Posted by dorayme on 06/10/07 23:43

In article <nyVai.11529$wH4.8592@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"rf" <rf@invalid.com> wrote:

> "dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:doraymeRidThis-E9B00E.18431110062007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> > In article <DIOai.11383$wH4.941@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> > "rf" <rf@invalid.com> wrote:
>
> >> Proof is here. I just got your post at 18:28. I note you posted at 11:39.
> >> Bigpond is running *seriously* slow, and their server is just around the
> >> corner from yours :-(
> >>
> >> > Seriously, considered Optus?
> >>
> >> Droptus?
> >>
> >> Do they do cable? No way I'd use any of that ADSL stuff. Way too slow!
> >
> > Now that is funny considering I am on ADSL (true, it ADSL 2) and
> > you are the one getting the slowdowns.
>
> Now think, very very slowly and carefully, about this dorayme:
>
> It is my *news server* that is slow. Not my internet connection.
>
> That is, I see your posts six hours after you make them, because the Bigpond
> *news server* is remiss in obtaining posts from nearby servers I presume.
>
> My internet connection has nothing at all to do with this. My internet
> connection is fine. It is the *news server* that is at fault. Got that?
>
> Oddly enough I did a test my internet connection tonight, for reasons other
> than conversing with you. http://www.speedtest.net/ reports my connection
> at 5.7 megabits per second. How does your ADSL[1 or 2] connection compare
> with this?
>
> <snippage>
>
> Hmmm.
> Then again this has nothing at all to do with fake submit buttons.

Richard! I did not have to think slowly and carefully, I see this
ball coming like a top batsman sees the thing coming towards him
as the size of a football curling in the air like a shuttlecock
whose feathers have taken a grip in mid air.

The point is, what good is your cable if a main thing you want to
do takes ages - no matter that the cause is the ISP's management
and systems relevant to the material you want and not the cable
connection per se.

Put it another way, I would prefer my old battered Ford to a
Ferrari if the latter, just imagine it, could not get AM radio
(where, on Radio National, there are the best programs).

At the same time I thought I would say things about ADSL compared
to cable. Perhaps ADSL2 would not suit you for very high speed
games and streaming movies and other things? Anyway, the Optus
news server seems very very good to me.

As for speed, let me open FF and see:

6.27 Mbps

For a pretty pic of the result:

http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/test/pics/adsl2.png

It is now 9.42 am in Sydney and the sun, thankfully, is up and
bright.

--
dorayme

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