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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:
We don't have true high speed broadband in Australia.
One day Tel$tra will be told to extract the digit and fix the damn thing properly.
Especially if you're on Telstra ADSL. Limited to 1500kbpsQuote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
[ I'm on Bigpond cable and get a download speed of 1,063 Kilobytes/s (8.7 Mbps) but still a poor upload speed of 14.5 Kilobytes/s (118 kbps). Lots of room for improvement there]
Don't know what you're all complaining about. I get an average of 3kbps.
Dan
slow up load is so you can not use VOIP.
That's one thing but I should be able to download much quicker. At my age, time is everything. :o
Quite right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
The sad thing is that Telstra could enable decent high-speed BB (c 24Mbps in metro areas, and >12Mbps in metro/suburban areas. The 'Bush" might be a bit different though) in a very short time (most of the required kit is already in place) but won't do so because they'd be obliged to make it available in the wholesale market - which they very much don't want to do...
Of course, this is a HUGE oversimplification of the issues at hand, but nevertheless, everyone suffers from the desperately poor speeds available in the until the issues are resolved.
Actually fast broadband speeds are available in quite a lot of locations around Australia. You just need to look into alternative ISP's. For instance I use Internode <http://on.net>. There are quite a few others that provide adsl 2+.
You need to be very close to the exchange to get > 20mbit speeds. I am around 4km and am on around 6mbit
Here is a quick ftp session:
shaun@gateway:shaun$ 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.
Here Hear! Well said Brother Gumby.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
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
Mirror: Internode
Test type: ADSL
Your connection speed:
<acronym title="Kilobits per second">kbps</acronym>: 1186.5
<acronym title="Kilobytes per second">KB/s</acronym>: 148.31
<acronym title="Megabits per second">Mbps</acronym>: 1.19
(four pcs in use during test. Previous tests with same plan on the big 'T' were half this speed)
Can't see why not..... :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by ptc
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.
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
<tt>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
<acronym title="Kilobits per second">kbps</acronym>: 4046.98
<acronym title="Kilobytes per second">KB/s</acronym>: 505.87
<acronym title="Megabits per second">Mbps</acronym>: 4.05
Reasonable but not the advertised 8Mbs.
Les