Apologies to Telstra

A nice young man from Telstra showed up this morning, after calling in advance. He spent almost three hours fixing a number of problems, and now our phoneline is working as well as ever, and our net connection is back to the usual around 40 kbps speed. However, there are still problems with some of the wires, so we could go again at any time (as it is a bigger job to fix them, and we're not sure when it'll happen).

Telstra still suck for screwing up cabling in our area, though that is an entirely different rant ;)