telstra sucks...

...and i'd rather be on a beach with an acoustic guitar. but back to telstra for just a moment:

i have now got the internet @ home, and let me tell you my experience with my new ISP:

-terrible service-
after being sold on the "30 minute rapid transfer" deal, i waited for a day before i let concern for my new ISP over boil. i contacted Telstra and was -instead- promised that i would be waiting through a downtime of four to five working days. not even eighteen days later, yes - 18 DAYS L8ER - had i got the net. no no. by then i (potentially) failed on blogging my music technology projects. now i have the net again twenty-two days later. that's right, some 34, 560 minutes!!! as compared with the original deal of 30. excuse my math, but that is 1, 152 times longer. during this i fraught with many IT helpers @ telstra, and all they could provide were lies with what they were going to do for me. lies, eg-

T: tomorrow your modem will arrive in the mail.

J: ok
receives modem a week later

what kind service is that? how is the service at telstra??? terrible! terrible service.

-worst website ever-
what can i say about bigpond dot com? don't go there unless you crave frustration. the search bar *does not work*. the adds are 100% unblockable, 100% unavoidable and 100% liberal propaganda. the web design is some of THE worst that i have ever scene. ever.

-what age we live in-
after all this trail & tribulation, all this stress (right when i didn't need it) my broadband finally gets connected on monday... so you ask, how is it? what are the speeds like?
average and worse. really nothing special, and i have had unexpected cut-off times. although i think im ready for anything inconvenient from telstra right now.

what an age we live in... i just wish i were apart of it!


end of rant, i just needed to make the time to let you all know:

Telstra,
Thankyou for nothing.