At last – my ADSL is connected again – much rejoicing, I can assure you. So much for hoping that ADSL would be there when my phone was reconnected – nope :(
Apparently Telstra had, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the disconnection was permanent and dropped the ADSL flags from the service. This is thanks to the fact that they provide the “last mile” connection (from exchange to venue) for all ADSL across Australia, regardless of who’s routing things once it gets to the DSLAM in the exchange. Word is that this is going to change soon – one can only hope…
Anyhow, I’m back again and it’s a good thing too – any longer without highspeed at home and I would have gone spare. For a while there I was using a 33k “emergency” connection we use to check the c2o server over at RUCC if our main links are down. Painfull, but it stopped me from having to go through too nasty a withdrawl stage :)