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[TSG]

Nah I'll just wait a few pays before tinkering again. I'm hoping the B4 will keep me happy until I move out next year sometime, then I'll change cars when I have more reliable access to a garage. I know I'm going to miss this car when its gone though.

[Sven Smergberd]

Yeah it happens, blame the girlfriend. Lol!
 
Neko, don't you have to be certified to do that? I don't see why it would be hard anyway, as long as you know what you are doing.
 
Also, why not just wifi?

Yeah but I need to plug modem into something. My apaartment has all the lines, but has blank sockets overbthem, so I have to replace the blanks with Cat 6 outlets. Not doing all 4, just 2 so I have 2 options for where I put the modem.


And certified? Pffft certified schmertified. But yeah it is piss easy.

[Zac]

Nah I'll just wait a few pays before tinkering again. I'm hoping the B4 will keep me happy until I move out next year sometime, then I'll change cars when I have more reliable access to a garage. I know I'm going to miss this car when its gone though.

Yeah I will be selling my B4, since I have the Outback, but Megan loves the B4 and I do too, in a way, which makes it hard to sell, but only 1 driver, and 2 cars

 

Yeah but I need to plug modem into something. My apaartment has all the lines, but has blank sockets overbthem, so I have to replace the blanks with Cat 6 outlets. Not doing all 4, just 2 so I have 2 options for where I put the modem.


And certified? Pffft certified schmertified. But yeah it is piss easy.

Sounds pretty easy.

 

Cable or ADSL? Cable needs to have the cable socket, like the one for foxtel. Adsl is normal phone lines

[Sven Smergberd]

Cable? I don't know. It's just the regular ethernet style, 8 wires.

[Zac]

Cable? I don't know. It's just the regular ethernet style, 8 wires.

I meant what kind of broadband internet you'd be getting

 

Dialup? - Old noise maker

 

Adsl? - Internet through your normal phone line, via the modem

 

Cable? - Internet through cables, through modem, not phone line

[Sven Smergberd]

Yeah....


Nah I think I'm getting Adsl. Doing the ol' Optus Entertainment bundle, some shit about fetch tv and movies etc.

[Robert]

porn thingy

[Zac]

Yeah....


Nah I think I'm getting Adsl. Doing the ol' Optus Entertainment bundle, some shit about fetch tv and movies etc.

I have that bundle. 

 

Choices are either ADSL or Cable, but all good.

 

ADSL means you need splitters on the phone line, or else there will be mad interruption on the line or internet won't work as well.

[Sven Smergberd]

I have that bundle. 
 
Choices are either ADSL or Cable, but all good.
 
ADSL means you need splitters on the phone line, or else there will be mad interruption on the line or internet won't work as well.

I won't be using a landline phone so will I still need splitters?

[Zac]

I won't be using a landline phone so will I still need splitters?

 

If not using the landline, get inline filters, just helps get a better internet signal and less dropouts of your connection.

 

They usually come in the box, the splitter they give you is a filter splitter, and you'd only need one just before the modem.

 

So it'll go wall socket to filter to modem.

[TSG]

You don't need a filter if you're plugging the modem directly into the wall. I've rocked it this way for years. One less thing in the way of the connection. You only need to filter ADSL out of your phone signal.

[Zac]

Was a thing we used to tell customers when working for Telstra, that if their connection was slow or dropping out, check their filter/splitter and swap with another one. 

 

Maybe just something to keep in mind if internet goes crap someday.

 

Cable is awesome.

 

NBN soon!

[Shaz]

I've got cable at home. Uses the same coaxial connection as our foxtel.

[Sven Smergberd]

Must get annoying having to coax that connection out everytime you want to fap.

our foxtel.

What the fark? It's 2015 Shaz.

[Shaz]

I don't even use Foxtel anymore since I got Netflix.

 

Might cancel it.

 

Cable speed is decent. I get like 45mb/s download. Good for HD pron.

[RX25SE]

Finally decided to get internet hooked up at home, going around apartment doing my own Cat 6 sockets, fork yeah so easy, who needs an electrician. The sockets even come with a stripping and crimping tool.


Also I have like 4 phoneline outlets in my 2 bed apartment, what the hell.


When I move into my own house going to be putting these bad boys everywhere.

 

Good way to go, I'll do the same for the reno at ours.

 

When my in IT mate was building his McMansion and before the plaster went on, we ran 2 Cat5 cables (1 phone, 1 internet) to all four bedrooms, lounge, kitchen, rumpus plus four lines from under the stairs (he had some compuder box thingy under there) to the study. Took two full days of drilling studs and wot-not to get all the cables through. When we were done I told him to take pics and mark the floors were the cable ends were so they don't get lost when the plaster goes on.

 

Of course he didn't as he was adamant that the plasterers would pull the ends through.

 

He now has wireless internet and cordless phones.....

 

 

 

If not using the landline, get inline filters, just helps get a better internet signal and less dropouts of your connection.

 

They usually come in the box, the splitter they give you is a filter splitter, and you'd only need one just before the modem.

 

So it'll go wall socket to filter to modem.

 

 

You don't need a filter if you're plugging the modem directly into the wall. I've rocked it this way for years. One less thing in the way of the connection. You only need to filter ADSL out of your phone signal.

 

 

I always thought the filters go in the lines to the phones and internet line has no filter?

 

That's how I wired my place.

[Zac]

Jase, because filter splitter from Telstra is the same device, can't have 1 without the other, and back in the day, most people used their land line, so needed filter splitter.

 

But yeah, if not using the landline for phone calls, could just plug modem into wall.

 

 

I dropped foxtel about 2 years ago, just pointless repeats, got the same Optus bundle as Niko, came with free fetchbox, on the basic package, so pointless, but now have netflix, US, and yeah, watching that most of the time.

 

Unlimited Cable internet is awesome, never have to check usage

 

Also got a free 10.1" Samsung Tablet, which is sitting in a drawer somewhere

[Sven Smergberd]

Yeah my plan is month to month unlimited with fetch tv (dvr) and access to 30 movies a month for $90. I'm paying tor it with my tax free wages and wife is claiming it on her tax for her business, so effectively claiming a refund on money that was never taxed in the first place. Such Greek. Many Wow.

[RX25SE]

MMMMmmm.... I think I need a new internet connection. We are still rocking ADSL2 but as we are the furthest point from all the nearby exchanges, the speed is woeful and the price doesn't match the speed. No other provider will connect to us due to the distance from the exchange.

 

I guess another cable in from the street is my only option.

[Zac]

Such Greek indeed Niko. Lol!  Many money saved.

 

And here I am, paying for my internet like a cubt.

 

 

Also, yes Jase, ADSL is very much dependent on the exchange and distance and quality of lines to your area.

 

Cable is cool. Could look at Satellite, but would be expensive probably