Internet speeds. What do you get?

[Bribie G]

Even russian porn has better dialogue than 50 shades...

Have read a page of 50 shades........

Does 50 shades have ornate carpets on the wall?


I've been getting a magnificent 2 Mb/s via Telstra so-called ADSL 2 so I'm scrapping the home bundle ($100 per month) and getting a second smartphone (70 dollar jobbie) and buying two Aldimobile deals a month ($70). That will give me unlimited calls within Australia and 10 gigs of data. I normally use around 12 so should squeeze through. Wireless usually pulls around 6 Mb/s - big Telstra tower in the next street.

I expect to save around $800 a year over my current spend of $100 with Telstra and $35 with Aldi. If NBN ever makes it to Old Bar, let's wait and see. Lucky man Spork.

 

[grantb]

Just make sure you check the fine print with ALDIMobile. They have great data plans, but their AUP limits you to around 400mb per day (don't remember exactly). Easily managable, but you need to keep an eye on it.

 

[pk.sax]

Internode 60 bucks a month naked, 150gig get around 13-14 Mbps line speed. Can't complain about quality of service, they've never let me down yet.

 

[GuyQLD]

Internode 60 bucks a month naked, 150gig get around 13-14 Mbps line speed. Can't complain about quality of service, they've never let me down yet.

I have a similar relationship with iinet. They aren't the cheapest around but the customer service is impeccable. I've never been treated like an idiot when I've called customer support and the few times I've called them they've asked me what I've tried already - once within 30 seconds they were already checking the connection from their end and in under 5 minutes they'd booked a telstra tech to look at the line (turns out someone had put a shovel through a line not far from me).

Compared to Optus who refused to do anything but read idiotic scripts at me, it's a worthwhile change. The same problem would have taken weeks with Optus. Slack bastards.

 

[MCHammo]

About 3km from local exchange line of sight. Estimated 5km by copper, on Optus ADSL2+ (apparently)

2.84 Mbps down, 0.55 Mbps up, 47ms ping

Sitting in the same spot with my phone, on Vodafone 3G HSPA connection

6.15 Mbps down, 3.38 Mbps up, 37ms ping

Half the time I don't even bother switching on the WiFi on my phone when I get home. There is no point.

 

[Bizier]

Under 10km from Perth CBD and I believe my internet has yet to invent the wheel, it is still dragging skids.

I get about 2-3 down and 1-2 up at 4km from exchange. It is a joke.

Exetel naked on Telstra hardware. I was thinking about fixed wireless, but I have been too busy.

 

[mr_wibble]

NBN sattelite ... Terrible latency, but you expect that. The real problem is congestion, when the countries' kids get home from skool, we're lucky if we get 40kbytes/sec down.

Makes it difficult to use it for work. To "balance" it, they just spam a truckload of man-in-the-middle TCP resets which fecks-up my SSH logins etc, but also has more upsetting side effects, like when the javascript for a shopping cart, or ahem - the image processing script for this forum don't complete loading.

Maybe they've over-subscribed their pipe to match their peak loads? At 5 in the morning it's pretty good.

 

[Bribie G]

Just make sure you check the fine print with ALDIMobile. They have great data plans, but their AUP limits you to around 400mb per day (don't remember exactly). Easily managable, but you need to keep an eye on it.

Hmm, looking at their site I don't see any mention of "bolt ons" any more and get a sneaky feeling they are going to replace the $35 unlimited "bolt on" with a $35 unlimited "plan" that only gives 2.5 gigs. Might have to look at another option like naked DSL.

edit: yes they have. Bugger.

 

[sp0rk]

About 3km from local exchange line of sight. Estimated 5km by copper, on Optus ADSL2+ (apparently)

2.84 Mbps down, 0.55 Mbps up, 47ms ping

Sitting in the same spot with my phone, on Vodafone 3G HSPA connection

6.15 Mbps down, 3.38 Mbps up, 37ms ping

Half the time I don't even bother switching on the WiFi on my phone when I get home. There is no point.

Flick me your home phone number in a PM and I'll tell you the exact length of the copper to your house if you'd like (if you're on Telstra copper)
If you're 5k's out, you're lucky to still be getting line sync, really

 

[grantb]

If you're 5k's out, you're lucky to still be getting line sync, really


In my experience, quality of modem matters here. Some are simply better at handling lines with poor signal to noise ratio and/or attenuation.

Also, in some cases people are better off setting modulation on their modems to ADSL1, which is capable of up to 8mbit and generally more stable.

 

[sp0rk]

In my experience, quality of modem matters here. Some are simply better at handling lines with poor signal to noise ratio and/or attenuation.

Also, in some cases people are better off setting modulation on their modems to ADSL1, which is capable of up to 8mbit and generally more stable.

This is true, but if you're getting a loop loss of >6.5dB (usually at more than 5000m of copper), more often than not you won't get line sync

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Hmm, looking at their site I don't see any mention of "bolt ons" any more and get a sneaky feeling they are going to replace the $35 unlimited "bolt on" with a $35 unlimited "plan" that only gives 2.5 gigs. Might have to look at another option like naked DSL.

edit: yes they have. Bugger.

Went to buy my reg $35 bolt-on and was informed that they no longer had the cards.

The "New" $35 bolt on is basically the same but with only 2.5g data.....

I did read something a few months ago along the lines of tel$tra worked out that they lost out on the deal.

 

[bum]

 

[jomio]

My speed test results are,

Downloadspeed:5.787Mbps
Uploadspeed:0.187Mbps
I checked my internet speed test here ScanMySpeed.com
Is this good or not?

 

[pk.sax]

Just switched to Telstra pre-paid and getting proper 4g. ******* great speed. Can't believe it's better and cheaper than the vodafail plan.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/822354647



That photo upload happened in a blink!!!

 

[Liam_snorkel]

Wait til you get full reception somewhere that isn't busy - I've got close to 100Mbps a few times.

 

[pk.sax]

I reckon my poor 16gig phone will shit itself if subjected to such extreme violence!