DD>> Weren't you speaking recently of the abysmal phone lines in

 DD>> your neck of the woods?



 IS> Yeah, those miles out, up valleys, over creeks, up hills, down cliffs, 

 IS> y'know?

 IS> .. but half a k from new exchange/s plugged into the inland coastal fibre 

 IS> link

 IS> via Lismore and Murwillumbah, well hey, the lines have been great over a 

 IS> year.



 IS> Grafton getting extra wet has been known to make Sydney links take a drop 

 IS> for a

 IS> day or two .. only once to Brisbane that I recall.  Lots of 

 IS> waterproofness

 IS> testing of fairly new gear underway up and down the coast as we type, eh?



 IS> Some people are now doing fine even from 8 to 12km out; I hear regular 

 IS> 26400 or

 IS> better to local ISPs, where a year earlier a good 14k4 connect was a rare 

 IS> and

 IS> managed treat, from anywhere out there and sometimes just downtown .. and 

 IS> the

 IS> 30km from Lismore to here was the world's worst line, fair dink :)



Do you Mind if I dial into you from FNQ within the next week,

might as well get sum line stats from here to your place while I am

flying high.



Russell

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