What is your internet connection speed? (Poll)

[clontarf_x]

Originally Posted by Deadman

It's actually ADSL2+ which goes up to 24Mbps but they have capped it to 12Mbps max while they test stability (but are rumoured to be releasing it soon)

First I've heard of that, and I work for iiNet...

[Steffo]

512/128 ADSL. Bigpond. Unlimited downloads.

[Donut King]

Originally Posted by clontarf_x

First I've heard of that, and I work for iiNet...

well speed up the silverwater exchange migration would ya ;)

[Perana]

Nevarrr!!!11!!

Instead speed up building of DSLAM's in SA :P

[Deadman]

Originally Posted by clontarf_x

First I've heard of that, and I work for iiNet...

Hehe, nice... Well I guess the rumour is false

doesn't bother me anyhow as my speed won't change anyway :yeees:

[jonk]

kbps: 721.6
KB/s: 90.2
Mbps: 0.7046875

I'm 4172 metres from the Brighton exchange.

Can do a 1Mb file in about 12 seconds or so. It does really depend on network demand and the servers on the other end. In the Opera browser download speed taskbar, it can get up to 400 KB/s

[herbs]

dialup for me....... : lovely download speeds of 2 to 3 kb/s.....it's depressing, satellite costs $1500 to install, wireless has a draconian time limit.......damn you telstra out:

[XplosiveR6]

well my connection isnt up on the poll its 128/128kb/s ISDN

[M14A-Mclaren]

Originally Posted by jonk

I'm 4172 metres from the Brighton exchange.

Thats a very specific number, how did you get that?

[Mechan1k]

Originally Posted by 4.9 EF Futura

Corporate internet here, i think the server runs out of melbourne. Recently had the wiring in the office upgraded to a fibre optic line down to the street. Moves along nicely

Same ... I sit on one of the backbone of the Optus network.
hee hee ... if a page takes more than 0.1 of a second to load .. there's a problem.

[clontarf_x]

Just an update to you Internet Junkies out there, seems I was proven wrong by my employer.

As of today, December 15 1300 WST, we have enabled 24000kbps on our DSLAM's. iiNet is the first company in Australia to offer these speeds city wide, as opposed to small pockets like some other ISP's

Soon iiNet is going to have a wholly owned Infrastructure, which means no more customer pricing dictated to us via Telstra.

That means very, very cheap ADSL2+

[Deadman]

Originally Posted by clontarf_x

Just an update to you Internet Junkies out there, seems I was proven wrong by my employer.

As of today, December 15 1300 WST, we have enabled 24000kbps on our DSLAM's. iiNet is the first company in Australia to offer these speeds city wide, as opposed to small pockets like some other ISP's

Soon iiNet is going to have a wholly owned Infrastructure, which means no more customer pricing dictated to us via Telstra.

That means very, very cheap ADSL2+

Told ya ;)

[clontarf_x]

*eats his own foot*

[rob_liss_lms10]

about time wholesale providers stopped using Telstra exchanges/copper network and Telstra install/fault staff to work on non Telstra customers.Instead of wholesale companies collecting money for nothing and riding the pigs back,will finally put money back into the country by means of infrastructure.
or when you say your own dslams,do you mean you will have your own exchanges and own copper network?,or still have your equipment inside Telstra exchanges.

[jonk]

Originally Posted by M14A-Mclaren

Thats a very specific number, how did you get that?

Rang up the help desk with a dispute about how far I was away from the exchange. Any ISP can do it, it's part of the debug prog's they have at their disposal.

After that had to get a guy in who charges $200 an hour, which got billed back to telstra because the fault was with the outside line.

And I dispute the stuff about iinet. Adam was the first in Oz to offer it 24 Mb ADSL 2. Adam spent ten million bucks in Adelaide for it, and the first exchange was North Adelaide AFAIK (aka snobsville)

[Donut King]

Originally Posted by clontarf_x

Just an update to you Internet Junkies out there, seems I was proven wrong by my employer.

As of today, December 15 1300 WST, we have enabled 24000kbps on our DSLAM's. iiNet is the first company in Australia to offer these speeds city wide, as opposed to small pockets like some other ISP's

Soon iiNet is going to have a wholly owned Infrastructure, which means no more customer pricing dictated to us via Telstra.

That means very, very cheap ADSL2+

and even better... my exchange has been given an migration date

[clontarf_x]

Originally Posted by jonk

And I dispute the stuff about iinet. Adam was the first in Oz to offer it 24 Mb ADSL 2. Adam spent ten million bucks in Adelaide for it, and the first exchange was North Adelaide AFAIK (aka snobsville)

I did say city wide, I should really of said Australia wide

And for whom asked, I am not too cluey on the infrastructure side of things, but I do know that we still use Tesltra Exchange space to house the dslams, but I think iiNet are now doing their own cabling :P

[nang3]

im on the 12mb iinet plan which has been just upgraded to 24mb apparently, im reluctant to upgrade again because at the moment out of about 50 bandwidth tests, the fastest i have ever got is about 4000-5000kps - 1/3 of the max on my plan..
most tests come back saying anywhere from 300-1400kps which is pretty crap, even downloading from the iinet FTP i only get 500kbytes a second on average..

surely if you are on a plan that is less than the maximum capacity of the line, there should be no throttling to under your plan speed whatsoever.. someone on 512 should get 512 and only people on unlimited/max speeds should have their speed dependant on the network

[boss-290]

Originally Posted by boss-290

Does anyone have Optus-cable on a 3gig plan? I know that my Dad's boss has it on his home computer and I havn't heard anything about it from Optus.

Its just that I'm paying for unlimited which is 12gig and I only use upto 1-2gig a month.

If anyone can help me, it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Nathan.

Can anybody help me?

[LowEL2XR8]

I got a 2 meg fibre optic/cable hybrid. $37 a month with a 20gig limit.

[brenx]

512 for me. Can't afford any faster :

[12]

Originally Posted by brenx

512 for me. Can't afford any faster :

I would be happy with 512.. ...I think.

Then again, it's just like the 1/4 mile.. you just want to go faster and faster. :


Stupid question time. What is the difference between ADSL, ISDN, SDSL and hDSL?? So many references, I'm confused.

[svo347]

1500 here .

[xurbanx]

1500 here.

[Falcon Freak]

Can't wait to change to ADSL2+ next year. Mega speed!

FF

[svo347]

Seems i have exceeded my 12 gig limit in 8 days and im back to dial up speeds ... Someone help me pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :(

[pertuan]

I'm on the iBurst wireless internet thing. I pay 50 bucks a month for the first 300megs to be at 512k. Then the rest is 64k. This means I get 512k for 1 day. hahahaha

[nang3]

Originally Posted by pertuan

I'm on the iBurst wireless internet thing. I pay 50 bucks a month for the first 300megs to be at 512k. Then the rest is 64k. This means I get 512k for 1 day. hahahaha

daaaamn thats pretty exxy !!! but wireless is wireless !

[Joes_meat]

512/128 with a 25GB download limit. All of which used. :(

[42.57lb]

Seems we are many geeks here!!! Excellent 1500+ (just got an accelerator for my MAC OS X ((software accel)))