Broadband speeds

[Harry72]

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:

[Gumby]

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.

[snowyskiesau]

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]

[DanP]

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

Dan

[ptc]

slow up load is so you can not use VOIP.

[Gumby]

That's one thing but I should be able to download much quicker. At my age, time is everything.

[Auld Bassoon]

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.

[sbranden]

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.

[keith53]

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.

[ubeaut]

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

[Groggy]

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)

[Cliff Rogers]

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.

[Cliff Rogers]

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

[sbranden]

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

[lesmeyer]

Bigpond cable in Carine, Perth

kbps: 4046.98
KB/s: 505.87
Mbps: 4.05

Reasonable but not the advertised 8Mbs.

Les