him hooked up to ADSL. His main reason for trying us was because he rarely got any internet connection through his Cirrus wireless connection, and when he did it was very slow and totally unsatisfactory for him. He contacted them on several occasions, and had tech's come out to his house to try to rectify things, but without much luck. His house is in a fairly elevated location, with the aerial pointed to the Buccan base station, so Line Of Sight (LOS) should not have been an issue, however his aerial was pointing slightly skyward, which it always had been, and which the tech's ignored.


Anyway, back to your situation, I would be getting your neighbours together to work as a group to lobby both your developer and all levels of government to rectify this absymal situation with the PGS.

There are other wireless providers like iBurst, but most wireless is now coming via mobile phone networks. We have actually looked at providing wireless access ourselves, but so far we haven't found a viable option for our customers, where we can provide good access at a reasonable price. It's so far been reasonable price and cruddy service, or great service at an extraordinary price, but we're still looking.

Thanks for your reply.

I agree its beyond belief that QM Properties allowed Telsta to cable the area as pair gains.  Perhaps they didn't understand what was happening.  QM supplied me with a copy of the plan submitted by Telstra and its pretty much bare bones information.

I have seen the ad for Cirrus Communications and have read the forum for Cirrus as well as their site.  Does anyone know whether they are any good in this area?  They told me we can access their service from our position and they also provide a static IP if required.  It all sounds OK but the forum seems to do a lot of criticising, but there isn't much recent comment.  It seems like a lot of money to commit to if they are still as bad as was indicated in July to October.

Does anyone know what choices for wireless broadband we have in Jimboomba?  Are we restricted to Telstra or Cirrus?  How do we find out which other Service Providers may be available?

Hi everyone,

Like previous years, I am organising Cleanup Australia day in Jimboomba and Stockleigh areas on Sunday 02 March 2008.

I would like to extend my invitation to all who consider Jimboomba as their home, to join us in cleaning up the area. To participate, you can just turn up on the day with a pair of glove, sturdy shoes and hat.

Following are the site details:

Site 1 :Johanna St and Cusack Lane, Jimboomba
      http://events.cleanup.org.au/?Jimboomba
Meeting Point: Rotary Park, Cnr of Johanna Street and Cusack Lane,
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Site supervisor: Ehsan (0413-667610)

Site 2 : Stockleigh Road and Neville Road, Stockleigh
       http://events.cleanup.org.au/?Stockleigh
Meeting Point: Cnr of Mt. Lindsey Hwy and Stockleigh Road
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Site Supervisor: Fahim (0433-192290)

See you there, if you have any question or query, please don't hasitate to contact me at 0433 192290.

Cheers,
Fahim

Okay, my business does adsl with static IP for most areas, however I am very surprised such a new development like Glenlogan Lakes estate allowed tel$tra to get away on the cheap by putting in PairGain Systems (PGS), and personal I think that's a pretty poor effort on the developers to let them get away with doing that.

The rewiring is what they call a transposition, which is taking you off the PGS and putting you on to clean copper (new cable that isn't shared like PGS is). This cabling goes all the way back to the exchange, so clearly it is something only tel$tra can do.

Yes, I see they're trying to push people on to their NextG mobile network, which is a whole lot more expensive than adsl.

The suggestion that was made of getting a group of neighbours together to lobby your local member is a good idea.

There was/is a Beaudesert Camera Club, which was tied in with a camera shop in Beaudesert near the Mitre 10 hardware.

You might like to call in one day and ask about it.

A little warning about satellite broadband is that if you don't get a full duplex link, i.e. in and out via satellite, you'll still be stuck with a dialup outbound link. Last time I looked full duplex satellite was just under $300 per month.

Also, now that we've started to get some rain, and those with Austar and Foxtel satellite can tell you too, is that when you get a decent amount of rain within around 50km, you'll get a lot of breakup/loss of signal with due to the size of the dish. Get a 2 or 3 metre sized dish, and you won't get anywhere near the same sorts of issues with rain, but who really wants a 3 metre dish in your backyard ?