{"id":182,"date":"2012-11-16T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:21:14","slug":"fianally-adsl2-i-was-lucky-just-to-get-adsl1-when-i-first-moved-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klaverstyn.com.au\/david\/blog\/2012\/11\/fianally-adsl2-i-was-lucky-just-to-get-adsl1-when-i-first-moved-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Fianally ADSL2+. I was lucky just to get ADSL1 when I first moved in."},"content":{"rendered":"

When I just moved into my place at Springfield Lakes in January 2012 I rang Telstra to get Internet connected and they said it was unavailable, not enough ports available within my local DA (Distribution Area).\u00a0 I’m on DA96 connected to the Goodna exchange.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Anyhow, I was told to ring back in a month and check.\u00a0 That was not acceptable.\u00a0 I could not believe in this day and age that basic Internet access was not available to everyone, so I started to research my options.\u00a0 I have a radio tower about 800 metres from me, direct line of sight so worst case scenario I could use 3G.\u00a0 Another option I found was a private company called Puddlenet Communications that has filled the void of DSL with a 5 GHz wireless mesh network.<\/p>\n

Once I found out about Puddlenet I looked further into it and then started looking at the homes in my area and I noticed that a lot of homes had 5 GHz directional antennas, so it was obvious that there were a lot of people in the same situation as me.\u00a0 The only problem with Puddlenet was their plans, like 3G is expensive with limited data allowances.<\/p>\n

So I got back onto Telstra and rang them up every second day.\u00a0 It took me two weeks before they said I could get connected.\u00a0 Someone in my area must have so I was lucky enough to get a connection.\u00a0 To the right here is a picture of one of the antennas that people around here have.\u00a0 I took this picture of my neighbours house.<\/p>\n

You could image how slow ADSL1 is when you are use to at a minimum ADSL2+.\u00a0 I’m happy to have ADSL2+ but I can’t wait until the NBN is rolled out in this area.\u00a0 The only reason I was able to get ADSL2 was because the NBN is not planned in my area for at least another 3 years so Telstra decided to upgrade this area as part of their Top Hat project.<\/p>\n

Here are the results of my before and after speed tests along my with my modems synchronisation speeds.<\/p>\n

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One thing I will say about Telstra is that as soon as I saw the Top Hat spreadsheet from Telstra Wholesale say that my DA was upgraded I rang them that morning and within 1 hour my speed had changed.\u00a0 Telstra did tell me that it would take 3-4 days for the change to take effect.\u00a0 They were wrong there, but I’m happy about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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