On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Tony Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,**** > > ** ** > > <rant>**** > > ** ** > > I’m interested in seeing how many of you experience YouTube throttling.*** > * > > ** > Is it deliberate throttling, or what I'd call accidental (caused maybe by inadequate backhaul)? > ** > > It irritates me that I have BigPond Cable Ultimate Liberty, experiencing > download speeds of between 50Mbps and 100Mbps most of the time, but any > time I visit YouTube or ABC iView, I get atrocious speeds. I never got this > when I was on TPG.**** > > ** ** > > If you use youtube, there is a youtube page where you can see a comparison > to see how throttling is affecting you:**** > > http://www.youtube.com/my_speed **** > > ** > It doesn't look good, but I am at work. I don't have any expectation that youtube should be good here. > ** > > Basically, normal internet use would see lots of peaks and troughs. When > being throttled, the lines flatten out somewhat, and are below the average. > My speeds are consistently below Victorian average, and I’m on Telstra’s > fastest product. WTF? > I'll look at it on my vdsl2 connection at home, I'm paying for 100/30 there. vdsl seems to work better than adsl, but I think it's the typical installations (fibre to apartment basement, cat 5 to vdsl2 modem in apartment.) that fix the degradation with distance adsl suffers. Cable would be HFC? THat depends on how many users you have running off the local fibre node? I refer you to Graeme Samuel http://www.zdnet.com/fttn-hfc-are-dead-end-nbn-alternatives-samuel-7000005901/ HFC networks have gotten so bad that Samuel joked that he advises neighbours at the street Christmas party not to subscribe to Telstra's "hopeless" HFC — just so "at least I can continue to get reasonable speeds at 8 p.m." "Fortunately, most people listen to me as the local expert on the subject, and don't go onto Telstra's cable for their broadband," he laughed. "It's a great relief in my street." > **** > > ** ** > > Bring on the NBN I say.**** > > ** ** > > </rant>**** > > ** ** > > Regards,**** > > Tony**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
