Off subject but I need help

[Bret Busby]

On 17/07/2019, Peter <petergoggin at bigpond.com> wrote:
> My telephone and internet services have been converted to NBN. I am
> having considerable problems which Telstra seem unable to fix. The
> telephone service is unreliable, call go to voice mail and the phone
> does not ring and yet we can call out. Resetting the telstra modem fixes
> the problem for a day or so but the it comes back. Most of the time the
> internet worked normally. Now for the past few days logging onto the
> internet causes problesm.
> When I connect to the internet I get a message :
> Load cannot follow more then 20 redirections.
>   I have tried with three laptops and get the same problem , hence
> unlikely to be a laptop problem.
>
> The signal strength is good when setting up the connection but then is
> displayed as a '?'. My browser will connect to the internet but once a
> page is selected it is not always possible to follow links. It claims
> firefox has detected the server is redirecting the request in a way that
> will never complete and problem may be caused by not accepting cookies.
>   So far telstra have replaced their modem but this did not make any
> difference.
>
> I do  not understand what is going.
>
> Am I alone in having problems with the conversion to NBN.
>   I realise this is not the right list for these problems but if ubuntu
> is responsible for trying to get onto hotspots please tell me how to
> stop it.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Goggin
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After about a year of problems with having been forced to switch to
the No B$@@#y Network, with Optus, and, having been through a number
of modem/routers, that each failed within a few months, the last one
lasting about two weeks, I switched this household to using 4G for
accessing the Internet.

I have a cellphone with two different SIM cards, each a different
carrier, we have another cellphone, and. I have a 4G modem/router with
Ethernet and WiFi.

With four different SIM cards in use, I cut our monthly costs by about
$50, and, with the cellphones used for WiFi hotspots, they give better
continuity and performance, than current available modems.

Depending on your location within Australia, you may be able to get
much better performance using 4G and maybe 5G access, than is possible
from the NBN.

You should have a satisfaction period, where, if, within 30 or so
days, if you are not satisfied with the NBN service, you can cancel
it. You would lose your landline number (we have lost ours, that we
had for about 25 years), but, with the NBN, when the power goes off,
so do landline telephone connections, so, you are better off using
cellphones, anyway, now.

If you want to contact me offline, I am happy to discuss this further,
with more details, but, at this stage, I strongly recommend cancelling
the NBN connection, and switching completely to 4G cellphone network
access.

The NBN is simply best described by what the acronym really
represents; No B$@@#y Network.

Oh, and, with using the cellphones as wifi hotspots, I have a
UbuntuMATE 18.04.x system accessing my cellphone, and a UbuntuMATE
16.04.x system also concurrently connected, and, me missus uses a
Windows 10 system to connect to her cellphone (same model cellphone as
mine) through USB tethering (which also, concurrently, charges the
phone), and she sometimes works from home, with that access - she is a
senior software developer.

And, reasonably good data quota plans are available at reasonable
pricing, for 4G network plans.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
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 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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