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<p>I just want to bitch that I live in a Brisbane suburb that in the last 5 - 10 years has been developed into a quite a mini city - they are expecting 450 000 people to be living in the area within the next few years. You would think that while they were building they would have set things up for the internet. But No. I have to have wireless 4g internet. I am lucky enough to get 8gigs a month for around $70 -$80. No sign of the NBN for the foreseeable future. Fucktards.</p>
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<p>You have a beach full of Nordic tourists to look at, so you'll understand if my heart doesn't bleed for you.</p>
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<p>The beach is actually full of British tourists, who treat it like an ash tray and/or a dump. </p>
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<p>There's a decent amount of South Americans though. :yes:</p> -
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<p>The beach is actually full of British tourists, who treat it like an ash tray and/or a dump. </p>
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<p>There's a decent amount of <strong>South Americans</strong> though. :yes:</p>
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<p>Was at Waipatiki on the weekend and there was a Brazilian couple along from us. The bloke was the best looking woman I've ever seen, apart from his girlfriend.</p> -
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<p>I was at Manly on the weekend and there was a crapload of willowy 20somethings speaking like the chef out of the Muppets.</p>
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<p>Considering I actually live in Manly and walk those beaches every day I'd suggest you got lucky
- the bulk of the foreigners in Manly are English/Irish (not that there aren't sizeable numbers of backpackers from other areas).</p>
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<p>Was at Waipatiki on the weekend and there was a Brazilian couple along from us. The bloke was the best looking woman I've ever seen, apart from his girlfriend.</p>
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<p>I haven't been to Waipatiki since I was about 4. It's always easier to go to Ocean. </p> -
<p>Well Nepia, I went to Ocean last week and believe it or not, I couldn't even get parked! Not good. Mind you Waipatiki now has actual streets which are full of glass, aluminium and cedar two-storied "baches".</p>
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<p>Things have gone downhill ever since Piggy Muldoon left office if you ask me. :ireful:</p> -
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<p>Considering I actually live in Manly and walk those beaches every day I'd suggest you got lucky - the bulk of the foreigners in Manly are English/Irish (not that there aren't sizeable numbers of backpackers from other areas).</p>
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<p>Weather wasn't great - think they were all looking for breakfast. </p> -
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<p>Weather wasn't great - think they were all looking for breakfast. </p>
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<p>So they weren't wandering around in bikinis at the time? :(</p>
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<p>Well Nepia, I went to Ocean last week and believe it or not, I couldn't even get parked! Not good. Mind you Waipatiki now has actual streets which are full of glass, aluminium and cedar two-storied "baches".</p>
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<p>Things have gone downhill ever since Piggy Muldoon left office if you ask me. :ireful:</p>
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<p>We're (my family) are from Ocean - it always gets crazy busy on the hot days. A few years ago the Lowe Corporation were trying to develop Ocean Beach into a seaside community but thankfully it didn't go ahead.</p> -
<p>For fuck's fucking sake...</p>
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<p>Something must have hit the fan with the local exchange, because my shit just fell off an internet cliff.</p>
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<p>This was peak speed I could get any time after 7PM tonight - everything else was under 3.0Mbps</p>
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<p>For fuck's fucking sake...</p>
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<p>Something must have hit the fan with the local exchange, because my shit just fell off an internet cliff.</p>
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<p>This was peak speed I could get any time after 7PM tonight - everything else was under 3.0Mbps</p>
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<p>I get that regularly at home - will be fine for a while and then slow down so that I remember the days of dial up.</p>
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<p>Struggling to hit 2mbps this morning.</p>
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<p>I'm on one of the test ports on the frame - apparently Telstra ran out of regular ports because they were unable to comprehend what "growth corridor" means. And because I'm on Telstra copper with Exetel, I pay an extra $10 a month for the privilege.</p>
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<p>fluffybunnies.</p>
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<p>Now Exetel have various Sri Lankan support "technicians" asking me to ping things. They even sent me a script, which I promptly modified with better accuracy, and sent back to them with results.</p>
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<p>So hard to get good help these days. Wish these fluffybunnies would hurry up:</p>
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<p>I don't have the option to move to a better area. Fucking mortgage. We made an offer on a place when be bought this one - it had FTTP but wife didn't like the kitchen :ireful:</p> -
<p>At long last I'm in the first world!</p>
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<p>From a low of</p>
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<p>I'm going to spend all day sending myself large files just because I can.</p> -
Lucky bastard. I'm stuck on ADSL, it's fucking atrocious. Can't even stream one video without it freezing intermittently. Bad times.
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<p>Wow. Forgive me when I sum up my feelings graphically as per this GIF:</p>
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<p>Lucky bastard. I'm stuck on ADSL, it's fucking atrocious. Can't even stream one video without it freezing intermittently. Bad times.</p>
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<p>Kellyville exchange is due for FTTN
some time around September. Fortunately I'm on copper that is only a few years old so will probably be able to aspire to something higher than 25mbps</p> -
I got my fibre installed today - pretty happy with the results
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Fuck.
I've been on FTTN (which is VDSL) for a couple of months now.
When it first started, it was about 16/5 which was in part due to other phone wiring in the house.
Piss that off (fucking alarm installers made a dirty connection) and it went up nicely
Decided to try a 100/40 plan, but because I was about 800m of copper from the nearest pillar it didn't improve much. Got the sparky in to move my network cabinet closer to the point of entry, and picked up to 25/6 ish.
VDSL has shitty noise beyond a couple of hundred metres, so the 100/40 plan was never really going to do better than that.
But then SOMETHING fucking happened on 1st November and its back down to 17/4 at best. And the fluffybunnies still haven't told me why that speed drop.
When you're used to 6/0.8 its fucking amazing of course. But I have seen 25/5 run at full capacity and the shitlickers can't get it right.
