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Thread ID: 68596 2006-05-04 09:58:00 Is Telecom turning nasty JJJJJ (528) PC World Chat
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452059 2006-05-04 09:58:00 Looks like Telecom is deliberately cutting speed.


Download time: 7.062 seconds
Size of file: 1000 Kilobytes
Estimated line speed: 1155.5 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 141.6 (kilobytes/second)
For a supposed 3500 line speed

Download Speed: 727 kbps (90.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 107 kbps (13.4 KB/sec transfer rate)


Connection to IHug
Test file size: 512 KiloBytes
Download time: 4.656 seconds
Estimated speed: 898 Kilobits/sec (110 KiloBytes/sec)
JJJJJ (528)
452060 2006-05-04 10:25:00 How many threads do we need about this?

The UBS network is OVERSUBSCRIBED.

Performance WILL vary.

There isn't ANYTHING you can do about it, and there is very little your ISP can do about it, and even less the people here can do about it.

Flogging a very very dead horse.
ninja (1671)
452061 2006-05-04 10:31:00 If you’re unhappy with your broadband speed, move to Xtra as I can get 300+ KB/sec. stu161204 (123)
452062 2006-05-04 10:50:00 If you’re unhappy with your broadband speed, move to Xtra as I can get 300+ KB/sec. :groan: :groan: :groan: :rolleyes:

Seriously now.
ninja (1671)
452063 2006-05-04 23:58:00 Looks like Telecom is deliberately cutting speed.


Ninja is right, there are already a million threads on this. The equipment in a lot of exchanges can't handle everyone being on 3.5 or whatever.
pctek (84)
452064 2006-05-05 01:25:00 A million threads eh! It must be a big issue then that fully justifies the inches it's given, i.e. it's topical :rolleyes: Murray P (44)
452065 2006-05-05 01:46:00 Ninja is right, there are already a million threads on this. The equipment in a lot of exchanges can't handle everyone being on 3.5 or whatever.
that exactly what i think will be the case. with unbundling it will certainly show up how good/bad telecoms network is, and i suspect it will be bad.
it certainly explains why they have drip fed the speeds over the years while they have slowly upgraded the system to cope with the huge amount of traffic the faster speeds generate.
tweak'e (69)
452066 2006-05-05 02:35:00 it certainly explains why they have drip fed the speeds over the years while they haven't slowly upgraded the system which doesn't cope with the huge amount of traffic the faster speeds generate.
Fixt
ninja (1671)
452067 2006-05-05 02:50:00 The backbone, and the exchanges are overloaded by all the threads complaining about slow broadband. Speed will increase only when people stop complaining about it. ;) Graham L (2)
452068 2006-05-05 03:46:00 The backbone, and the exchanges are overloaded by all the threads complaining about slow broadband. Speed will increase only when people stop complaining about it. ;)

So pretty much its never gonna happen :p
Overdrive_5000 (4950)
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