Well after almost 6 yrs of suffering the slow speeds of 56k internet, ive just finished ordering bigpond unlimited cable. Its so good to be knowing that ill be ridding the slowness of dial-up and joining the broadband crew.

Although i have no complaints about the service of my 56k isp's (iprimus rocks) its just so good to know that i wont have to put up with connecting and all that crap. Hello to sifnificantly cheaper phone bills. Hehe, and free install rocks as well :D

bigpond unlimited cable**********

yay4u

/*wipes away tear of joy

i have to flog my bpa unlimited connection before it gets capped at around the 20-25 gig mark

and i'm talking much much illicit naughty files, anyone who would use more than this a month deserves to be shot (more)

i dont have my "legit" xp cd with me anymore, is the technician gunna crack a s***ty?

welcome to 5 years ago.

you're going to jail warez boy.

hey thats a good point

i wasn't asked for my cd when i got my cable on...

wtf?

Edit:
Of course I know cable doesn't go through the phone lines. By association I assume faster internet speeds go with ADSL (which does go through phone lines). Also I wanted to cast doubt on his attempts to get off dialup and since transmission loss is why I'm stuck on dialup that's why I said what I said.

Yes I feel like a noob and I will have to learn to read things more carefully to aviod this sort of thing in the future.

Thanks for making me feel like a noob Khel. It made my day.

last edited by Triamks at 23:08:36 29/Dec/04

they used to :) (haha @ supergreen)

Lets just hope your phone line passes the tests.

Cable doesn't go down the phone lines. How noob do you feel right now.

its like my 3rd port or watever you want to call it in the house, seeing as we have 2 foxtel outlets in our house, one more and i woulda been stung $330 for an amplifier, which woulda sucked seeing as telstra are offering free install at the moment and thats pretty much the only reason why im getting cable ....

What gives Telstra the right/need to check your ownership of windows, exactly?

I'd understand if it was windows 95 and the CD was neccessary to install drivers/components...

Edit: Congratulations burgz on putting off installing cable when I've been fighting/waiting for broadband of any respectable kind for years.

Mad props.

last edited by Hashy at 22:29:29 29/Dec/04

Just tell them you're running Lunix, they look so similar nobody will know the difference.

Install an alternate shell like litestep and follow the above steps.

also whats the wait on install? a week or two??

I thought u were going to say "The Rock has come back to Seatle" :P

actually i was running litestep at the time of my cable install, and i think i had to do everything for the guy

that might explain lack of asking for a cd?

hehe

He probably just didn't want to touch your keyboard.

they don't ask for a cd at all, I even had my legit, shiny, holographic cd all ready and waiting. I think that comment is just something that was around back in windows 98 days, and they just haven't gotten rid of it yet. It also might be in case you don't have something installed that they need. I'm not sure what happens if you have no NIC installed and then you install one, does windows ask for it's cd? I've never installed xp without a NIC already in the machine.

Anyway, if you have naughty stuff, or private stuff in your startmenu, you may want to hide it as the tech who installed mine went through the start menu to get to notepad & write some numbers down to email into HQ (download speeds and modem serial number if I remember correctly). No idea why he attatched them in a text file rather than just putting them in the email but that's what he did.

i get my phone line activated for ADSL today... just gotta wait for the email, every min waiting feels like an hour :(

Probably best to use that time to pray for your mortal soul, considering how much porn you'll be getting once you get that email.

last edited by nF at 14:32:57 30/Dec/04

nf, nothing i could say would be worst than Location: Wynnum, Queensland

they don't ask for a cd at all

That's why the technician walked away from installing Imperials (who posts here) cable due to a lack of a legit windows xp cd?

i'd say the likely explanation for that is that this particular technichian was a f*****.

as i mentioned earlier;

they wouldnt install supergreens adsl either coz he couldnt produce his legit xp cd (i think he left it in his other pants)

Just tell them you're running Lunix, they look so similar nobody will know the difference.

i had a distro of linux on my server when i had cable - and the optus guy came out to fix the line and was like 'okay, i need to test it with the pc now' and im like 'go ahead' and hes sitting there clicking random icons ons the desktop trying to work out what to do

install is ont he 11th between 7-12 ...

so prolly having a lan that weekend!! also, needa get a cd by then, who gots one they wanna lend me for a fee>? hehehe

dude, you'll prolly try and sell the windows cd if we give you one.

lame ^

Why don't you c***s f*** up or help him, he wasn't only asking for tips on where to go, he also wanted to know if anyone plays aswell. Oh and spook you old c*** the yellow pages doesn't say which store has the better service and knowledge so why don't you get off qgl and get back to your mid life crisis.

rofl spoon, bit of a hypocrit ay?

do you purposely search out anything I have posted to biteback?? you bumped a thread of my which wasn't even on the mainpage so you could be a lamec***.

Btw I don't mind kaygen, where as you're a total s*** for brains, go play in traffic or something dude.

err i didnt bump anything, i was reading through his thread because i about to tell him about a billiards shop at nundah you deads*** until i came across the crap you spat out ...

whos the s*** for brains now?

You bumped my thread the other day idiot, about the crashing I was having, after humiliating you when you said some s*** about hl2 not running, you obviously searched for my name and decided to bump my thread up with a lame excuse for a insult.

Now run along, it's past your bed time and mummy has some warm milkies ready for you.

so whats the matter, you f*** up my thread and i can't do the same to you? it was on the first page, its not as sif i had to search hard for it.

you are such a hypocrit, but seriously - burga86 @ hotmail.com is my msn, talk to me there spoon - sif argue on a forum

also humiliating? yeah, a drunken tard making unfunny jokes, geez i was sure humiliated alright ... what are you, like 5?


last edited by Burgz at 00:32:27 31/Dec/04

It wasn't on the first page ok, because I remember checking it and it was on the 2nd. Oh and it didn't really f*** up my thread, nor did I f*** yours up, have a tissue and write a poem about it I don't give a f***.

hmm well, what are you viewing the forum on? how many threads per page? im on 30

im not crying, i just fail to see how you can comprehend doing things to me, and yet when i do them to you and you bitch and moan, you deny being a hypocrit ...

also im so over aruging on forums, would a mod kindly delete any matter non-relevant to the topic, thank-you very much

I'm also on 30, plus I dont care if I'm a hypocrit I just say what I feel at the time , I don't really care how it affects people at the present or how it comes back at me.

:cry:

last edited by spoon at 00:39:51 31/Dec/04

when i got my cable installed they didnt ask for my xp disk.

its ok spoon, no hard feelings eh? i got over it ....

danjor, optus or telstra? and how long ago .... cheers

I didn't need my cd either for optarse, but I had some foreign dude who was like "ey mang you resolution to good for you monitor mang *sets to 640x480*"

It should only be need for w95 and w98

who ever said there were no girls on the internet?

Back when i got Big pond ADSL i wasnt asked for the disk,i did give the guy a few copies of some games i had lying around though...made him happy.Im with Internode ADSL now,quite happy with them,and no set up required.

when i got optus in 2000 i didnt need the disc either, the guy even saiid 'ye cable is good, i download movies with it' <- so he wouldnt of cared if i had a pirated disc anyway Plus you can always bring up the argument 'my original got f***ed, LUCKY i made a backup'

otherwise you could say 'i dont want to risk damaging my original so i keep it packed away' <- but then they could ask to see it unlike with saying the original f***ed up

who are they to say that you are lieing?


and i think burgz and spoon are in love.. coz they bitch like a married couple ;p

last edited by Jerry at 13:01:55 31/Dec/04

i just wish they would disappear from this thread and get a room.

Why on earth do you need a technician to set up Telstra ADSL?

im optus and we have had it for a while now although the other day we had a tech come and give us new cables + modem and we didnt get asked for a cd when he installed all the new gear.

when the guy hooked the modem into the back of the computer he went out to do somes***, and i got it going straight away, he came back to set it up and i said it was done, and he's like you sure and showed him it working. and he left

done and done.

this was optus