This might be old news, but Telstra has finally opened their new Gunghalin exchange which is ADSL compatible

for the story:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1112678.htm

I think the Gunghalin exchange was officially opened on Wednesday 19th. But if ADSL is really avalable to pair gain victims still remains to be seen. Although, when I applied in the beggining of march, they did say that there was copper at the curb, but my house was too far from the exchange (Mitchell, cause Gunghalin wasn't opened at the time). Here's hoping I am lucky this time around.

BTW, I now get 33.6 connect speeds with my phoneline (was about 53.3kbps on one of those "calculate the connection speed" things) I never had more than 28.8k myself until about last weekend. Maybe this isn't a smoke screen after all... *fingers crossed*

The other "hope on the horizon" for you guys is the increase in distance from exchange allowed...

Actually an increase in the allowable transmission loss, but the effect is an increase in distance.

KrasH - if you were rejected in March you should check again... new limits came into play end of March - early April.

EDIT: just because there is a new exchange closer doesn't change the exchange you connect to... in the old days it was a physical connection from the house to the exchange... nowadays (as I understand it) there are some points along the way where they can re-route... but it still requires work to do. (not exactly something Telstra is famed for)

last edited by chainsaw at 08:22:34 22/May/04

"OH, BTW, I also read that Transact expects to be enabled in Gunghalin in August/September."

The transact system is somewhat better than ADSL, as in less dropouts, guarenteed minimum speed and can reach further distances. Works in the same means as ADSL but is somewhat different in terms of compression.

Apparently someone was setting up a wireless BB solution near the Amaroo high school for Gungahlin, Anyone know if this happening still or was it a pipe dream? I seem to remember the prices being quite high.

@ Chainsaw

I know that I am connected to mitchell (crase), but a few months ago telstra were doing alot of "re-cabling" of the suburb I am in. But knowing my luck,my latest adsl request will fail. Atleast in the next year or so that new wireless network standard (forgot the name) will be available. Apparently has a 50km range ;)

Just did the ADSL test on telstra's website and it says that i can get ADSL .

I live in Ngunnawal near the shops

Im just wondering if their ADSL thing is acurate or not !

And if i can get it yet or if their is going to be another long wait !

Agent_K

You should be able to get it, I live at the other end of kathryn Ave.
Telstra installed the minimux technolgy in most of the RIMs across Amaroo, b4 the new exchange was built,(although they only installed 16 ports in my local rim for 40+ houses or something), Cos you border Amaroo you most likely will have access to the service anyways.

but who knows this is Telstra!

If you want to test ur line, go to ur local telstra shop and they can do a comprehensive line test that is fairly accurate as it actually tests ur line rather then looking in a database and saying ur exchange is enabled.