when moving house there always seems to be a yukky long delay
in getting broadband on, like up to a week
is there anyway of getting round that?
is it cos most people take over the same number?
Browse Forums Move Management Re: Internet issues when you move house.... 7Apr 27, 2009 8:25 am Blog - http://snakedr.blogspot.com/ Build Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12084&p=307406#p307406 Status - PCI 15/10. Things nearly done. Re: Internet issues when you move house.... 10Jan 06, 2010 10:48 pm It can be more complicated than that. Stupidly in retrospect I signed to a 2 year contract with my ISP/phone company about 9 months ago. Best case scenario we are in the new place in 10 months, worst case 12 months. Still a shortfall of 3 months. Not a problem except that our ISP cannot cover that area. No problem they say we can give you a wireless air card. Except where we are moving is a dead spot between valleys, which is why the entire area is a fibre optic. ISP/phone company answer is "hopefully by the time you move we can secure a port for the network for you and if not then you can switch your mobiles to us for the remainder of your contract". Except our mobiles are contracted to a different provider with a little overlap between the two, of course the mobile provider has very minimal coverage where we are moving to. I can get text messages and missed call messages but not make any actual calls. The developer recommends we swith to X mobile and ISP coverage as they are building a new tower in the estate "soon". No idea if that "soon" will cover the remainder of our contract period and it totally sucks that we really are forced to go with a particular ISP/phone provider. Open market it is not. I have however asked to try to see if we can have an ADSL2 port with our current ISP and they have discussed other ways of meeting our contract payments with other services within the range. So hopefully we can get some sort of thing worked out. Stupid that we started new contracts on mobiles and ISP and then only a few weeks later decided on moving. Worst case scenario we have 3 months of crappy mobile phone reception within our own home until we can switch our ISP credit to crappy mobile phone reception until the 6 months is up. I can manage slow internet. I'm not on ADSL2 now so what I don't know won't hurt me. Re: Internet issues when you move house.... 11Mar 27, 2010 10:24 am My experience is the same as another forum user's that I remember reading about. As we are moving to an address serviced by a different exchange we had to have a new phone number. Our Internet Service Provider provisioned our new phone number with ADSL and kept the old number going with ADSL at the shaped speed, so we have access at the old address, albeit slow, at the same time. We were very lucky to be able to get ADSL from a non-Telstra reseller. Only 40% of the phone lines in our new development have provision for ADSL. Searching Whirlpool revealed many who were continuously applying, hoping for someone to give up their ADSL so that a port became available for them in our suburb. Some have been applying for more than a year. A couple of streets across from us, all the ports are taken. The speed is much slower than ADSL2, and it is more expensive, but still MUCH less expensive than either Telstra or Telstra re-sellers. Do we need a National Broadband Network? Absolutely. Should Telstra be involved? In my opinion, given their disregard for customers, absolutely not. Tasmania's rollout appears to be doing very well without them. Pfiff Finally making progress again, with a clothesline (yippee) and some much needed little things being attended to over the holidays. 40 C on New Year's eve? We love our a/c! I have a home gym at home. It weights 150KG including the weight stack. I'm a big boy, around 150KG myself. I was thinking about moving it up stairs to the second… 0 6753 3 6959 Hi It came to my attention after the handover that - The facade cladding on the face and the side are not straight. -The face tapers down by 50mm from left to right and… 0 3071 |