Lets see who has the slowest net connection

[Ghiadude]

ok ill set the record straight
i used to work in a fairly large telco heehehhehehe
9 times out of 10 its not your crappy line thats causing you greif. its usually a modem chipset thats trying to get a 56k connection when its on a line thats too long to support it (causing errors)dropouts
and other assorted nice things. if your getting dropped off first disable call waiting. NO. 1 cause of dropouts

If your getting a slow connection and your rural you should not get ANYTHING LESS THAN 19200. this is wrong and should be looked at.(less than 19200 anywhere in australia is... well... illegal) call Telstra country wide and they will, after much poking and proding get someone out there to do a molds test. this will show connection speed and your error count. theyll then identify your chipset(modem) and install an initialisation string to lock it to an appropriate speed. this will give you an effective 19200 connection.

pair gains systems are not what you think they are. yes they divide the bandwidth and yes you will get slower speed. the worst were 4ch digital pair gains they gave each of its 4 customers a quarter of the bandwidth 14400bps. these units have been getting phased out for years and should be replaced by RAM 8ph2's if they havnt been already.

now for rims... remote integrated multiplexer basically an optical fiber run out to rural areas to enable more people to get phone service. this is not a pair gain device (unless non integrated)

isdn will give you decent connection speeds miles from nowhere

when you buy a phone line you get what you asked for, voice transmission line with the ability to transmit data to 19200bps, thats all, nothing more, stop your whinghing!!

if you buy an ADSL,ISDN etc you get what youve asked for.., a data product.

[Quasi]

As I've told you before, Lisa, two soup tins and piece of string is not going to cut it

[NIGHTHAWK]

Originally Posted by tx3dude

ok ill set the record straight
i used to work in a fairly large telco heehehhehehe
9 times out of 10 its not your crappy line thats causing you greif. its usually a modem chipset thats trying to get a 56k connection when its on a line thats too long to support it (causing errors)dropouts
and other assorted nice things. if your getting dropped off first disable call waiting. NO. 1 cause of dropouts

If your getting a slow connection and your rural you should not get ANYTHING LESS THAN 19200. this is wrong and should be looked at.(less than 19200 anywhere in australia is... well... illegal) call Telstra country wide and they will, after much poking and proding get someone out there to do a molds test. this will show connection speed and your error count. theyll then identify your chipset(modem) and install an initialisation string to lock it to an appropriate speed. this will give you an effective 19200 connection.

pair gains systems are not what you think they are. yes they divide the bandwidth and yes you will get slower speed. the worst were 4ch digital pair gains they gave each of its 4 customers a quarter of the bandwidth 14400bps. these units have been getting phased out for years and should be replaced by RAM 8ph2's if they havnt been already.

now for rims... remote integrated multiplexer basically an optical fiber run out to rural areas to enable more people to get phone service. this is not a pair gain device (unless non integrated)

isdn will give you decent connection speeds miles from nowhere

when you buy a phone line you get what you asked for, voice transmission line with the ability to transmit data to 19200bps, thats all, nothing more, stop your whinghing!!

if you buy an ADSL,ISDN etc you get what youve asked for.., a data product.

Thanks for all of that, but before you put the gun to your head.ISDN, do i have to buy another piece of equipment,or do i have to ring telstra up to do something with this modem i have or do i have to get another line put into the house or is it something completly different all together. Now remaining quite calm remember you know about these things and i know about locks, ok I AM READY.......

[Quasi]

Put simply,

It will take installation of a second line, and a new modem.

[xespac]

I have only got a 1500/256mbit adsl connection =( - previously had a 512/128mbit connection - now i'm on 1500/256mbit I want to go faster. Once you go faster you ain't wanna go back

[Lukeyson]

damn i was spewin that ADSL 2 is gonna be like a year away from my area, i will shut up i think !

[NC 5ltr]

we know who has the slowest who has the fastest internet speed? mine is 100.0 mbps

[XplosiveR6]

i have 128kbs/128kb/s,

connection speed is boring, lets see who has the fastest ping to this web site

type "ping www.fordforums.com.au" in the command prompt (without inverted commas)

i have an average of 226ms, man thats slow, the server must be outside Aust

[NC 5ltr]

delete please

[NC 5ltr]

my average is 172ms for fordforums.com.au
256ms for fordmods.com
174ms for fordforums.com
217ms for surfwx.net

connection speed is 1500/256 kbps

[MITCHAY]

Minimum is 196ms, Maximum is 201ms and Average is 198ms on a 256/64 connection.

[XAGSV8]

Originally Posted by NC 5ltr

we know who has the slowest who has the fastest internet speed? mine is 100.0 mbps

You sure that's not your network card's speed ?

[NC 5ltr]

Originally Posted by GSWXA

You sure that's not your network card's speed ?

its the local area connection speed

[Dezza]

With the old dialup back at Gippsland, I thought the 4kb/s was bad! That was after about half a dozen attempts to connect as well! We had a dodgy phone line so we got telstra in and now it is up aroud 45-50kb/s. Much better, but still nothing compared to my 10Mb/s Broadband up here. How can you have it at 14.4b/s? That would take an hour to load each thread on this website!

[Lukeyson]

My Ping results for www.fordforums.com.au
Min : 196ms, Max : 197ms, Avg : 196ms
Damn thats slow !!!!
I pinged ford.com.au and it came back at avg 19ms !

i am on 1500/256

[luke]

i thought my lightning fast 28.8 connection was bad... i live in the suburbs and i know people in the middle of friggin nowhere that can get at least 33.6
damn telstra

[xurbanx]

i used to have 28.8 around melb's se suburbs, now adsl is i think 1500/256

all i need now is another hard drive (: