{"id":845,"date":"2010-11-30T18:17:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T08:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=845"},"modified":"2010-11-30T18:17:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T08:17:36","slug":"upgrading-the-local-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/upgrading-the-local-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading the local exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telstrawholesale.com\/products\/data\/adsl-reports-plans.htm\">Telstra Wholesale<\/a> page lists the telephone exchanges to receive upgrades. At Mt Nebo (MNBO) we&#8217;re about to get a software upgrade. Apparently it won&#8217;t be bringing ADSL2+, but it&#8217;s going to remove the default shaping (slowing down) that 8Mbps plan users (like me) have been subject to. The what now?<\/p>\n<p>Even though I have been paying quite a bit extra for an &#8220;up to 8Mbit&#8221; plan that&#8217;s usually around 2.5Mbit, it&#8217;s been the crappy shaping setup at the exchange that&#8217;s been slowing me down, not my line, proximity to exchange, or anything else.<\/p>\n<p>First reaction? How in hell can they get away with selling (or on-selling) a service they know will be crippled? Advertising up to 8Mbit when this exchange hasn&#8217;t been offering any more than 2.5Mbit to anyone is just wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Second reaction? So, my internet could get 3x faster next week? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0Telstra Wholesale page lists the telephone exchanges to receive upgrades. At Mt Nebo (MNBO) we&#8217;re about to get a software upgrade. Apparently it won&#8217;t be bringing ADSL2+, but it&#8217;s going to remove the default shaping (slowing down) that 8Mbps plan users (like me) have been subject to. The what now? Even though I have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/upgrading-the-local-exchange\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Upgrading the local exchange<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}