RE: OT? Broadband; router

[Luuk Paulussen]

The modem won't work at all in New Zealand.  Telecom "upgraded" all its 
DSLAMs, which is what the modem connects to.

The change has effected their service significantly, as traffic is queued at 
the DSLAM rather than dropped if the incoming traffic exceeds the DSLAM.  
This makes things worse for any connection which has more than one task 
running (For example online gaming and downloading or surfing and 
downloading or a connection shared by multiple computers.)  Gaming is the 
worst hit, as packet latency is very important in gaming, and you don't 
really want your game traffic stuck behind 10mb of files for example.  
Apparantly this change is very good for heavy downloaders though.

From Telecoms point of view it is a very good thing as they no longer have 
to drop the 30% of international traffic they used to, saving them 30% of 
their international bandwidth costs...  Also it seems to be part of the push 
to get people into higher speed plans.

From: Andrew Packer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: OT? Broadband; router
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:56:56 +1300
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 00:43, Luuk Paulussen wrote:
> The Ni500 doesn't work with Telecoms new alcatel DSLAMs.  (Everyone's
> trying
> to get rid of them now)
>
Whoops.  Can you elaborate a bit for this not-quite-techie?  Does that
mean it won't work in any newly-DSL-enabled exchanges, or not at all in
NZ?
=====Andrew

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