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Old 13-04-2008, 08:16 PM   #31
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Extremely poor effort for ADSL 2.
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Old 13-04-2008, 08:18 PM   #32
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7401 and 7404 are a lot better than the 7300 series.

After dealing with many different modems at work the only ones i would recommend are the Open 625 series the Open 824RLW (which is a rebadged billion 7402 at a lower price with a shorter warranty) and the billion 740x series, and of course cisco if your wanting to spend over a grand.

Billion 7300's seem okay for a cheaper modem but i would definitely stay away from the 5000 series billions.

Most modems seem to run OK on 1500k.. it's only when your getting up above 5mbit where some really fall over.
Definetly lots to keep in mind there. I never knew Billion had a cheaper offspring. I may upgrade my modem at some stage, but to be honest, it doesn't do too bad on the latest firmware. Have 6 computers leeching off it in this house.
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Old 13-04-2008, 08:19 PM   #33
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Extremely poor effort for ADSL 2.
why do you feel that is poor? It's an awesome connection. Don't tell that to my mother, she's in the country and pretty much stuck on dial-up, unless she wants to pay over $100 a month for wireless and next to no download allowance.
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Old 13-04-2008, 08:43 PM   #34
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I just noticed your speed. nice!. must be pretty close to the exchange.
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Old 13-04-2008, 09:07 PM   #35
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It's not bad for adsl1. Is your exchange being updated to adsl2+ anytime soon?
not for a long long time, we had all sorts of trouble getting adsl1, it was borderline, we're 5 and a half kms from the exchange, only reason we were able to get it as we were testing something for telstra and they offered us adsl, they said we shouldn't have it and tried all sorts of excuses to stop TPG from supplying us.
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Old 13-04-2008, 09:09 PM   #36
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Old 13-04-2008, 09:12 PM   #37
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on adsl2+ 24mbps .. only getting max of 1.5MB/s which absolutely sucks
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Old 13-04-2008, 09:13 PM   #38
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not for a long long time, we had all sorts of trouble getting adsl1, it was borderline, we're 5 and a half kms from the exchange, only reason we were able to get it as we were testing something for telstra and they offered us adsl, they said we shouldn't have it and tried all sorts of excuses to stop TPG from supplying us.
so is your adsl1 the 8000 version or 1500 only? Wonder if you could get slightly better speeds if they gave you full speed adsl1
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Old 13-04-2008, 09:15 PM   #39
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on adsl2+ 24mbps .. only getting max of 1.5MB/s which absolutely sucks
1.5 Megabytes / second or 1.5 Megabits? If 1.5 Megabytes, whats wrong with that? If not, than that does suck a bit.
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Old 13-04-2008, 09:20 PM   #40
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mine is on my laptop on wireless.
its 1500kbps.
il try it on the other computer soon
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Old 13-04-2008, 09:36 PM   #41
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I'm pretty far from the exchange on Telstra wholsale being resold by Optus. I sync at 1536 but limited to 512kbps.

Great sites:

http://www.adsl2exchanges.com.au/pro...p?Location=NSW

TPG's ADSL2+ speed vs distance map:
http://www.tpg.com.au/maps/
Click on your exchange.
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Old 13-04-2008, 09:41 PM   #42
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eeeeks. going to make you people jealous here. 5 meg dwnload speed. on a good day and not with too many dwnlds- a film in just over an hour. (takes longer to encode the blinkin thing- unless you're using vcd's, svcd's)
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Old 13-04-2008, 09:42 PM   #43
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eeeeks. going to make you people jealous here. 5 meg dwnload speed. on a good day and not with too many dwnlds- a film in just over an hour. (takes longer to encode the blinkin thing- unless you're using vcd's, svcd's)
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Old 13-04-2008, 09:51 PM   #44
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eeeeks. going to make you people jealous here. 5 meg dwnload speed. on a good day and not with too many dwnlds- a film in just over an hour. (takes longer to encode the blinkin thing- unless you're using vcd's, svcd's)
5Mbps or 5MBps ? 5Mbps is pretty average these days (or even under average) and I doubt you get 5MBps on a residential connection.

p.s. I assume those downloaded movies are paid for, right? ...
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Old 14-04-2008, 09:03 AM   #45
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on adsl2+ 24mbps .. only getting max of 1.5MB/s which absolutely sucks
wideband yeah?
im less than 1km from the exchange but getting max 9000k's.
cant really complain though, have had downloads run at 1mb/per second.
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Old 14-04-2008, 09:32 AM   #46
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5Mbps or 5MBps ? 5Mbps is pretty average these days (or even under average) and I doubt you get 5MBps on a residential connection.

p.s. I assume those downloaded movies are paid for, right? ...
he is from the Uk, where the broadband is actually fair, and not a rip off!
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Old 14-04-2008, 11:02 AM   #48
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Old 14-04-2008, 11:14 AM   #49
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Old 14-04-2008, 11:36 AM   #51
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so is your adsl1 the 8000 version or 1500 only? Wonder if you could get slightly better speeds if they gave you full speed adsl1
1500 only, so paying $70 a month for 50GB, pretty happy though. now just to play the waiting game till its upgraded to a ADSL2+ exchange
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im ripping in a 220 down and 54 up. almost quicker to mail the information!!
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Old 14-04-2008, 01:55 PM   #53
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im ripping in a 220 down and 54 up. almost quicker to mail the information!!
That is pretty bad.
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Old 14-04-2008, 03:53 PM   #54
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It's pretty erratic with speeds but it's hella windy on the river today... :(

And it was slower to Brisbane too, that's why I have Sydney.
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1500 only, so paying $70 a month for 50GB, pretty happy though. now just to play the waiting game till its upgraded to a ADSL2+ exchange

That's not really bad considering we used to pay alot more. adsl2+ is nice. I was happy when I got it. Be easily over 2.5 years now.
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Mine is Adsl 1500 so I recon mines tests ok...

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thats on an 8000k broadband adsl 1
i dont think thats to bad on a 4 yr old computer with no updates for a few good yrs

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my internet crashed, and closed after the download test. :(
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