For 6 years I have tried unsucessfully to join the land of the living by getting ADSL at my house, and for 6 years I have been told it's impossible. First, by my landline carrier Optus, who referred me to Telstra as they were the only ones who could remove my pair gain, then from Telstra over and over and over, as I continually sought ways around this.
After a few years, and failed attempts at wireless broadband with both Optus and Vodafone (seems I'm in a 3G black hole), the Australian government paid for me to get a satellite dish, under the Australian Broadband Guarantee. Even the government could see that I had no other option available! However, the satellitre service was sketchy, often, due to large trees on nearby properties obscuring the signal, as well as being inhibitively expensive, so in the end, I returned to intermittent, very slow (at times in bps) wireless broadband.
But all the while, I looked longinly at the ads for affordable, fast internet, and as my children have gotten older they are expected to have internet access in the home, which would mean, with the wireless system, paying for more than one service.
Crying on the phone to Telstra, throwing potential solutions at them, a month ago got me a quote for $400 to investigate the pair gain, with no guarantee of anything coming of it, and in fact being heavily discourage from pursuing it further by the woman on the other end of the line.
I stepped my research up a notch, finding wholesale phone line rental websites, and a list of orders for line transposition which gave me a clue…
I called TPG, asked for a line transposition, and they said "OK".
Skeptical at the best of times, I refused to believe it could happen, after 6 years of being told "No",
until now, as I post this from my high speed, unlimited, ADSL2+ that I'm paying just under $30 a month for! I was paying the same thing for 3G of super slow, and often non-existent internet, yesterday!
Today, I have joined the world.
Moral to this story…..
Never give up!
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