Both fire pumps just tested and still running, despite 6 months of neglect! You have to test the buggers! One needed a few pulls, the other needed its carbie drained. Now is the the time to test, not later!
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John Ross
I’m not here to advertise Telstra, but there are current mobile 4G offerings that in my opinion beat NBN satellite, depending, of course, on your current mobile phone coverage at home. If you have good mobile coverage at home, you should consider this. I am seriously considering abandoning my landline service with ADSL internet. Instead, I will use my mobile phone (iPhone) to provide a ’hotspot’ to a router configured as a wireless repeater. So when the ’Personal Hotspot’ on the phone is activated, it automatically connects to the router, which provides internet access to anything else connected to the router by wifi or ethernet cable, including computers and smart TVs.
To test the viability for your own location, using a mobile phone, I suggest you download the Ookla Speedtest App. If you have mobile data on your mobile plan, TURN OFF Wifi and check the performance you are getting from your mobile phone connection. Ookla will test whatever connection you are currently connected to: https://www.speedtest.net/
ADSL here, 5km from exchange:
Ping 26ms
Download 4.75 Mbps
Upload 0.86 Mbps
Telstra 4G mobile, same location:
Ping 43ms
Download 64.3Mbps
Upload 16.6Mbps
BUT, 4G performance is highly variable. Sometimes it can be slower than ADSL. Of course, 4G performance may deteriorate as more people take it up. I never said it was easy! Turn off your usual internet access and connect to a hotspot from your friend’s mobile phone at your place and see how it goes.
Optus have some good plans too, but it depends on your coverage. If you have a strong Optus signal on your mobile, fine.
BTW, don’t hold your breath for 5G around here – it’s not gonna happen!
I have updated the article on the origin of the name ’Jim Crow’ in the light of more recent information. Please read the updated article:
https://www.yandoit.net/2012/07/13/273/
I am doing some experimenting at present. I have 4G mobile data from both Telstra and Optus. I also have ADSL from Telstra. The only NBN option at my place in Mystic Drive is Satellite.
To understand NBN, you need to understand the technology that is available to you at your address. 4G is not ‘NBN’. 4G is on the mobile phone network. There are a couple of plans from Optus and Telstra that offer a good amount of data for a reasonable price. But one wonders how the quality of the service may change as the take-up of 4G for internet increases.
At present I am seriously thinking of abandoning my landline and ADSL, currently costing me $80/month, and just having the biggest mobile service with data (about 90GB) I can get. Households with lots of streaming teenagers should be careful – this may not be enough!
4G from both Telstra and Optus is highly variable in terms of speed, but is generally better than ADSL.
Current results (7pm April 26) on 4G:
Optus: PING 38mS, DOWNLOAD 12.05Mbps, UPLOAD 1.38 Mbps
Telstra: PING 36 mS, DOWNLOAD 34.58 Mbps, UPLOAD 13.38 Mbps
Telstra ADSL is typically about 4.5Mbps download and 0.8Mbps upload at my location, admittedly about 5km from the exchange.
Over Yandoit
Not local history, but I thought I should share it as it gives more than a glimpse of shearing in the early days. “Duke” Tritton began shearing, with blades, in 1905. Duke sings his song, written in 1905 (but obviously updated, as it mentions ‘Vanguards’ and ‘Holdens’, originally ‘buggies’ and ‘sulkies’, from transcriptions): ‘Shearing in a Bar’…
Bring your voice, whether bel canto or can belto, to the Yandoit Uniting Church, this Sunday 16 December at 7:30pm.
… with a taste for garlic. Even the honeyeaters are part-Italian around here!
See the seasons the way the First Australians saw them…
http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml
“The Song Keepers”
Join us for a special Reconciliation Week screening of a remarkable new documentary on the trip to Germany by a very special choir. The Song Keepers tells the uplifting story of women from the world’s oldest culture preserving some of the world’s oldest sacred songs.
Sacred Heart College, Kyneton
Friday 1 June 2018, 6:30pm
(gold coin donation)
Hepburn Shire will be celebrating National Reconciliation Week 2018 with a community forum. The theme for National Reconciliation Week this year is ”Don’t Keep History a Mystery: Learn, Share and Grow” to encourage all Australians to learn more about local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures. Our event wil start with a smoking ceremony, followed by an introduction to the evening by the Mayor, John Cottrell. Our keynote speakers, Jida Gulpilil and Paul Haw, will present Dja Dja Wurrung stories and local history followed by a question and answer session. Light supper and tea will be served – bookings essential through eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/national-reconciliation-week-forum-tickets-45849136000?aff=es2
Tue. 29 May 2018, 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Franklinford Hall, Mill St. Franklinford.
There will be the triennial meeting of the Yandoit Park and Recreational Reserve Committee
at the Yandoit Hall at 7.30pm on Wednesday 23rd May.
Main agenda item is to elect the committee for the next three years.
We need more people to be interested in the running of local venues and facilities.
Supper provided.
signed Bill O’Donnell, secretary and treasurer.
interested or for more information ring 0439 398 488
Don’t forget!
For those who missed the Music and Dance event on 7th April, here is the video that was presented on the day.
Yandoit History in Story – Music and Dance from John Ross on Vimeo.
6pm, Saturday April 7th at the Yandoit Hall,
BYO barbecue from 6pm
This unique event will explore the long history of music and dance in our area.
- Multimedia presentation and display
- Panel discussion on the musical history of Yandoit and district
- Demonstration old-time dances
- Dance participation for all to join in
- Live music from Maurie Gervasoni, Greg and Helen O’Leary, Ian White, Peter Sullivan, Natasha Mullings and John Ross.
Now including Archer and Mick Coates!
A MUSICAL EVENING TO CELEBRATE 2 FULL MOONS IN 1 CALENDAR MONTH!
Featuring Featherhead, The Pear Shaped Clappers and more…
Wednesday Jan 31, 7 till whenever…
Heaps of road closures in Melbourne in January…
https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/traffic-and-road-use/summer-transport-disruptions
With the costs of acquiring rights to show films, the restrictions placed on ‘film societies’ which are not permitted to charge per visit and thus must rely on annual membership in order to obtain better rates on screening rights, plus the cost of hall hire, JCFS has had to shut down. We went down the legal track. We probably could have got away with it ‘on the black’, under the radar, but we didn’t want to go that way. You can’t (legally) just buy a DVD in a shop and then show it in public: you have to buy screening rights to do that. It was costing us more than $200 per night to put on a show.
There is a small amount of funds remaining in the JCFS coffers which will be applied to other community projects (including the production costs of our esteemed organ ‘The Chronicle’) according to the rules of the JCFS. Some has already been applied to The Chronicle.
Plenty of lemons. free.
Plenty of Vietnamese mint. To use now or strike cuttings. Recommended for Vitenamese Pho soup or sitr-fries.
Yandoit, call 5476 4126.