I'm not sure if anyone else has this problem but when I top up my pre-paid Optus connection (which I use for normal Internet access) I have to turn the phone off and then back on again to force the top-up to work. It's a minor inconvenience but an inconvenience none-the-less.

If this is a standard feature, it may be worth making sure there's enough data allowance available on the backup connection before the outside broadcast begins.

This is an Aldi SIM card which runs on the Telstra network and being data only top ups are done on-line so maybe not an issue but will be wary.
Thanks for the heads up anyway and I guess a short program break to top up the card is better than no normal program with just a laptop playing endless music which has been the norm in the past during outages.

The NBN delays getting connections sorted have been quite protracted for some of the presenters with one not having any Internet connection for over a week.

Today my other place was connected to the NBN, and rather surprisingly, the speeds are the same as here, even with different technologies.

Out there, there's a node somewhere down the road (never seen it), then ordinary overhead telephone wires up to the house.

Here, it's HFC, so a cable connecting the pit (right out the front) to the house.

In both cases, 23.5 Mb down, 4.5 up.

There's a difference in installation though - here has an extra NBN cable modem which joins to the Telstra modem; out there the incoming line plugs directly into the Telstra modem - there's no extra NBN one.

Also (although I haven't done an extensive check yet), there doesn't seem to be any NBN interference to AM out there.

Well, I guess I'm done with this thread. Good luck to everyone else who still needs to switch over.

In both cases, 23.5 Mb down, 4.5 up.

At what times of the day?

Good luck to everyone else who still needs to switch over.

Here at home it's HFC. At my workshop it's copper back to the node (which is on the street right out front).

I don't (yet) bother with Internet at my workshop. At home, as per a previous post, I am a holdout until everyone else in the street has been connected so that they can deal with any issues instead of me. (Besides which Telstra texted me a while back telling me to hang onto my landline until further notice. That raised a warning flag with me regarding the state of the HFC in my street.)

BTW: Did you retain your landline phone number(s), if any?

With Telstra, there didn't seem to be a choice about landline phone numbers - you get a phone number, like it or not. If you don't want one, don't plug the phone into the Telstra modem.

So, the number for here stayed the same. The other place was a new install, and they gave me a phone number for that too.

I tested the phone in both places, which worked. However I only have one tone phone, so it will stay here, and I'll rely on my mobile phone at the other place.

At what time of the day? Early afternoon.

BTW: the Telstra modem keeps a record of all the phone calls you make as metadata, so the number called, the time, the duration.

At what time of the day? Early afternoon.

The advertised 'Typical Evening Speed' relates to the period 7pm through 11pm, when bandwidth-hogging services like Netflix get a hammering. Would be interesting to make some tests at that time of day.

I did a test at the other place both before and after the NBN was connected. Before connection, it went through a mobile phone tower somewhere I guess. The speed for that was 5Mb down, and 0.9Mb up.

I also worked out the trick about the free bonus when I first plugged it in. The first time the modem is powered up, it will want to update its firmware. After that it reboots.

The trick is if you're an existing customer, the new modem comes already set up with your internet username and password all ready to go. But if you're new, it comes with a default userid which I think was newdsluserbigpond.com, and while it's downloading the updates, you can get onto the internet for free. However, once it reboots, the default userid no longer works. You have to go in and enter your Internet userid and password before it will work again.

I also took the time to turn off all the services I don't need, these being Wifi, uPNP, NAT-PMP, Wake on LAN over the Internet, DynDNS, Remote Assistance, File Server, DLNA, and Printer Sharing. For your own security, you should also change your Internet password (on the My Telstra page in your browser), and the modem's Admin login. Both are setup with default passwords which are commonly known.

When you change the Internet password, your modem will stop communicating, so you have to correctly enter the new password in there too.

Wake On LAN is only useful if you did as I once did and run your own servers. If for some reason the server knocks itself out, WOL is a useful tool to kick it in the guts. You need the function turned on in the CMOS settings and then you need a WOL programme on your computer to send the signal to the server's network card. It's good after blackouts or if someone wrongfully turns the server off.

Most of those protocols aren't really needed for most people.

As requested just did the speed test 19:06

23.9 Mbits down, 4.7 Mbits up.

As requested just did the speed test . 19:06 23.9 Mbits down, 4.7 Mbits up.

So, that's on the Tier 25 plan?

I guess so - I haven't got a bill for the new connection yet.


I think they call it "Standard Evening Speed".

I think they call it "Standard Evening Speed".

ISPs now have to publish the typical evening speed for each of their plans, such as:

Tier, Maximum speed, Evening speed
Basic (NBN 12), 12Mbps, 7Mbps
Standard (NBN 25), 25Mbps, 15Mbps
Standard Plus (NBN 50), 50Mbps, 30Mbps
Premium (NBN 100), 100Mbps, 60Mbps

So, typical evening speeds are supposedly 60% of the 'headline' speed for the plan (or tier), although many people experience less than that, deepening on where they are located.

Well the dust has settled on the NBN switchover and the NBN people pulled the plug on the old ADSL at 8am by which time I had the studio feed running via the mobile network so we had no breaks in transmission apart from the couple of short breaks as I swapped XLR leads over.

9am the ISP texted that NBN had been activated and time to plug in the new modem, let it fire up and stabilise on the NBN.

The VOIP phone worked immediately but absolutely NO Comms for the Codecs...bugger!!!! what settings had we missed I wondered.

Went through them all and everything seemed OK apart from the obvious differences in the way different router makers set things out and label. On the old router the maker had differing tables for UDP & TCP modes and the 2 paths into the Codec were labelled Both Modes in the old router but in the new one you had a choice of UDP or TCP OR UDP/TCP which we had initially selected as being the translation for BOTH modes.
Nothing would work for the 2 studio links using UDP/TCP so I made one UDP and the other TCP and away it went with the Codec coming up almost immediately.
So could revert to normal audio path late on the Friday afternoon..part one sorted.

Now to part two...the Internet Streaming. The Codec for that was NOT being connected by the new router even though it was plugged in
and its presence was recognised but simply NOT connecting. Wrong IP Address was the issue as when the Codec is first connected to a router it takes an IP Address and stores it so this one still had the old router IP in its brain and no amount of messing about could get it to select a new applicable IP Address.
I thought I had ALL the applicable settings listed from that Codec and as the only way to force it to get a new IP Address from the router was to give it a Reset. Did that and it was then talking to the router and re-installed all the settings I had but nothing would work so going in circles getting nowhere gave up and started to ask around from other groups who use the Barix Codec but 4 days later still NO Internet Stream going out. Seems very few people have had to do what we have just done so we are very much on our own with this one.

There are that many different ways one can configure a Barix Codec it is difficult to work out just which ones apply to our configuration.

NBN migration bahhhhh humbug.

Well after 3 weeks of trying all manner of differing settings on the Internet streamer and being often locked out of it when re-configuring remotely and I did something it did not like so locked up which meant a trip to the transmitter site to re-boot the thing we have finally got the streaming back up and running.

A local guru on the streaming box (Barix) returned from an overseas trip and we enlisted him to hopefully shed some light on what the hell we were doing wrong.

He was as equally puzzled as I had been over the past few weeks and we tried all manner re-configuring the thing but it simply would not connect with the streaming server in USA yet if we logged into it via the router we could hear the audio going out.

Had to be something screwy with the password settings and the server help desk suggested a couple of things which we tried but no luck.

The Password section is bit clunky in that you can insert a password of up to 24 characters and NO more and to ERASE the password you are instructed to type in any 25 characters and press enter.
No amount of 25 character typing would work until we tried simply 25 spaces and BINGO it then showed NO Password Set so a very careful insertion of the Password was done which then showed Password Set and the swine of a thing was then working.

Only took us almost 5 hours to work that out...most frustrating exercise I have ever been involved with.

Nice now to have a Upload speed of 23Mbps and a Download speed of 55Mbps. The improvement Upload speed has made the streaming more stable so we have that to thank NBN Co for.

Lindsay

until we tried simply 25 spaces and BINGO it then showed NO Password Set

Documentation fail.

From the Barix website: "Thank you for being part of our mission to make audio transmission simpler ..." I'd be writing to them about that.