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View Poll Results: What is your internet connection speed?
56K Dial-up 28 10.98%
256K 28 10.98%
512K 57 22.35%
1024K 20 7.84%
1500K+ 122 47.84%
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Old 21-02-2006, 12:11 AM   #91
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I got the best residential service...Optus Cable.
A 3mb MP3 is about 15-20 seconds depending on the other end.
Several times I have managed to download at 1.5Megabits per second

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Old 21-02-2006, 12:19 AM   #92
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I got the best residential service...Optus Cable.
A 3mb MP3 is about 15-20 seconds depending on the other end.
Several times I have managed to download at 1.5Megabits per second
On ADSL2+ you could download that file up to 16 times faster (i.e. a 3MB MP3 in about 1 second) So long as the server hosting the file could handle the fast download speed. I am to far from the exchange to get max speeds, so it'd take me about 3-4 seconds to download a 3MB file. Pretty slow for ADSL2+ but it'll do ;)
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Old 21-02-2006, 12:27 AM   #93
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AAPT- free modem,free connection,cheap fone calls, no contract,1024/512 $59mnth
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Old 22-02-2006, 10:13 AM   #94
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dial up 56k coz i was never actually on the net untill i started to look for a car.
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Old 22-02-2006, 10:56 AM   #95
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AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OMG Whingpool has invaded my favourite forums!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... :evil_laug
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Old 22-02-2006, 07:38 PM   #96
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Optus Cable .. average 500kbs .. 1mb+ on aus sites.

36gb of downloads a month.

would NEVER go back to 56k .. not even if u payed me lol
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Old 02-12-2006, 12:25 PM   #97
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AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OMG Whingpool has invaded my favourite forums!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... :evil_laug

Thankyou.... im not the only one thinking it
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Old 02-12-2006, 12:42 PM   #98
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12.4Mbps Down
1023kbps Up

Not too bad.

A 3 megabyte MP3? 2 Seconds..
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Old 02-12-2006, 03:52 PM   #99
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256/64 Here. About to go to 512 shortly
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Old 03-12-2006, 05:55 PM   #100
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Turbo Dial Up
so its just a little faster than normal dial up (apparently)
when you look at the little flashing computer it says 115.2kbps (whatever that means)!!!!!!!!
Ahah same here...
We should be upgrading to Broadband VERY SOON!!! I cannot cope with Dial-Up!!!

Can anyone find me some cheap broadband on the ISP's sites?
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Old 03-12-2006, 10:55 PM   #101
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another adam internet user here (adsl2+). they would have to be the best value provider around. $39.95/month with a 5 gig limit.

i've downloaded 40meg in about 30-40 seconds before. as has been mentioned though it depends on the other end a lot of the time. anything off the adam or associated sites will download at around 1.2mb/s. other sites can be as low as 200kb/s
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Old 03-12-2006, 11:05 PM   #102
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1500/512 here... fast enough for what I need out of it
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Old 04-12-2006, 12:28 AM   #103
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Right at this minute, 45.2kbps. Dialup.

Waiting for ADSL2 to arrive. I have ordered it through Internode. 24 000mbps with 40 GB limit. $69.95/month. Just waiting to get it confirmed and get the modem.

We are a fair way from the exchange too, ie 2km, so we wont get the full speed but anything is better than 45.2!
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Old 04-12-2006, 12:58 AM   #104
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ADSL2 Here ...i think We're sitting on about 10Mb at the moment with 1mb up... Hardly anyone will get the full 24Mb connection... You need to be practically living in a phone exchange to get the full 24Mb of speed...I was living 500M from the Wellington St. Exchange in Perth and in the distance my connection speed slowed to 17Mb (about 1.5Mb per 100m)
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Old 08-12-2006, 06:00 PM   #105
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adsl2+ with optus but at least 4 k's from the exchange (around 3-4 mbps)

loving 36gig for $30ish dollars a month.
just annoyed that mum and dads rental property is like 20 METERS from the exchange, they would get some serious speed
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Old 08-12-2006, 09:29 PM   #106
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Optus cable here, recently hit 340kps (through a crap wireless network) d/load with Azureus
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Old 09-12-2006, 12:01 AM   #107
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14MBit down around 1Mbit up now

Jac im around 2km from the exchange here so I would think you'd get similar speeds to me.. Once Internode have installed their DSL2 hardware that is
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Old 09-12-2006, 09:30 AM   #108
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I'm supposed to be on 512, but the last week or so it's been slower than dial up. Pages stop loading half way through, I can't play City of Villains because it's taking 4days+ to d/l the update files from the game server.

If you call the Helpdesk to find out what is going on, you wait on hold for 50min+ before getting some idiot tell you there is nothing wrong, their broadband is ok, there is no fault on my line (been checked by Telstra twice) and it therefore must be my computer.

It's not my computer, and I am not the only one of their customers who is having this problem.
i've lodged a complaint with the TIO and we'll see what happens. If they don't fix it I want out of the contract.
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