I knocked together a script to log some of the statistics off our VDSL modem after some weird problems with our quaint Australian internet service,

Now I have a detailed record of the upstream bandwidth getting gradually worse periodically (with no visible pattern of correlation) for a month, and bouncing back after each power cycle...

So probably scripting a modem reboot once a day is what I *actually* should have automated 🙄

(Script is at https://github.com/projectgus/xdsl2mqtt if any #NBN customers want to play along at home.)

@KontributeGaming

Spare a thought for those stuck on deteriorating copper, with not chance of an upgrade in the foreseeable future.

Or worse, those on the NBN's fixed wi-fi or appalling satellite.

#NBN

Dear #NBN: in what universe is it acceptable to be planning an all-day outage on a workday in the remote work era?

In this week’s ep of Vertical Hold: Behind The Texh News, we’re talking the great #NBN speed lottery, tax time scam avoidance tips… oh yeah, and I sing. It’s what the people want, I feel. #podcast #technology #australia https://verticalhold.com.au/2023/08/04/nbn-extends-australias-fibre-lottery-mygov-scammers-cash-in-on-tax-time-vertical-hold-ep-440/

Q: what's small, black, and blinks uselessly when there's a power outage?
A: #NBN #HFC NTD running on 12V back-up power.

Q: what's small and drops about 75% of the IP traffic passed through it?
A: a #4G mobile phone trying to reach the cell tower which #Telstra installed at their exchange over the other side of a bloody ridge!

Q: what sounds like a cross between R2D2 and a darlek?
A: my coworkers via #Slack over aforementioned 4G connection.

NBN Co Reshuffles Digital Leadership With Crispin Blackall's Exit #itnews #nbn http://mwyr.es/3Q2z03w

I still laugh at Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull's "25Mbps is enough" #auspol #NBN

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-cos-chief-operating-officer-kathrine-dyer-to-leave-597640 #NBN

NBN vs 5G in my office.

I'll be doing meetings on 5G today.

#nbn #nbnvs5G

I see my little suburb has a tentative date of October this year to upgrade from #FTTN to #fibre, having originally been scheduled for October 2013. Dare... dare I hope?

#nbn

https://techau.com.au/here-is-the-full-list-of-suburbs-nbn-is-upgrading-to-fttp-between-now-and-2025/
According to this, my suburb is now slated to be upgraded in December 2023. I'll believe it when it happens. We were originally supposed to get FTTP but that changed when the federal government did. And we ended up with crappy subpar FTTN instead.
#NBN #FTTN #FTTP #Australia

Yaay… great going #SkyMuster #NBN

```
RC=0 stuartl@rikishi ~ $ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=117 time=3030 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=117 time=3017 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=117 time=2552 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 3 received, 62.5% packet loss, time 7096ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2551.750/2866.130/3029.759/222.362 ms, pipe 3
```

Yaay… great going #SkyMuster #NBN

```
RC=0 stuartl@rikishi ~ $ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=117 time=3030 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=117 time=3017 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=117 time=2552 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 3 received, 62.5% packet loss, time 7096ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2551.750/2866.130/3029.759/222.362 ms, pipe 3
```

Yaay… great going #SkyMuster #NBN

```
RC=0 stuartl@rikishi ~ $ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=117 time=3030 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=117 time=3017 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=117 time=2552 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 3 received, 62.5% packet loss, time 7096ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2551.750/2866.130/3029.759/222.362 ms, pipe 3
```

Yaay… great going #SkyMuster #NBN

```
root@wicen2:~# ping -c 4 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=117 time=2698 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=117 time=2109 ms

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 2 received, 50% packet loss, time 3023ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2108.996/2403.616/2698.237/294.620 ms, pipe 2
```

Yaay… great going #SkyMuster #NBN

```
root@wicen2:~# ping -c 4 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=117 time=2698 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=117 time=2109 ms

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 2 received, 50% packet loss, time 3023ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2108.996/2403.616/2698.237/294.620 ms, pipe 2
```

#NBN #ripoff

https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2023/06/02/nbn-broadband-prices/?utm_campaign=Saturday%20News%20-%2020230603&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra&lr_hash=

I closed my #NBN internet account and installed a #5G internet account with a different phone company

Thinking about how incandescent some of my friends get when I explain that, while I have fibre-to-the-premises #nbn, I am a cheapskate who refuses to pay more than I did for ADSL and thus am only on a 25/5 plan.

Has @optus locked access to #router settings on #NBN connections?