On 24/12/2006, at 7:42 AM, Robert Howells wrote:
Now comes the question ....
What do you get out of your 24Mb service
that you would not have if you were on an ADSL1 1.5Mb service ?
( assuming here that u would get the same practical speed of
1.3Mbps )
Good question Bob. At the time we signed up, going with the iinet
ADSL 2+ service with bundled phone was about the same price as ADSL 1
and staying with Telstra for local calls and we were hoping we might
be able to bump our speed up a bit. As it is we did manage 1.9Mbps
with one isolation test, but haven't been able to get near that again
since hooking up the central splitter and cat-5 internal cabling. :-(
On 24/12/2006, at 9:14 PM, Tim Law wrote:
And Martin's essay was truly breathtaking :-)
Hmm yes, don't know what came over me there - must have been the wee
hours of the morning. Thanks for the corrections and extra
illumination Mal and James. Thought I might have missed some bits
somewhere... ;-)
On 24/12/2006, at 10:45 AM, Peter Meyer wrote:
If one is to be pedantic the abbreviation for kilo is lowercase 'k'
- all units below Mega- have lowercase according to SI nomenclature
You're quite right Peter. Interesting to note though that as
Wikipedia says:
"Some have suggested that the capitalized prefix K should be used to
distinguish this quantity from the SI prefix k, and although this has
never been formally mandated, it is commonly practised (even though K
is already used as the SI symbol for kelvins). However, it is not
extensible to the higher-order prefixes, as SI already uses the
prefixes m and M to mean "thousandth" and "million" respectively.
There are also proposals to capitalize all greater-than-unity
prefixes (D, H, K, M, G, ...), which would conflict with this. See SI
prefix."
:-)
-Mart
