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Yeah. So It’s been a while. I don’t really have a lot to write about and due to the fact that I’m now back at TAFE there is a lot more demand for me to do work more often rather than slacking off and writing on this blog.

I recently purchased the BBC documentary “Planet Earth” on Blu-Ray from Amazon and got that yesterday, It has stunning graphics with its (near) full HD. Haven’t really had time to watch it yet but I’ve skimmed.

I also got a Central Splitter installed in the insane hope that it might vaguely increase my ADSL speed. Of course the guy who installed it just put it on the second pair instead of laying new cable so nothing good came of it. I’m still syncing at 4300 – 5100 (KB). So there’s another waste of a perfectly good $200.

What I will say on that is it does rule out future issues related to Telstra. If they think its a fault in the splitter or that my lines aren’t properly being filtered then they are indeed wrong!

A word of advice: Simon Hackett recently released a guide on how to increase your ADSL(1/2) speed on the Internode blog. One of these methods include what I did above. Read that section of his post VERY well – We installed a central splitter because we had more than 2 phones and bad line noise (which is now gone). Don’t rush out and get a central splitter installed if you only have 1 phone/router installed!

(Though I’ve known about this for a while) The ADSL1 limit in the line profile settings (either router side or dslam side) works perfectly provided your sync is below 5000. If you are getting anything from 3000-5000 KB sync switch your line profile to ADSL 1 (or use your router) and you could go from that to 4000 – 8000 KB.

Side Note: I just fixed all the old links to cdn. and aidan. so videos and links should work. Except those that were destroyed in the fire of 2008 (ahh rm -rf).

Thats all for now anyway. I may actually post something interesting later