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    Default Broadband speeds

    I visited another forum(WoW game site)and got on a thread linking to a BB speed tester though mine seemed a little slow DL@430kbps UL@107kbps... all the people in america who tested absolutely woop my butt the slowest was DL@4140kbps UL@472kbps thats right they're slowest upload is faster than my download speed!:eek:
    Hows this the fastest... DL@28720kbps UL@9793kbps!(I think he must work for the ISP :confused: )
    The worst bit... my connection cost more per month than any of them:mad:
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    We don't have true high speed broadband in Australia.

    One day Tel$tra will be told to extract the digit and fix the damn thing properly.
    If at first you don't succeed, give something else a go. Life is far too short to waste time trying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gumby View Post
    We don't have true high speed broadband in Australia.

    One day Tel$tra will be told to extract the digit and fix the damn thing properly.
    Especially if you're on Telstra ADSL. Limited to 1500kbps

    [ I'm on Bigpond cable and get a download speed of 1,063 Kilobytes/s (8.7 Mbps) but still a poor upload speed of 14.5 Kilobytes/s (118 kbps). Lots of room for improvement there]

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    Don't know what you're all complaining about. I get an average of 3kbps.

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    slow up load is so you can not use VOIP.
    p.t.c

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    That's one thing but I should be able to download much quicker. At my age, time is everything.
    If at first you don't succeed, give something else a go. Life is far too short to waste time trying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gumby View Post
    We don't have true high speed broadband in Australia.

    One day Tel$tra will be told to extract the digit and fix the damn thing properly.
    Quite right.

    The sad thing is that Telstra could enable decent high-speed BB (c 24Mbps in metro areas, and >12Mbps in metro/suburban areas. The 'Bush" might be a bit different though) in a very short time (most of the required kit is already in place) but won't do so because they'd be obliged to make it available in the wholesale market - which they very much don't want to do...

    Of course, this is a HUGE oversimplification of the issues at hand, but nevertheless, everyone suffers from the desperately poor speeds available in the until the issues are resolved.

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    Default You are looking for ADSL 2+

    Actually fast broadband speeds are available in quite a lot of locations around Australia. You just need to look into alternative ISP's. For instance I use Internode <http://on.net>. There are quite a few others that provide adsl 2+.

    You need to be very close to the exchange to get > 20mbit speeds. I am around 4km and am on around 6mbit

    Here is a quick ftp session:
    shaun@gateway:shaun$ ncftp test
    NcFTP 3.1.9 (Mar 24, 2005) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/).
    Connecting to mirror.internode.on.net...
    192.231.203.130 FTP server ready
    Logging in...
    Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply.
    Logged in to mirror.internode.on.net.
    Current remote directory is /pub/test.
    ncftp /pub/test > get 10meg.test
    10meg.test: 10.00 MB 470.08 kB/s

    This computer is on a 802.11b wireless link to my router, which is my main bottle neck here which is probably why the above is only around 4.5mbit. I can get up to 700kB/s (yes Kilo Bytes) on a good day with a decent sync. I can download a typical CD in around 15 minutes on average and know some people who can get them in 5.

    I have no hesitation in highly recommending Internode and have done so on this forum before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gumby View Post
    We don't have true high speed broadband in Australia.

    One day Tel$tra will be told to extract the digit and fix the damn thing properly.
    Here Hear! Well said Brother Gumby.

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    Run a speed test here http://www.ozspeedtest.com/tools_speed.shtml

    These are my results

    Test run on 20/09/2006 @ 9:24 PM
    Mirror: Netbay Internet
    Test type: Cable
    Your connection speed:
    kbps: 16739.83
    KB/s: 2092.48
    Mbps: 16.74

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    Mirror: Internode
    Test type: ADSL

    Your connection speed:

    kbps: 1186.5
    KB/s: 148.31
    Mbps: 1.19

    (four pcs in use during test. Previous tests with same plan on the big 'T' were half this speed)

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    Quote Originally Posted by ptc View Post
    slow up load is so you can not use VOIP.
    Can't see why not..... :confused:

    Skype works over ISDN at 128K with the internet going.
    ISDN can actually support 2 x 64K channels with a voice telephone call on each one at once.
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    Westnet ADSL in Cairns.

    Test run on 20/09/2006 @ 9:38 PM
    Mirror: Optus
    Test type: ADSL
    Your connection speed:
    kbps: 414.12
    KB/s: 51.77
    Mbps: 0.41
    Cliff.
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    Test run on 20/09/2006 @ 9:45 PM

    Mirror: Internode
    Test type: ADSL

    Your connection speed:

    kbps: 2759.19
    KB/s: 344.9
    Mbps: 2.76

    Excuses: slow and long wireless first hop, 2 kids and wife using Internet atm (and she usually saturates the link )

    shaun

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    Bigpond cable in Carine, Perth

    kbps: 4046.98
    KB/s: 505.87
    Mbps: 4.05

    Reasonable but not the advertised 8Mbs.

    Les

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