Internet Service Providers In Victoria

[justin911]

its dropping out / crap because your 4km from the exchange.

Anything after 2.5km is going to be crap. Telstra wont even sell DSL to a business if there further than 2.5km.

Its only because your a home user they let you have DSL, they know it will be crap, but if the 2.5km limit was in place for residential users only 1/2 the people would be allowed to get dsl.

hmm, may have to look into that. It all just worked on cable.

is there an adsl setting for "Do not dropout and require a modem reboot"?

[funkymonkey]

You need a good ratio for ultimate speeds...

For those legal content, invite-only sites i use they do at least... lol

I like my 1.4MB/sec+ with approved/sanctioned content

just lie about how much legal content you're really sharing, not hard to dupe a tracker. I upload at 1kbps, my tracker thinks I'm uploading anywhere between 100kbps and 3kbps randomly at any moment (no fixed multiplier + constant seeder status = baller VIP legal content status). To offset this I make it stop seeding after I've really uploaded 1% of the legal content I just downloaded. That way my ratio of download to upload is always around a normal amount that any noob would achieve, hence not triggering any alarms in the logs.

[IOWNU]

Ali - be very careful with Naked - often your UPLOADS count to your monthly quota, so if you are using it to download legal movies from paying sites... and you are sharing those back... then you will get stung double.

EG:

Naked. 4gig down and 4 gig up = 8gig total quota used

Normal. 4gig down and 4gig up = 4gig total quota used

So you need to double your monthly quota if you intend to use the connection a lot

A lot of people dont fully read what they are getting into. IMO if your getting a 40GIG+ plan, you're getting it to download/upload so Naked is a joke.

Also Ali, the iinet website will tell you when ADSL2+ is coming to your area... but ye, if they are full of connections @ your exhange not a lot you can do other than wait for someone to disconnect as each exchange has a limited amount of ports and some ISP's do not have any equip in the exhange meaning you cant go with them until the 'roll out'.

ADSL2+ is taking a while to roll out to the outer burbs when you consider i've had it inner suburban for 4+ years now. That really is a VERY poor rollout time, but then it is based on demand as infrastructure @ the exchanges, of which inner burbs have a lot more than outer in many instances

Thanks for all that Ash! Appreciate it. I'll let you guys know how I go.

[xALmoN]

I reckon i will be going with iinet soon.

My girlfriend's dad got the optus fusion plan before i came over, 20gb is just not enough, and for $99, even with a land line, its not good enough.

But there is over $400 in termination fees to pay, and they are even taking the modem back. I wonder why. If they didn't take the modem back, i wouldn't have felt so sore.

[(B1) MR_fanny]

apologies for the hijack but i'm on the old optus cable plan of 12g peak 24 offpeak for $67. I see all these new 50-80gig adsl. is there anything that's a better bundle going around then what I'm on so far in terms of reliability and speed? all the current cable plans just don't seem to be any better.