• Telstra's old as fuck Copper lines "perform robustly" says new NBN cheif
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Got my fibre installed last Friday. Had to put it in my water heater shed out the front, wireless only with pretty terrible reception. Its not that bad I guess. 3.1mb a second average is still way better than the 600kb I was getting before.
[QUOTE=triplej05;42912832]Got my fibre installed last Friday. Had to put it in my water heater shed out the front, wireless only with pretty terrible reception. Its not that bad I guess. 3.1mb a second average is still way better than the 600kb I was getting before.[/QUOTE] if only you could connect some copper cabling directly into it
[QUOTE=triplej05;42912832]Got my fibre installed last Friday. Had to put it in my water heater shed out the front, wireless only with pretty terrible reception. Its not that bad I guess. 3.1mb a second average is still way better than the 600kb I was getting before.[/QUOTE] You should definitely get some cables to your house or get it set up in your home, I get 12mb/s on a good day but my wifi is slow as hell. [editline]19th November 2013[/editline] average around 6-7mb/s though.
I get 17 Mbps on the Gold Coast, is that good?
I feel sorry for my mate, the area he lives in is pretty old and the copper wiring hasn't had maitenance in years, his net continously dc's and is about the same speed as dialup, dno how he lives with it. I want my damn fiber though, 300kb/s is fucking retarded
I live with 500/600kbps (sometimes it drops to 150-200) and fuckin telstras minimum speed limit is 125kbps, if going above that then the Internet is working at a fine speed Who the fuck thought 125kb/s and above was fine, especially with them fucking over my family spending 140$ on this shit every month.
I'm lucky to live in a neighbourhood that can get 100Mbps cable connections :D
four kilometers from the exchange, robust noisy copper connection robust 160 kilobytes per second downloads from hosts in my own city bandwidth is so robust I can be playing on a server with 100 ms ping as long as no one so much as browses the internet at the same time, lest it jumps to 400-900ms finally showed up on the NBN plan, due for improvement in 2 years or so, but now no longer scheduled for any improvements in the future, NBN or not. I just [I]love[/I] my robustly performing copper connection and I hope it continues robustly declining in performance in the future as it has been for the past five years.
I usually don't get outraged by political things but this tickles my pickle in the wrong way, is there a way for us to do something about this? Surely a petition or something will get them to change their minds?
[QUOTE=jjjohan;42912577]Don't worry, in 2020 Australia will have blazing fast ~24mbit ADSL2+. Thanks Mr. Turnbull! That'll put my current 24mbit ADSL2+ connection to shame. We're leading the world in technology. A lot of people I know are stuck with 8mbit or less still.[/QUOTE] Only get 56kbs down over here. Not even dialup...
By performing robustly he means performing cheaply. Meanwhile our internet goes to shit if there's even a hint of rain, and even when it's a fine day we get 300kb/s tops.
Just signed up to 100Mb/s today. Yip, yip yip. [editline]20th November 2013[/editline] Should be connected on Monday.
12 MBPS is a decent speed for the masses in my opinion, you can download games in a reasonable amount of time, and other things. I'm stuck here with 400 kilobytes a second damnit
And I'm still sitting on 700kb/s - 1mb/s speeds A lot better than 2 years ago when we got a max of 56kb/s but fucking hell
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;42913678]12 MBPS is a decent speed for the masses in my opinion, you can download games in a reasonable amount of time, and other things.[/QUOTE] 12Mb/s is barely enough to stream good quality 1080p video. Sure, it might be okay for some, but we're quickly approaching the time when everything in using the internet, and not just a small amount of bandwidth either.
[QUOTE=Em See;42913087]... bandwidth is so robust I can be playing on a server with 100 ms ping as long as no one so much as browses the internet at the same time, lest it jumps to 400-900ms ...[/QUOTE] That's got nothing to do with your connection, it's down to how your router schedules outgoing data. Now if it was somebody else uploading data that killed your downstream connection, that's normal. The downside of our "asynchronous" connections is that (due to how TCP functions) your downstream speed is defined by your upstream bandwidth, start uploading data and your downstream bandwidth will go down. In other places you see things like 50/20 connections, where the upstream data is a fair portion of the downstream, while over here we're running 24/1.
Sure fucking love having a shitline and had to call 6 times for Telstra to do something, 4 weeks since I called up and said a technician was on their way. Oh and when some days getting 2 mbps is a miracle and I've had speeds of 0.30mbps. Fuck off, copper lines are shithouse.
Robust, the term you use when describing something that is in shitty shape, but is old so you don't want to be mean.
[QUOTE=IAmAnooB;42912685]I know this is a popular opinion and all, but governments, companies, countries should try to push Fibre cabling on a much larger scale. Not just to cities or so. Getting a large fibre infrastructure could help a country. At least how I see it. Of course, this is hard and very expensive but on the other hand. Fibre cables are more reliable then copper cables, most of the times don't need as much maintenance as copper cables, and can do much much longer cable runs without a repeater/signal amplifier. Not just that, but the obvious bandwidth difference.[/QUOTE] well that's what the old labour government was already in the process of doing then they got unelected
this may be true but with the price of copper being.....stupidly high....and the cost of glass falling due to massive natural gas glut glass being made of...sand.... copper has/did/fallen waybehind, the maximum amount of information we can send over it easily, they knew it was a problem back in the fucking 70s mind you, they predicted within 10 years (1970s data numbers) they would need to be putting in fiber optic, now just about every goverment building has fiber optic, all universities have it between their important shit, why the fuck are you complaining about upgrading when everybody but the fucking consumers have the available speeds
Fuck you Australia
I've been stuck on 24/1 instead of 100/10 for a few months now because I haven't bothered to order the faster connection. Guess I should do that this week.
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;42918829]That's got nothing to do with your connection, it's down to how your router schedules outgoing data. Now if it was somebody else uploading data that killed your downstream connection, that's normal. The downside of our "asynchronous" connections is that (due to how TCP functions) your downstream speed is defined by your upstream bandwidth, start uploading data and your downstream bandwidth will go down. In other places you see things like 50/20 connections, where the upstream data is a fair portion of the downstream, while over here we're running 24/1.[/QUOTE] That's correct, but you've also got to factor in that because some people have such low connection speeds below a megabit per second, and especially for upload, even fairly small packet requests for websites with an average amount of content (stylesheets, images, javascript, text, anything that isn't packed together essentially counts as an individual packet) even basic browsing will essentially bring the entire network to a crawl regardless of how amazing your router is. One of my mates is simply unable to play any games if one of his family members simultaneously uses the internet which makes it difficult to convince to him how my internet isn't dark magic when someone torrents (limited upload of course) or streams videos on my PC while they're using their laptop on the same network without issue.
it works but its fucking terrible
[QUOTE=jjjohan;42923139]That's correct, but you've also got to factor in that because some people have such low connection speeds below a megabit per second, and especially for upload, even fairly small packet requests for websites with an average amount of content (stylesheets, images, javascript, text, anything that isn't packed together essentially counts as an individual packet) even basic browsing will essentially bring the entire network to a crawl regardless of how amazing your router is. One of my mates is simply unable to play any games if one of his family members simultaneously uses the internet which makes it difficult to convince to him how my internet isn't dark magic when someone torrents (limited upload of course) or streams videos on my PC while they're using their laptop on the same network without issue.[/QUOTE] I actually have the same issue with upload, Origin syncing game saves on my PC is enough to stop *any* inbound data, can't even do DNS lookups. Edit: My router is running codel, which does help, but my bandwidth is still limited enough that I can easily overwhelm it.
This plan only serves to waste money as it'll have to be replaced the second a competent government is in place.
Connected at 120Mb/s. So nice being able to download at 12MB/s+
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