I'm on iiNets broadband 2, my connection is approximately 4mb - I get downloads of 430kb/s regularly. I'm about 2km from the exchange.

The largest quicktime movie trailers come down faster than real time.

And all this for $39.95 a month :-)

Karl


On 02/03/2005, at 3:22 PM, Robert Howells wrote:

Oh what great excitement ....... 8000k Adsl ....?? that's 8MB just about enough
to run Video ..... so they say ?

I would suggest there are a lot of issues to be resolved before this performs
like we would like it to .
The chances of getting a copper circuit that would handle that speed
are small if they exist at all .


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