@Old_IT_geek @cheryanne @MsDropbear42 @captainb Well, seems this grumpy little fangball now has one less thing about which to moan. Though ofc madmonk & trumble remain arseholes til their last breaths for what they did to the NBN [& so much else too, obvs], & though it's been too stupid-many years to reach this point, finally there is reason to allow oneself a little grin...

For reference, my years-old now-superseded #fraudband #FttN achieved a best of ~39 / 7 Mbps.

I sincerely wish & hope that all remaining victims of those ghastly Liebs & Nuts can similarly gain this QoL lift, absobloodylutely ASAP! 🤞 🤞 🤞

#NBN #FttP

Recently "refreshed" an old spinning-rust tower pc of winXP/7 vintage, with a purge then installation of #Fedora #KDE    . This pooter has no #BlueTooth nor #WiFi inside, & i didn't feel motivated enough to investigate specs of card/s i'd need to buy & install, so i chickened out & just bought a cheap USB WiFi dongle. After the #KFedora40 install & tweaking, i wanted to bung both #Floorp  & #ZenBrowser browsers on it.

This project is only limping along.

• the USB dongle, supposedly good for 150 Mbps [which is >>> my available #NBN #Fraudband #FttN 37 Mbps on a good day], is giving me less than 1 Mbps. Have not yet tested to ascertain if it's the dongle's fault, or instead a WiFi blackspot in my house where i've set this tower. Sigh.
• neither Floorp nor ZenBrowser will launch, regardless of me placing the extracted tarball files with the executable in /opt/, or in my Downloads directory, or in my user's ~/bin, each of which are in my $PATH. I know it's not bad files, coz they work fine when tested in VMs in my main pooter. I also know it's not #SELinux [which i hate with a passion] 's fault, coz i tested with it fully disabled too, but still no joy. Grrrr.

Sassen frassen rassen.

Our area made the national current affairs, although not for great reasons.

https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/is-the-rush-to-roll-out-the-nbn-leaving-people/11503392

A story on the woeful state of the National Broadband Network in the Samford Valley region.

#fraudband #auspol