Aussies strap in: Telstra offers another 'free data' Sunday after its second outage in a month (Updated)

[Dabombinable]

This is getting beyond a joke, its bad enough that a lot of areas have no options except wireless internet or dialup-which is more reliable by far than even ADSL.

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Australia’s biggest mobile network went down last night for the second time in two months.

According to the telco, a problem triggered a significant number of customers to be disconnected from the network, and attempting to reconnect them caused congestion.

The connection problem started overseas, impacting international roaming customers, which Telstra says then had a flow-on effect domestically.

CEO Andrew Penn addressed the media this morning and said that, like the first outage, the disruption was a result of human error.

“I take accountability…One outage is not good enough. Two is not acceptable,” he said.

“I know today how much you rely on the network.

“I’m sincerely sorry to all of our customers.”

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/telstra-has-announced-another-free-data-day-after-its-second-outage-in-a-month-2016-3

 

I honestly don't know what has been going on with Telstra lately, but I've always expected the wireless network to be far more reliable than the fixed line network as I have personally seen the sate of Telstra's network while replacing pathways for the council. All I can say is put your modem/router in an area where you get good reception, and prepare to download like mad while you can.

 

 

Update

Apparently the free data day will be on the 3rd of April.

[Guest]

The cost to businesses when this happens is huge - the majority of EFTPOS machines these days are 4G based mobile devices which suddently don't work..

[natalieisabutt]

The gal on the other end on my call with Telstra's tech support was pretty cool when this happened B)
But damn, Telstra needs to get its shit together

[JohnnyCorporalTech]

Free data?

yes! 

time to watch heaps of YouTube, while waiting for the NBN.

[TrigrH]

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During last month’s free data Sunday Australians downloaded the equivalent of one copy of Kanye West’s new album each — that’s 1,841 terabytes of data in 24 hours.

inb4 the news makes more crappy examples like this

[Dabombinable]

22 minutes ago, Windspeed36 said:

The cost to businesses when this happens is huge - the majority of EFTPOS machines these days are 4G based mobile devices which suddently don't work..

Its the same for teachers-they need the Internet for work, but as my Mum is finding, its almost impossible to do stuff at home when the Internet drops out, for example submitting student results.

 

On another note, having to constantly restart my new pre-paid 4GX box to have the connection stay above 2G speeds.

[Ace0100]

Extra por.....I mean more youtube videos to watch

[Droidbot]

Last time this happened I downloaded 250GB of steam games using the awesome 4GX network in my area

[Derranged]

Finally I'll be able to update star citizen without making my internet useless for 3 days.

[TechGod]

I'm glad NZ isn't like Aussie. 

[Qwertious]

Our eftpos machine is on the Telstra network but luckily its primary run through the adsl Internet 

[Big-G]

*Dons the digital strap-on of Free Data Day*

Prepare yourself Telstra... I'm going in DRY!!!

[SubTract]

Yeah well if they throttle it like they did last time It won't be any use to me this time either.

Also It only seemed to affect 4G when it went down.

My Nexus 5 jumped straight down to HSPA and worked fine. Albeit slower than usual but still slower.
All the iPhone users in my workplace had no connection at all. Not sure as to why this would occur but my guess is it has something do with how iOS handles changing from HSPA to LTE.

[Dabombinable]

40 minutes ago, SubTract said:

Yeah well if they throttle it like they did last time It won't be any use to me this time either.

Also It only seemed to affect 4G when it went down.

My Nexus 5 jumped straight down to HSPA and worked fine. Albeit slower than usual but still slower.
All the iPhone users in my workplace had no connection at all. Not sure as to why this would occur but my guess is it has something do with how iOS handles changing from HSPA to LTE.

I had to resort to 2GG (I can either get 2G full reception, or 4G 0-2 bars, no 3G). And dialup is better than the crap that is 2G. And last time I had 3G at my Mum's place running at 1.5MB/sec, a lot faster than my ADSL2. And that's in an Internet black spot.

[Ace0100]

On 18/3/2016 at 2:11 PM, TechGod said:

I'm glad NZ isn't like Aussie. 

welp at least our prices on pc parts are not thru the roof

[TechGod]

5 hours ago, Ace0100 said:

welp at least our prices on pc parts are not thru the roof

At least we have stable and fast internet. That's far more important than computer part costs. 

[Ace0100]

5 minutes ago, TechGod said:

At least we have stable and fast internet. That's far more important than computer part costs. 

We do have fast stable internet well at least i do. but to use the internet you will need a computer

[TechGod]

8 minutes ago, Ace0100 said:

We do have fast stable internet well at least i do. but to use the internet you will need a computer

Yeah and there are plenty of decent computers you can build with the cost of our parts. 

[Ace0100]

Just now, TechGod said:

Yeah and there are plenty of decent computers you can build with the cost of our parts. 

i have a friend in NZ said that the 680 at the time was around 1k this was before the 900 series came out not sure what they are now but for a 680 that's pricey asf

[TechGod]

Just now, Ace0100 said:

i have a friend in NZ said that the 680 at the time was around 1k this was before the 900 series came out not sure what they are now but for a 680 that's pricey asf

A TI or a Fury X is 1K. The 970 and 390(x?) average around 500-600

[Ace0100]

1 minute ago, TechGod said:

A TI or a Fury X is 1K. The 970 and 390(x?) average around 500-600

Ti is $1k fury is $850 and fury X $1k 970 $470 390x $600 

[TechGod]

Just now, Ace0100 said:

Ti is $1k fury is $850 and fury X $1k 970 $470 390x $600 

I'm making a build. Tell me if you think the pricing is OK for it. 

[TechGod]

2 minutes ago, Ace0100 said:

Ti is $1k fury is $850 and fury X $1k 970 $470 390x $600 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($335.00 @ PC Force) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i 57.5 CFM CPU Cooler  ($79.95 @ Computer Lounge) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170-HD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($193.03 @ PC Force) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($157.00 @ Paradigm PCs) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($167.00 @ 1stWave Technologies) 
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 380X 4GB Video Card  ($428.00 @ Paradigm PCs) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($170.00 @ Paradigm PCs) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($164.00 @ 1stWave Technologies) 
Total: $1693.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-21 16:26 NZDT+1300

[Ace0100]

1 minute ago, TechGod said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($335.00 @ PC Force) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i 57.5 CFM CPU Cooler  ($79.95 @ Computer Lounge) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170-HD3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($193.03 @ PC Force) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($157.00 @ Paradigm PCs) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($167.00 @ 1stWave Technologies) 
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 380X 4GB Video Card  ($428.00 @ Paradigm PCs) 
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($170.00 @ Paradigm PCs) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($164.00 @ 1stWave Technologies) 
Total: $1693.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-21 16:26 NZDT+1300

pretty good but AU dollars

 

http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/7qZHYJ

[PooPipeBoy]

The internet speed isn't much different if it's working or not, because this is a random Speedtest result I got just now.

We may as well all be using fuckin' dialup.