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| Thread ID: 71073 | 2006-07-25 21:55:00 | Latest Broadband News Today, Telecom to Pay | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 473549 | 2006-07-26 06:24:00 | What question? Anyway, my router reports 4288. Haha, it wishes... I know you know, but you have a overloaded local exchange, exactly like I had. I guess you are one of the 16,000 people being worse off as in this artical (add a friggen 0 to that figure). pcworld.co.nz This article basically sais "Telecom" has not upgraded there network properly and they make it sound like its not there fault lol. Hate the media |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 473550 | 2006-07-26 07:33:00 | My old's router reported like 9000 or something | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 473551 | 2006-07-26 07:53:00 | 4 per cent would achieve speeds between 8-10 megabits per second I though 8Mbps was the ADSL modem maximum? And really, to me it seems that we are already getting the maximum speed the network can handle, the problem is that this speed is only about 2.5-3.0Mbps :( So unconstraining won't do anything for a lot of people. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 473552 | 2006-07-26 08:23:00 | Yeah im pretty sure between 8 - 12mbits is ADSL 2. 12 - 24 is ADSL2+ Hm, i guess im lucky living on the rim of the city (chch). The exchange doesnt appear to be congested. I can get full 3.5 all throughout the day, I have a line rate of 4288. You'd think Telecom would appreciate a better image of themselves by actually giving a proper service and having some sort of respect. I suppose unconstrained is still something, can't ***** and moan too much, though, it may sometimes be hard. |
jermsie (6820) | ||
| 473553 | 2006-07-26 21:42:00 | computerworld.co.nz "The report says that unconstrained line rates will hit service quality hard. An estimated 170,000 customers will not get the 2Mbit/s and 3.5Mbit/s download speeds. Although ADSL2+ is capable of 24Mbit/s, Telecom estimates only four percent of customers would hit that download speed. Just over half would get between 10Mbit/s to 20Mbit/s. Telecom's estimates are that three-quarters would get more than 6Mbit/s and two-thirds over 8Mbit/s, but it stresses that it doesn't yet know for sure as extensive tests are needed to verify the performance." Note the last bit - doesn't know for sure. Bet they do know. And bet its worse than they admit. And of course they will have adjusted their small print by then so no more refunds, it will be tough luck, go away. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 473554 | 2006-07-26 23:43:00 | Yeah im pretty sure between 8 - 12mbits is ADSL 2. 12 - 24 is ADSL2+ Hm, i guess im lucky living on the rim of the city (chch). The exchange doesnt appear to be congested. I can get full 3.5 all throughout the day, I have a line rate of 4288. You'd think Telecom would appreciate a better image of themselves by actually giving a proper service and having some sort of respect. I suppose unconstrained is still something, can't ***** and moan too much, though, it may sometimes be hard. Actually the jump form 2.5 to 3.5MB was a disaster for many people. Thousands that had good fast working 2Mb connections have found themselves far worse off getting under 1Mb during the evenings (and a lot worse). Clearly Telecom have under invested in there network and one get the feeling any attempt at increasing general speeds will have a exponential effect on the people effected by performance (in fact everything points to it). You could easily find yourself far worse off. It is all to do with burst speeds back haul and contention ratios. |
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