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Exciting! Tomorrow is hopefully the day – iiNet Naked DSL should be switched on at [insert funky house name that we haven't come up with yet here].

They “connected” the phone line about a week ago – the line has a dial tone, but when I rang to ask about that, they said it’s kind of a pseudo connection, cos you can’t make calls on it. It just means it’s connected at the exchange. I’m glad I rang, cos they told me I didn’t actually have to be home tomorrow arvo.

And then tomorrow is the switch-on day. They say they’ll email me once it’s active… but I’ll have my fingers crossed that it’s the same day. I decided to go with naked DSL (basically ADSL without a working landline number) cos we’ll only be here for 6 months [likely], and I don’t think we really need a landline anyway, but not for just 6 months. So I’ll get Debbie on a better mobile plan, and we’ll be happy with just mobiles :)

I would love to better understand naked DSL – I am really beginning to understand ADSL properly, and also understanding how Telstra’s SHDSL works (which is super cool), and then understanding how you can put all those different access types in together to make an IP network that sits off the internet – but because Telstra doesn’t sell naked DSL, that’s not something I’ve really learnt about.

Maybe I’ll do some Wikipedia research…

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