I never thought I'd be happy with Telstra...

[fuji]

 . So much for ADSL2, my speed hasnt changed from  .  ADSL. But I shouldn't complain. 12.02mpbs just now.
Wyno

[Robbo]

Hooray!! Good old Telstra, just got our monthly account on-line along with the good news that our line rental and call charges are going up as of first of next month.
I guess it's "because they can" Bast**ds 

[Mallory Black]

This thread got me thinking.. I had switched to Homeline uUtimate 100gig over 2 yrs ago (teenage daughters that's why), Telstra gave me a new Netgear CGD24N v2 that came with the plan.
My BROTHER told me at the time don't worry about ihooking it up, makes no difference blah blah blah.
Anyway... looked up the specs of the old Motorola surfboard modem, it's maxed at 30mbps, It can't take any more than that and not really good with networking.
So toughed out the install process and hooked up the Netgear..

Instantly up from 27.93 to 31.13 download speed.

I'm gonna rub his nose in this!

[maurerless]

Considering I'm 50 clicks out of town and probably 8 clicks from the nearest rural exchange, this isn't a bad result.



Although, that is ADSL2... 

My switch  packed it in recently. (I have ethernet to nearly every room of the house and garage) Maybe a new modem/router with more ports could be a way to get better bandwidth. Won't do anything about the line noise or attenuation though.

[fuji]

Just installed a splitter so I will see if it gets any better.

[austastar]

Hi,
  I had Telstra phone and ADSL bundled, thinking is has got to be cheaper.
I also have a wireless modem for the camper.
ADSL is 5Gb Wireless is 4Gb, both run the same renewal dates.
The idea was to run the ADSL up to 5Gb and switch over to the wireless for the remaining 4Gb in the last week or so. That is about our average usage.


However the kids came down for the weekend and gobbled up a fair whack of the ADSL


Ok, we need to up the ADSL plan for the month.


But with a bundled service, you can't change plans on the web, it has to be done by phone, which is tedious, especially with an unfamiliar accent, no matter how helpful and knowledgeable the person is.


I ended up un-bundling the phone/ADSL ($10 more expensive), dropped the 4Gb wireless to 0.4Mb (it is very slow at our place) and upped the ADSL to 25Gb, which will cost just a bit more in total for the month.


I think the cheapest option would be to go for a faster line with a huge down load availability and share it amongst the neighbours with wifi.


Never had to worry too much about downloads before I retired - but that is the only thing I miss.


cheers

[maurerless]

Hi,
  I had Telstra phone and ADSL bundled, thinking is has got to be cheaper.
I also have a wireless modem for the camper.
ADSL is 5Gb Wireless is 4Gb, both run the same renewal dates.
The idea was to run the ADSL up to 5Gb and switch over to the wireless for the remaining 4Gb in the last week or so. That is about our average usage.

However the kids came down for the weekend and gobbled up a fair whack of the ADSL

Ok, we need to up the ADSL plan for the month.

But with a bundled service, you can't change plans on the web, it has to be done by phone, which is tedious, especially with an unfamiliar accent, no matter how helpful and knowledgeable the person is.

I ended up un-bundling the phone/ADSL ($10 more expensive), dropped the 4Gb wireless to 0.4Mb (it is very slow at our place) and upped the ADSL to 25Gb, which will cost just a bit more in total for the month.

I think the cheapest option would be to go for a faster line with a huge down load availability and share it amongst the neighbours with wifi.

Never had to worry too much about downloads before I retired - but that is the only thing I miss.

cheers

I went from a 12Gb plan to a 500Gb plan and it was cheaper through a Phone/Internet bundle that having them separated. Given my network speeds, I doubt I'd be able to actually download that much in a month. I simply looked at it from the finance side of things. It's cheaper and I get more bandwidth - I couldn't do anything about the speed anyway - too far from the exchange...

Don't forget that if your modem network connection speeds are low and you are sharing that amongst a few PC's the modem becomes a bottleneck and nobody gets anything through...

[Mallory Black]

Booyah!

[dazzler]

But with a bundled service, you can't change plans on the web, it has to be done by phone, which is tedious, especially with an unfamiliar accent, no matter how helpful and knowledgeable the person is.

LOL! 

[Vk3bq]

Not uncommon speed on my mobile ).

[D4D]

I guess we know which carrier you work for now 

[Vk3bq]

[GeoffA]

......

[Bjs58]

this is mine, I am with iinet
was not impressed when compared with others but felt a bit better when i noticed that it was a grade B and faster than 74% of AU 

[Ozsnowman]

Here's mine at home


And 3.31Mb/s down/0.62 upload/ 102ms ping Telstra mobile

[Vk3bq]

this is home  (100mbps)

Last Result:
Download Speed: 100426 kbps (12553.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1670 kbps (208.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 8 ms
1 February 2013 9:15:51 AM AEDT

optus DOCSIS3 cable modem - im near the node start of the node and live in retirement central, not a lot of load on this node..

[Toy pradopetty]

?
Sydney this morning 4g
Cheers
Frank


Cheers
Frank

[krisandkev]

We were in Redcliffe (north Brisbane) the other week and were getting these speeds.



Just south of Hobart at the moment and getting these speeds.



At home, 3 hours north of Brisbane, we usually get these speeds. (With external antenna) So I am still very happy with the 4g mobile USB.   Kevin

[cruisindub]

I looked at those and thought,  wow, Sydney's not much bettter thanhere.

Then I realised you've got yours set to mbps and mines still on kbps...........