John,
You are absolutely correct on the adsl trial, you get a 1.5mb link.
however you may or may not know that telstra is not that generous.
http://telstra.com/adsl/price.html you will note that adsl is now capped @
512kb unless you are prepared to pay through the nose for bandwith. yes my
downloads from aarnet where about 110kbps however compared to the o@h speed
of 330kbps this is quite slow, and while downloading the latest slakware iso
had the service drop out several times. The problem of the brownouts and
disconnections is more worrying to me than anything else. to be connected to
a telstra server and have the connection drop 4 times inside of 10 minutes,
is in no way acceptable at all. my machine was constantly browning out,
dropping offline, etc. something that for a ppermanent connection is again,
unnaceptable. I am paying $70 a month for a permanent high speed connection,
not for a semi permanent occasionally burst high speed connection.
Patrick
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Ferlito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 11 August 2000 5:03 PM
To: Patrick Kelso
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSl - The Verdict
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:00:32PM +1000, Patrick Kelso wrote:
> OK,
> I've had adsl for 24hrs now, and have the verdict of the service for
you all. Its crap. I have tried downloads from Australia, which while faster
than dialup are pathetic compared to optus cable (but at least I can do more
than 500mb per day). International, there is almost no difference from 56k
dialup. http is painfully slow, my mail still takes forever and ftp is
marginal at around 7-12kps on average. Hopefully when all traffic is no
longer routed through melbourne it might pick up.
I've been connected for the last 2 months and I'd have to say your
assertions are crap :)
Just did some quick tests.
mirror.aarnet.edu.au - And don't forget this traffic is coming from
queensland from optus through telstra via melbourne and then to my adsl
link. Downloading an ISO image.
Using lftp with 1 connection - 50kBytes/s
Using lftp with 10 connections - 150kBytes/s
ftp.freesoftware.com in US - where cdrom.com moved there free stuff.
Using lftp with 1 connection - 28kBytes/s
Using lftp with 10 connections - 140kBytes/s
And these numbers where going up I just couldn't be bothered waiting around
for final values. The numbers above are the value after about 30 secs.
Now I've got a 1.5M connection. So the theoretical maximum if we ignore
overhead is 192kBytes/s .
I'd say they're pretty impressive figures and there's a fair amount of
overhead here too, ATM->Ethernet->PPP->IP->TCP.
Ok that's only two sites but there 2 well connected sights so I
think you could safely say the problems your experiencing aren't ADSL
related. Just normal network congestion somewhere else along the line.
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