Okay, our area has just got NBN and I'm looking for an ISP. Using websites like etc it's easy to get the basic information you need like price, data limits, expected speed etc. However, …
Hi my friends! Our area has just been connected to the NBN. Unfortunately, it is an FTTN connection. As you know, the max distance you can be from the node to get the max speed of 100Mb/s is about …
I will be 63 in two months and still working. My wife is 61 and retired. I have a $400k mortgage on my home (LVR=62%) with $400k sitting in its offset account. Interest rate is variable at 3.89% …
Has anybody received an unsolicited email like this? It smells of a scam to me, but I called the Australian Information Commissioner and they said it wasn't. The recipient of this email had in …
Recently, some senior figure in NBN Co was quoted as saying that there is no demand for gigabit Internet. How would he know that if no ISP offers it? I'm confident that off-the-cuff remark …
When my wife and I are watching TV, I find I need a comfortable listening level lower than her. How can we both listen, each at our own comfortable levels? I thought of plugging headphones into the …
I am so newbie at this, its not funny. I have successfully installed VirtualBOX on a laptop Windows 7 platform and then installed UBUNTU 16.04 LTS inside of that. My laptop only has a WIFI …
I know this sounds awefully simple question. In order to login to my router's web interface, I need to use a port address!! i.e. From a Chrome browser, using 192.168.1.1 does not work; so to …
Can anybody help me on this as I am not a networking expert and I am trying to help a friend who knows even less than me (blind leading the blinder)!! I am successfully remoting in to a …
My friend's ADSL modem router is dying. I am trying to buy them a new modem/router with some degree of future proofing included. They don't have NBN yet (soon?). Do you think I can do …
A while back I had a tyre puncture (standard tubless tyre) and took it to a garage to have it "professionally" repaired. They used a method where a soft rubbery plug (with glue) thingly is …
I'm excited (I think)!! Yesterday I got a flyer in the mail saying that NBN is coming to my area. It is supposed to be installed Q4 of 16. I suspect that I will only be geting fibre-to-the-node …
My friend of mine uses a property manager to manage a rental property she owns. She found out that the tenant had been late by a couple of months in paying rent and utility bills (in SA, water bill …
I found out that my health cover will pay for a blood pressure monitor up to $500 in cost! I think that for that money I should be able to get a Rolls Royce model! Primary requirements …
Has anybody encountered this type is issue before? I am a landlord (in SA) and have my property (average suburban 3 br house in the burbs) managed through a property manager. For historical reasons …
