Computer Jargon

[PREISS]

Firefox 3 on main com

with that plugin that allows you to rip videos off you tube

IE7 on my laptop, couldn't be bothered to change.

+1 for the SAU cod4 clan thing.

all this comp talk and only 2 ppl play COD4 ?

surely more play. Im not a keen gamer and I still play COD4 religiously

[Madaz]

i play cod4 but not in a long time get crap FPS

[nos man]

god damn steve you on adsl2+ or something?

[Madaz]

Lol its CABLE i even said it when i posted

[bezender]

i had cable at the last place i was at.. awesome speed

strange the upload is so slow.

even tho i work for b!gpond i wont use em

i love internode

[nos man]

Lol its CABLE i even said it when i posted

too impressed with the figures that i didn't read what you wrote

[Cubes]

Sucks being 4.7km's from the exchange.

Syncs at 5.4mb down and 1mb up on the HS profile which introduces a little latency but meh.

I'll grab a speed test from work tomorrow of which is limited by the LAN

[Nightcrawler]

gahhhh you guys suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I am stuck in pov ADSL1+ hell as I live in a suburb in which the whole darn suburb runs off a rim. I am with Adam, and have so-called ADSL1+ up to 8Mb/s interwebs .... bleh 8Mb/s my ass - the most I have ever seen in 4.5Mb/s, and often believe it or not, it goes down as slow as 300kb/s. Before I had normal ADSL1 1.5Mb/s and it was always 1.5Mb/s. Now with ADSL1+ I frequently don't even get that

[rhys5169]

im always on cod4, but on the ps3

[Cubes]

gahhhh you guys suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I am stuck in pov ADSL1+ hell as I live in a suburb in which the whole darn suburb runs off a rim. I am with Adam, and have so-called ADSL1+ up to 8Mb/s interwebs .... bleh 8Mb/s my ass - the most I have ever seen in 4.5Mb/s, and often believe it or not, it goes down as slow as 300kb/s. Before I had normal ADSL1 1.5Mb/s and it was always 1.5Mb/s. Now with ADSL1+ I frequently don't even get that

As your on a resold telstra port - If speeds drop to 300kb/s thats Helstra capping the speeds as they do not have enough backhaul from the exchange.

Often what occurs is they cap speeds due to congestion and then book an upgrade 2-3months in advance. BUT.. Sometimes the customers are not that lucky and they are stuck with 300kb/s.

Usually those on a rim experience these issues.

I'd be interested if Telstra also cap their own customers at the same exchange. I know they sure as hell cap their wholesale customers.

[SLED]

I'm with Adam as well Andrew with this result........big difference in Ping speed, what's that all about?

[DamageInc]

[Madaz]

As your on a resold telstra port - If speeds drop to 300kb/s thats Helstra capping the speeds as they do not have enough backhaul from the exchange.

Often what occurs is they cap speeds due to congestion and then book an upgrade 2-3months in advance. BUT.. Sometimes the customers are not that lucky and they are stuck with 300kb/s.

Usually those on a rim experience these issues.

I'd be interested if Telstra also cap their own customers at the same exchange. I know they sure as hell cap their wholesale customers.

haha how long have Internode, iiNet, TPG Internet, OptusNet, Exetel, Westnet, aaNet, Netspace, Adam Internet, AAPT, Amnet, iPrimus, Virgin Broadband, Comcen Internet, People Telecom, 3, Spin Internet, Dodo, Vodafone all be purchasing phone lines must be going on 20 odd years would of thought a few of them could of pooled resources and made there own lines by now (this may be me being narrow minded) im just sick of aforementioned compaines crying when my company tried to give me a good deal all the others whinge saying now its unfair

I'm with Adam as well Andrew with this result........big difference in Ping speed, what's that all about?

ping is relative to your distance from the exchange and how many hops you pass through to get to the desired server and back (that is a brief of ping)

[SLED]

so according to 17ms I must be relatively close

[Nightcrawler]

I am only 1km away, but with cable length it is probably 2km

I see too that the brand new part of Northgate - 'Lightsview' - is advertising super high speed broadband - fibre to node! And here we are right next door running off a rim. I have even tried to bribe Tel$uck people to let me pay for copper to be run to my house from Oakden (under 300m and they have ADSL2+), but to no avail

Yeah you might be right with the capping thing Joel - but fact is my DSL can very between 1Mb/s and 4Mb/s several times in the same day. The 300kb/s was just once.

[Normsta]

I'm on ADSL2 and all I get is this:

I live almost 5km from the St. Marys exchange.

Edited September 10, 2008 by Normsta

[Cubes]

haha how long have Internode, iiNet, TPG Internet, OptusNet, Exetel, Westnet, aaNet, Netspace, Adam Internet, AAPT, Amnet, iPrimus, Virgin Broadband, Comcen Internet, People Telecom, 3, Spin Internet, Dodo, Vodafone all be purchasing phone lines must be going on 20 odd years would of thought a few of them could of pooled resources and made there own lines by now (this may be me being narrow minded) im just sick of aforementioned compaines crying when my company tried to give me a good deal all the others whinge saying now its unfair

ping is relative to your distance from the exchange and how many hops you pass through to get to the desired server and back (that is a brief of ping)

Its super expensive and not feasible for a small group of customers that pay $39.95 per month for their adsl and call twice a month because their wireless has dropped out or their crap norton/mcafee antivirus has begun preventing them from sending emails.

1. The copper network/backhaul was rolled out via tax payers money. Telstra 'and' the copper network was then sold off at a price that was simply too cheap. Overseas similar has occurred eventually the government has purchased back the copper network.

Telstra is anticompetitive but hell any company with a monopoly would do the same.

Its huge bucks to lay fibre optic to an exchange for what.. a small group of customers that pay bugger all per month.

However there is another company that layed fibre optic to 'some' exchanges when supplying power around the place.

They charge a reasonable price which has allowed those 'aforementioned' companies to offer ADSL2+ to customers.

Delivering ADSL2+ via telstra's backhaul is not feasible; they charge through the nose.

2. Then there's the so RIM's they were rolled out simply for cost reasons of which prevents ADSL2+ being delivered via a rivals DSLAM. As a result the customer is stuck on a Telstra's ADSL1 port.

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SLED.. Pings - In this instance it depends on interleaving/error correction placed on he line.

Typically higher speed profiles that push the usable spectrum to the limit employ greater error correction/interleaving as a result pings increase.

An ADSL line profile essentially employs a given interleaving and target SNR.

[Madaz]

Yeah Joel i under stand its not just as easy as buying some copper/ fibre and digging a hole

i also think that the government shouldn't of sold telstra complete they should of seperated the lines from the rest of it then every one would have to pay for line rental and it would be a true level playing field

[bezender]

im in 2 minds about telstra being sold...

its better off being either private or government, not a bit of both... you cant be 1/2 pregnant

in relation to you all that are pretty far away from the exchange, have a look into internodes naked extreme.... they have stripped the dial tone off the line, and therefore have reduced latency and increased the distance that an adsl signal can be received from the exchange from approx 5 km to over 7 km. if you are happy using a VoIP service this could be a good means to get better intarwebs

[Madaz]

Anything naked is good i would of thought