[AusNOG] Dealing with Bigpond Faults

[McDonald Richards]

Does cable TV go out at the same time?

Macca


On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Skeeve Stevens <
skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Wonder if anyone has any easier way of dealing with Telstra Bigpond faults.
>
> A number of times in the past few months there has been significant
> outages (HFC) in our area (Glebe).
>
> They admit the problem on their Service Status page - which is a good
> thing.
>
> But then the fault says closed/resolved... but most of the time it isn't
> resolved.
>
> Then you phone the call centre in the Philippines and they are almost
> beyond useless.
>
> You get them to look up the fault... they find it, say its resolved and
> offer to send someone out to check your setup - in about 4-5 days.
>
> No matter what you say you can't get them to re-open the actual fault that
> is already logged and closed... you just sit there and suffer for days
> until enough people yell and scream.
>
> One time I let the truck roll happen.  They came out 4 days later...
> walked in, and said they knew there was still issues as there were a dozen
> service calls they were being asked to attend.
>
> This must cost them HEAPS in wasted call-outs when they could just leave
> the fault open and get people to work on it as opposed to closing it and
> their engineers thinking everything is ok.
>
> Last night an outage started around 7pm... by 10pm it was resolved and
> gone off the service status page, but a dozen people in the complex are
> still broken and experiencing massive latency and loss.  My only advice to
> them is to yell at Telstra support, and they do, but nothing happens.
>
> Divide and ignore.
>
> Is there someone in Australia you can talk to who will actually listen to
> you and actually be able to do something about getting online?
>
> I can't wait for NBNCo to take over the HFC network and get rid of bloody
> Telstra for a provider who cares about their customers.  At least then if
> there is an issue dozens of providers will kick NBNCo till it is fixed.
>
> </rant>
>
> ...Skeeve
>
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