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« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2005, 01:55:15 AM »
Quote from: Psyched on March 28, 2005, 01:37:25 AM
dude, i dont know where ya been but telstra is being sold, they are looking into selling it and privatising the telco, its what needs to happen to deregulate the stupid cost of bandwidth in australia. hell its stupid the price here. also shaneau whats ur cap eh? telstra dont have an unlimited plans Razz

not to mention that telstra is constantly in trouble with the ACCC and their techies didnt even know what SDSL was when i rang them. i wouldnt be caught dead with their service. i hope it all gets sold. i would love the de-regulation of bandwidht in australia, i say take new zealands approach ;)

Lol, Telstra isn't being sold... Where did you get that source of information? I think Telstra Wholesale will be sold and not owned by Telstra, but that's not even happening yet I don't think.

As for my cap, yes 10 GB, unfortuante, It's only been non Unlimited as of this month and on, but I'm sure new plans will be released.

Now you see, Telstra cannot bring out amazing plans because the wholesale customers will complain that's it's not fair, and if Telstra do decide to bring out better plans they have to lower wholesale prices aswell, otherwise the ACCC will be onto them for unfair trading, Bigpond can provide good plans for it's customers but obviousely will not lower the prices for wholesale customers because it will cost them too much, this is why the two (Telstra and Telstra Wholesale) should be two differant things, not owned by the one company, Telstra.

Now you see what I mean? Smile.

- Shane.
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« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2005, 04:31:35 AM »
that information came from the ministor for education. as for lowering the prices, is bigpond didnt have their own parralell system as for telstra wholesale and bigpond bought their bandwidth for the same price as the other telstra wholesale customers then there is no issue but no, they have to constantly partake in unfair trading. irregardless telstra is dead, ISP"s are putting in their own DSLAMS upto 12mbit, and becoming tier2 (their own international link) so it does not matter, oh btw it wasnt capped this month its been capped for a while, infact the last year, when my friend signed up for cable then.
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« Reply #17 on: March 28, 2005, 04:58:32 AM »
Quote from: Psyched on March 28, 2005, 04:31:35 AM
that information came from the ministor for education. as for lowering the prices, is bigpond didnt have their own parralell system as for telstra wholesale and bigpond bought their bandwidth for the same price as the other telstra wholesale customers then there is no issue but no, they have to constantly partake in unfair trading. irregardless telstra is dead, ISP"s are putting in their own DSLAMS upto 12mbit, and becoming tier2 (their own international link) so it does not matter, oh btw it wasnt capped this month its been capped for a while, infact the last year, when my friend signed up for cable then.

Lol, Hard cap was introduced in NSW, this month, and a few other states the month before, before that you could download over 80 GB and still be uncapped.

Other ISP's are bringing in their own DSLAM's, yes. But are you able to get onto one like you can a Telstra DSLAM? Nope. Telstra has also announced that it will be upgrading it's DSLAM network to support ADSL2 & ADSL2+ technology.

Still as for Telstra being sold, it's not going to happen... Why would they? Smile.

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« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2005, 03:01:42 AM »
actually my isp is due for an upgrade to ADSL2 in the second quarter this year, so ill b among the lucky few i guess. and also telstra have no plans of upgrading their infrastructure at the moment. and what would they cap it at, adsl can go upto 8Mbps but they slowed it to 1.5Mbps, adsl2 can go upto 12Mbps what will they cap it at 4Mbps?? that would seem typical. hold australia back.

moderators please keep this thread open, i just want to say 'i told you so' to shaneau when it hits the media later this year about telstra being sold
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« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2005, 03:18:29 AM »
Quote from: Psyched on March 29, 2005, 03:01:42 AM
actually my isp is due for an upgrade to ADSL2 in the second quarter this year, so ill b among the lucky few i guess. and also telstra have no plans of upgrading their infrastructure at the moment. and what would they cap it at, adsl can go upto 8Mbps but they slowed it to 1.5Mbps, adsl2 can go upto 12Mbps what will they cap it at 4Mbps?? that would seem typical. hold australia back.

moderators please keep this thread open, i just want to say 'i told you so' to shaneau when it hits the media later this year about telstra being sold

Well now, I've just proved you wrong in one thing.. ;).

http://www.telstra.com.au/communications/media/mediareleases_article.cfm?ObjectID=33436

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"By mid 2005, 200 exchanges covering about 500,000 premises will have ADSL2+ capability at a cost of $60 million. We have budgeted a further $150m in financial year 05/06 for the purchase and installation of ADSL2+ technology and coverage will rapidly increase so that by mid-2006 nearly all ADSL-enabled exchanges will have ADSL2+ capability."

There's news for you.

Your source of information isn't very reliable.
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« Reply #20 on: March 29, 2005, 11:11:05 PM »
well this answers this question, what is telstra going to cap ADSL2+ at...

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"The next generation broadband services and product packages that will take advantage of ADSL2+ speeds of up to 12 Megabits per second are in development

once again tel$tra reeping the rewards. let review tel$tra's stupid decisions
ADSL capable of goin 8mbit, capped @ 1.5mbit
ADSL capable of goin 12mbit, capped @ ??mbit
adsl2+ which is capable of going 24mbit capped @ 12mbit

not to mention all the other BS that goes on behind the scenes i am really amused that you are defending telstra get on http://bc.whilpool.net.au in any forum thread besides bigpond and see how telstra constantly screw people over, look at how they shaft the consumers. i cant wait until we get more companies coming in from overseas, its setup so that a company could come in, set itself up, and grab a HUGE market share by simply offering the speeds and technology that is already available. what about BOPL (broadband over power lines) the tests in australia have indicated that it is capable of delivering 50mbit+ reliably, i cant wait to get onto something like that. and it will not happen whilst telstra is at the reins.

as for the source of my information... i think i trust a minister before i would trust telstra, let alone what they put on their website, i might have perhaps trstued them if they were being investegated atleast ever 6 months for bad business ethics. the ACCC says it all.
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« Reply #21 on: June 23, 2005, 05:51:40 AM »
Well, back on the subject... this is my speed from the testmy.net servers...

This is a TPG 1.5 Mbps/ 256 Kbps connection.

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 1271 Kbps about 1.3 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Download Speed is:: 155 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (server2)
Test Time:: Thu Jun 23 2005 19:57:55 GMT+0800
Bottom Line:: 23X faster than 56K 1MB download in 6.61 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 24.85 % faster than the average for host (com.au)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-UDZJT3HL1

::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 213 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 26 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (server2)
Test Time:: Thu Jun 23 2005 19:58:44 GMT+0800
Bottom Line:: 4X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 39.38 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 99.07 % faster than the average for host (com.au)
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« Reply #22 on: October 20, 2005, 02:18:39 AM »
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« Reply #23 on: October 20, 2005, 02:20:16 AM »
Quote from: ShaneAu on March 27, 2005, 11:19:05 PM
haha Telstra gets sold? Unlikly.

I'm with Bigpond Cable. It's actually 1.19 MB/s to local mirrors Smile. Now you tell me in this fourm how many people can get that kind of speed for ~ 45 USD per month.

Like this:

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 31469 Kbps about 4.2 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 3934 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 562X faster than 56K 1MB download in .03 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 46.93 % faster than the average for host (X.127)

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« Reply #24 on: October 20, 2005, 07:56:46 AM »
Quote from: XE on October 20, 2005, 02:20:16 AM
Like this:

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 31469 Kbps about 4.2 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 3934 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 562X faster than 56K 1MB download in .03 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 46.93 % faster than the average for host (X.127)

im  leet : evil1

That is 4.2 Mb/s (MegaBITS), I said I get 1.19 MB/s (MegaBYTES) that is 9.52 Mbps.

Besides your result looks soo tampered with Razz. Where's your validation link?
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« Reply #25 on: October 20, 2005, 08:01:32 AM »
Quote from: Psyched on March 15, 2005, 02:19:05 AM
ok i look @ verizon's FTTP speed and have to find a towel to wipe up the drool and this is why:
(my college)
::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 223 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 27 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Test Time:: Tue Mar 15 18:45:00 UTC+1030 2005
Bottom Line:: 4X faster than 56K 1MB download in 37.93 sec
Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 34.05 % of your hosts average (3.209)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-MGQFOP67R

::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 495 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 60 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Test Time:: Tue Mar 15 18:46:14 UTC+1030 2005
Bottom Line:: 9X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 17.07 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 65 % faster than the average for host (3.209)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-HRP1WKGIX

ok now that dont seem right, my upload is faster than download  Neutral
ill re-do the download oh n this is meant to be a 10mbit burstable link from here
::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 269 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Download Speed is:: 33 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Test Time:: Tue Mar 15 18:47:40 UTC+1030 2005
Bottom Line:: 5X faster than 56K 1MB download in 31.03 sec
Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 48.12 % of your hosts average (3.209)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-H541DVLCS
hmm a little bit better but yea it sucks to be in australia.

when i get home i will show you the results for a 1.5/256k adsl connection through TPG

dam that does suck
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« Reply #26 on: October 25, 2005, 06:05:14 AM »
This is my new 12/1 ADSL2 connection.  Very Happy
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« Reply #27 on: January 27, 2006, 05:31:19 PM »
is that in australia ?
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« Reply #28 on: January 27, 2006, 09:06:38 PM »
Quote from: Gareh on October 25, 2005, 06:05:14 AM
This is my new 12/1 ADSL2 connection.  Very Happy
pretty fast for adsl o it is adsl 2
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« Reply #29 on: January 29, 2006, 10:28:47 AM »
Yep. In Australia. Its actually ADSL2+ now. My ISP (iiNet - www.iinet.net.au) has uncapped their service to possible cater up to 24Mbps. I'm about 2.1km away from my exchange so I only manage 14Mbps.

Here's a test from here:

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 8247 Kbps about 8.2 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 1007 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (server1)
Test Time:: Mon Jan 30 2006 00:29:00 GMT+0800
Bottom Line:: 147X faster than 56K 1MB download in 1.02 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 275.38 % faster than the average for host (net.au)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-NAEDR938W

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 8247 Kbps about 8.2 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 1007 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (server1)
Test Time:: Mon Jan 30 2006 00:29:00 GMT+0800
Bottom Line:: 147X faster than 56K 1MB download in 1.02 sec
Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 275.38 % faster than the average for host (net.au)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-NAEDR938W
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