Friday 3 September, 2010

Living on a RIM

Submitted by Darren Pauli - ... on Fri, 15/08/2008 - 11:36

I have had a bad history with ISPs to which I lay blame on my petulance and decision to live on the face of a mountain.

I went offline for a few months to do some research after prying myself out of a painfully slow contract with a trashy ISP (I went the cheap and nasty route assuming the company could provide advertised speeds).

Competition had since increased in my area and there is now a bunch of ADSL2+ DSLAMs. But as I found out, about 50 percent of the area (housing the majority of the population) are cut off from ADSL2+ because they lie on a Remote Integrated Multiplexer (RIM) network. RIMs allow Telstra to provision voice services to thousands of homes without the need to build out extra copper lines.

I rang the folks at Telstra who were more than accomodating with conducting line tests, and I was told that I can get ADSL2+. But only through Bigpond, as it does not provide wholesale access over RIMs.

So if I lived four ks down the road in the business end of town, perhaps next door to the KFC or McDonald's, I would have access to a dozen 2+ enabled DSLAMs.

I've just signed up for yet another $30 useless home phone service in order to sign up to a preceeded broadband service which may be slowed further as it traverses the RIM.

I bite my lip each time I see one of those ads for ADSL2+ with a squillion gigs of downloads for $30. How many more are in my boat?

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Mon, 07/09/2009 - 12:23 — Anonymous

In exactly the same boat

I can get adsl 2+ as long as I want to be ripped off by Telstra. I'm in Tassie so will probably be offered 100Mbps within a year for more than I'm willing to pay. Is there nothing we can do about this RIM situation apart from move?

Tue, 26/05/2009 - 12:33 — Anonymous

Internode fixed me up

I am apparently on a RIM here in SA but Internode hooked me up with adsl1 (no 2 in this area yet) no problems.
For what it's worth,
grantgee

Mon, 02/03/2009 - 15:56 — Anonymous

Yep, in the same boat.

Yep, in the same boat. Connected to a RIM, but even BigPond says I'm unable to get ADSL2+. To make things even more fun, there are no ADSL(1) ports left either.

Wed, 10/09/2008 - 11:10 — AngryOldGuy

Would you like fries? Or the burger?

Funny thing happened on the way to ADSL2 plus...

ME : I want to upgrade to ADSL 2 please
TELSTRA : You can upgrade EITHER my service OR the modem.
ME : But I need both.
TELSTRA : Yes. Which would you like?
ME : But if I upgrade the modem and not the service then I won't have ADSL 2. And vice versa.
TELSTRA : That's right.
ME : That doesn't make any sense.
TELSTRA : Our system will only let us put one item onto your account each month. Either an upgrade. Or a modem purchase.

Ok so I can have the fries or the burger but not both. The idea of having your ADSL2 cake and eating it too is definitely out of the question.

So I upgrade the service and buy a snazzy Belkin N-series ADSL2+ modem router from Harvey Norman that looks better than anything else I own - and that's $400 Telstra didn't get out of me. Better in Gerry Harvey's pocket than Sol Trujillo's I guess....at least Gerry's an Aussie

Sun, 05/04/2009 - 20:11 — Anonymous

Now hear this ;)

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"Am hoping the National Broadband revamp will at least increase my opportunities.."
Unquote.

Dream on!!!! what on earth makes you think the national broadband network will increase your chances of ADSL2+ etc?

The good senator in charge of that project is the same boofhead that wants to filter all net traffic at the ISP! now if I was a bettin man and Im not, however I reckon that if a filter is going to be placed on any network it will be the "national" broadband one.
You can have ADLS 2 but it will be so crippled by the filtering technology it will in all likelihood be as slow as ADSL 1 or worse.

My ISP is now offering ADSL1+2 @ 8 meg for $80.00 a month with 5 gig of download, what a joke!
I will keep my ADSL 1 and 25 gig cap for $60 a month.

Cheers!

Thu, 28/08/2008 - 16:29 — Anonymous

I hear you

I too am behind a RIM and currently paying stupid amounts of money for adsl1 via Telstra as they are the only possible provider. It is very annoying to see the TPG et al advertisements with their large download quotas for a fraction of the cost at much higher speeds. Its just unfair.

Am hoping the National Broadband revamp will at least increase my opportunities...

 
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