<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Perhaps someone needs to enlighten Telstra that the forrestry industry has progressed from using axes for felling trees and instead prefer things like chainsaws because you can do the same thing in a lot shorter time. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>My DSL suffers "rain fade" as well. If I could find a source of 10 minute interval rainfall data I would plot that against packet loss to show the
correlation.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Heinz N <ausnog@equisoft.com.au><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 20 November 2013 5:49 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [AusNOG] "It's like grandfather's axe"<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><a
href="http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/telstras-copper-is-nearly-beyond-repair-and-an-absolute-disgrace-union-20131120-hv3mp.html" target="_blank">http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/telstras-copper-is-nearly-beyond-repair-and-an-absolute-disgrace-union-20131120-hv3mp.html</a><br><br>"It's like grandfather's axe; It's had five new handles and three new <br>heads. When it breaks, we replace the broken bit. So it's much the same as <br>it always has been and always will be," Mr Lee said.<br><br><flame suit on><br><br>I am sure glad that my DSL dropouts and bad connect speeds during heavy <br>rain will be speedily fixed by Telstra. It is also good to hear that the <br>copper network just needs a bit of a 'polish' to bring it up to world <br>standards and we will be getting multiple MBit upload DSL speeds when they <br>adjust it just a little bit. We are sure the clever country.<br><br></flame suit on><br><br>Just my
personal opinion.<br><br>H.<br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>