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After 9 weeks the 3rd technician is visiting my house to check my internet connection. After dropping speeds to under 2mb and about 15 calls in the last 9 weeks tonight my internet shows speeds of 7 mb again. Tomorrow they will check the line again. My bills are on hold. My internet gets disconnected up to 70 times a day. About 15 hours contacting Telstra and still no results.

We paid $800 in 4 weeks..
How is that possible Telstra.
With a mobile fone..
Wifi slow as eff..why?charge us $

My current situation with Telstra is quite different to the norm. My current outdoor connection line is weather damaged. Telstra have been over multiple times to repair the line, they have not been able to. The technicians have said that the line is beyond repair and needs to be replaced. Telstra have said that there are no spots left in the connection box to add in a new line. So, what they need to do is build a new line, they are unwilling to do so. This has been on going since November 2016. Our current connection barely works and is incredibly slow, as well as constantly cutting out. At the moment Telstra have not been able to advise how or when they will rectify the situation.

We arrived in Brisbane a month ago and just wanted others who are arriving to know that we had an absolutely terrible experience with trying to get connected to broadband with Telstra, we opted for them as they are the biggest company, and I needed connecting to broadband quickly for work.

However, they have consistently lied about when we would be connected; receive our router and when our Foxtel would be connected. Every single person we have spoken to has pretty much contradicted everyone else we spoke to and we were no where being connected after almost 4 weeks when we were told we would be connected within 48 hrs! The pathetic excuses and damn right lies and contradictions were incredible, which like them I told them I had recorded as proof.

They made my awful experience with BT look good! We have cancelled and cant even get that right! My initial thought was gross incompetence, however I believed they lied about cancelling us, as we have just received an email saying we have just joined a new entertainment package when in fact we have just cancelled one!

I think it is a vain attempt to keep us on or charge us! We shared this with colleagues at work and it seems Telstra are renowned for this! They said it would likely be the worst experience we would have with a company in Australia!!

We tried Optus and we were told our line is RDSL which apparently means that Telstra owns the line and that they have to pay Telstra to use the line! and this meant it would cost us an extra $40 a month on top of their standard product! So we searched the net and came across Nextalk, they only use an Oz based call centre which after our experiences with Telstra was most welcome! I have to say from the minute we spoke to them it was night and day with the service we got from Telstra, they answered all our questions before we asked them as if they knew what we would ask!

I was skeptical about the promises they made, however they delivered everyone of them! It was truly amazing, they told us when we got connected, within 3 days! and we did it in 2! they gave us an approximation of when the modem would arrive (3-5 days from order) and it did arrive on day 3, and with tracking notification via text.

We bought their modem to avoid any potential aggro which was similar priced to shop bought ones but with theirs they can dial in to if you have any probs. It was plug and play and indeed it was, when it worked I kissed the modem today!!

Nextalk don't do Foxtel but I've noticed most of the programmes we like Blindspot, Hawaii 5'0 and madam secretary (Sky programmes) are available for free on the main channels, we've seen an advert for a Fetch box which adds extra channels so will look into that.

Also for some reason, Nextalk don't need to pay the premium Optus has to! So as we are now connected to the internet I just wanted folks to know about our experiences!!

Telstra have provided a decent service in regards to reliability and speed, however they are very expensive and Technical Support is next to nil. When I first setup the service it was fine but about 3 months in the provided router just stopped working with the Telstra service. This problem took over a month to resolve and left me with no internet for this time. IN the end they just sent me a new router. They also lock down their service so you can change DNS or use VPN services. I will be moving away from Telstra once my current plan is up for renewal.

Signed up to telstra two years ago. Havent had any connection issues and generally run at an average of 10mbs. Never drops out even in storms. Living rural we chose telstra as theyve been known to be more reliable in our area in terms of outages. Our service also copes quite well with online gaming and movie streaming simultaneously.

Not long after signing up we got a free extra 300mb per month which we were happy with. Although their service team did somehow restart our contract only a year in when I changed our mobile plans, when i notified them they never got around to verifying I didnt authorise it but one of their staff was extremely helpful and sorted it out on the 4th phonecall over three weeks to them about it.

Constantly having issues with Telstra out in the Hawkesbury region, seriously considering a satelite internet instead. They are great in terms of available services but have made the decision to scale back in our certain area, meaning much slower internet.

I would recommend for those moving to rural areas have a talk with their neighbours about the best option prior to making a purchasing decision on a particular Service Provider.

Have been in suburban areas with Telstra before this for roughly 10 years and never had a difficulty with service or connection speeds. Advice? Do your research in rural areas when selecting internet plans.

Telstra took my order for ADSL, told me it could happen, and then when I moved, I was told there were no available ports in my exchange, and I would have to wait. How long? Until someone gave up a port. Could be two weeks, could be two years! Unbelievable.

We have been with Telstra for over 10 years and in the last 3 years the service has become woeful, based on our location from the main exchange we have been told we should have speeds of around 4.5mbps on ADSL2 +. However our speeds are generally range from .10 to 3.5mbps.

At first telstra said it was our fault so we had the entire inside line replaced. We then still had issues so the line from the house to the node was replaced, the node itself had work down as inside was corroded and still the issues and slow speeds occur, it seems that in our area people generally can not get reliable speeds and we had to cancel our streaming service because we were unable to watch it successfully.

Lately now we have been having to make sure we turn off our data on our mobiles as we have experienced excess data charges as the signal is so por when our mobiles are meant to connect to home wifi they just can't. So they run off mobile data instead.

Been a house of four and having two boys how love to play game online it does not matter what the time is the speed has the game laging and kicking them off the server.

The speed is especially slow at peak downs when people are home from school and work as there is to much congestion on the lines.

Our exchange has very limited ports and with an increase in people moving into our area its just getting worse and worse. All i can say is bring on the NBN and a choice to actually get a reliable and efficient provider. We are very limited with what we can we have looked at switching perviously but there is no one else that we can switch to as they have no ports available to move us to.

When dealing with Telstra on the phone, they ask all the usual questions and try to blame the home but we have had five techs come out and test and replace everything and still poor quality issues.

Very happy with the speed & reliabilty of the service. I have noticed many other smaller companies now offering cheaper options with NBN which I am considering moving to. I have only had one technical issue out of the entire 7 years of having the service. I wasn't overly impressed with the technical support due to the lengthy time on call waiting and the staff member not listening to me when I was trying to convey the issue. There was a little bit of a language barrier which seemed to infuse the situation.