To bad ADSL is not available for my area yet still... damn telstra.. I'll be
sure to investigate it, just like alot of other people will.
In the meantime, my family has a shiny new demand dial modem router, to
share the dingoblue account... :))
----- Original Message -----
From: "Crossfire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dave Fitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] fscking ISPs
> Dave Fitch was once rumoured to have said:
> > I've heard rumours that it's not worth forking out for
> > the 512k plan, something to the effect that the 256k
> > plan gives you the same "real world" speeds and costs
> > less. Has anyone got any experience of both plans/speeds?
>
> Well, I went from a 1500k business to a 512k freedom.
>
> On the 1500Kbps plan, When the network isn't being flooded by weenies
> leeching, you do get full datarate to telstra hosts. Handy if you
> suck news or pull files from telstra hosted mirrors.
>
> On the 512K plan I've been finding I get transfers running at the
> capacity of the link... particularly from most australian sites... but
> only since Telstra finished their most recent round of capacity
> upgrades. Before the capacity upgrades, things were only performing
> down in the 256Kbps band until late late night.
>
> C.
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