Posted by dorayme on 07/26/07 03:36

In article <wmUpi.12171$4A1.6039@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"rf" <rf@invalid.com> wrote:

> "dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:doraymeRidThis-6E37CE.12572526072007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> > Dear rf,
>
> G'day.
>
> > I just like you to know that I made a special note just now of my
> > upload speed on my ADSL2 Optus connection and it hovered on 85KB
> > per sec for the few mins it took to upload a 36MB zip file to an
> > external server.
>
> That's not too bad. Actually, for upload that is very good.
>
> Oddly enough a mate of mine just upgraded to ADSL2 and got less than he had
> before. 20KB/s or something. Turns out they had put him on a throttled plan
> by mistake. Sorted now.
>
> I think I'll stay with my cable though. A recent download peaked at 473KB
> per second, although upload is limited to 128KB/s.

128KB/sec is respectable indeed.

While OT, it would be silly not to add something:

I made a bit of an investigation of the way Optus throttle things
at the end of last month, it is quite interesting. My plan calls
for throttling back to modem speed when you go over the download
limit on the broadband. I am not a big downloader (I am a fair
uploader though) so I often have spare at the end. It is 'use it
or lose it' so I rush to get all my favourite podcasts from the
ABC and software updates...

Optus seem to decelerate the speed, it does not simply happen all
of a sudden! And I can understand why, if this is right: it would
cause too much of a shock and they could be sued for health
effects. It is incredibly slow at the very end, in fact, I get
the feeling that the engineers were so taken by the technical
problem of easing us poor schmucks into dialup-land that they
simply forgot to put the limit of 28 on. Or, diabolically,
deliberately so to encourage a higher take up of a more expensive
plan.

--
dorayme

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