Re: cable internet

2010-09-09 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 09/09/2010, at 10:59 AM, Gordon Campbell wrote: The issue I had with the Netgear was regular rebooting I am also using Telstra Cable (and have done for as long as the service has been available) and I have to say that I have not had this problem with the Netgear device. The only real

Re: cable internet

2010-09-08 Thread Woomara
I have an ADSL2 account with an ISP who provide ADSL2+ with apparent 24 mb/sec download / 1 mb/sec upload rates at competitive price BUT I cannot get more than ~7mb/sec download and 0.7 mb/sec upload. From weeks long investigation including changing modems, I conclude that that I am getting

Re: cable internet

2010-09-08 Thread James / Hans Kunz
i'm in bayswater have 2.8mb/s a friend in bicton has 0.5mb/s telstra ruling says from 0.064mb/s it's broad band, that's the reason why we never get a prober internet in WA James On 08/09/2010, at 21:54, Woomara wrote: I have an ADSL2 account with an ISP who provide ADSL2+ with apparent 24

Re: cable internet

2010-09-08 Thread Ray Forma
Hugh, You say you have Telstra cable to your house. That means that you can get Foxtel, and Telstra-only Internet trough that cable. That Internet should have very satisfactory speed. The national telecommunication competition arrangement forces Telstra to allow other providers to use

Re: cable internet

2010-09-08 Thread Gordon Campbell
Hi Hugh, I've got Telstra Cable, pretty much for the same reason you're looking at it. Even though I was eligible for ADSL, the speed was terrible (2-3Mbps if I was lucky) and it would constantly drop out and be generally unstable, requiring many reboots of the router. Telstra Cable on the other

RE: cable internet

2010-09-08 Thread Hugh Griffiths
: cable internet Hi Hugh, I've got Telstra Cable, pretty much for the same reason you're looking at it. Even though I was eligible for ADSL, the speed was terrible (2-3Mbps if I was lucky) and it would constantly drop out and be generally unstable, requiring many reboots of the router. Telstra Cable

Re: cable internet

2010-09-08 Thread Gordon Campbell
On 9 September 2010 10:41, Hugh Griffiths hgriffi...@lgc.com wrote: Gordon, thanks for that, what is wrong with the NetGear? The issue I had with the Netgear was regular rebooting. There's quite a bit of discussion about this on Whirlpool and it has been traced back to issues with the number of