Adsl2+ Vs Cable Internet

[sloutch]

holy roflcopter! just tested again and DL is now through the roof!

I'm jealous.. Is that cable internet or what? Which ISP?

[Ehgriez]

had a mate that worked at a school, his came out massive as well.

[FrangaR33]

I'm jealous.. Is that cable internet or what? Which ISP?

+1 who ever that is with I want in

[S1LV3RTRACKS]

holy roflcopter! just tested again and DL is now through the roof!

wow. Yeah what connection is that? Crazy fast!

[Beer Baron]

it's verizon. it's supplied by the gov for us. it's my work connection. sadly home connection is not as manly but I can tell you things are pretty damn 'zippy' at work! it's like an interweb intravenous!!

[JezR31]

Hmm it used to be a lot slower than that. Optus Cable

Edited June 4, 2010 by JezR31

[sloutch]

it's verizon. it's supplied by the gov for us. it's my work connection. sadly home connection is not as manly but I can tell you things are pretty damn 'zippy' at work! it's like an interweb intravenous!!

So it is speeds tested at work? That's not fair!

Well, we're looking at speeds tested from your home connection. Connection speeds at my work place is sky high too.

[Basti]

[Longz]

sigh with iinet its so slow...

[R31Nismoid]

So it is speeds tested at work? That's not fair!

Well, we're looking at speeds tested from your home connection. Connection speeds at my work place is sky high too.

Of course it was always going to be a commercial connection

No residential ISP would be hitting that.

Anything with major upload speed (Annex-M and above) is all business/commercial... as with any DL above around 25Mb/s

[bozodos]

it's hideously farken expensive to have one of those connections though, even for a business!

[PENGUYEN]

30mbps only works out i think to 2MB/sec in theory. So fk all over ADSL2+ but a lot more cost

Megabits/Sec isn't the same as Megabytes/sec.

Theoretically, 30Mbps should be 3.75MBps. One byte is made up of 8 bits. Therefore, 30/8 = 3.75

[R31Nismoid]

Yeah it's probably perhaps closer to 2.5

But you've gotta take into account distance from exchange and so on.

"Best possible/theory" speed and "realised" speed are generally not quite the same especially when ADSL2+ is so much so dependant on distance

[PENGUYEN]

Shouldn't perhaps be closer to 2.5. If you truly are syncing at 30mbps down. you will get 3.75+- a few bytes purely. The point at which you are getting 3.75MBps but not really downloading at the speed, is when you are receiving info from a far away server, or the server bandwidth is being loaded.

So if you were downloading from your ISP's mirror in the same city, you would be seeing 3.75. If you were downloading from a sourceforge in the US. (:

Just clearing things up if people's modem says its syncing at 30mbps, but not getting the 3.75MBps reading from their download client. (:

[R31Nismoid]

I'd love to see someone sync'in in @ 30 ... You'd virtually be living on top of the exchange

[PENGUYEN]

I'd love to see someone sync'in in @ 30 ... You'd virtually be living on top of the exchange

Hehe. What people might not know. Is that cable can get up to 50. Say if you're really close to the exchange. You'll get close to the 30's. Then on a monday morning at 4am, you go download something. You can get blistering speeds. As cable's speed depends on the users on it. (aka its bandwidth is shared throughout the exchange or the sub exchange aka kerb) Unlike ADSL, this means if you're lucky and no one's using their cable. Do a speed test then BANG. 30+ speeds. Then again. There's always the people who hog it and leave downloads going...

Ping is amazing for cable compared to ADSL >.>

[bozodos]

We have 30mb cable at work, and i've never seen it go over 2.5 megabytes a second downloading.

[PENGUYEN]

We have 30mb cable at work, and i've never seen it go over 2.5 megabytes a second downloading.

All depends on line quality, distance from exchange, and where your getting the data from. If you look closely at internet plans, they say "Up to xxMbps". (:

[bozodos]

well given that it's cable, the distance from the exchange shouldn't really matter, it's less than 1km from the Neighborhood Cable head office here, and the node box type installation is right out the front of work! Line quality shouldn't be an issue with optic fibre LOL.

[iplen]

Of course it was always going to be a commercial connection

No residential ISP would be hitting that.

Anything with major upload speed (Annex-M and above) is all business/commercial... as with any DL above around 25Mb/s

Essential disclaimer: I work for BigPond,

BP residential Cable in Melbourne is running 100mbps.... and we have had people speed test OVER 85mbps

BP "Velocity" and also the FTTP trial in Point Cook are rated similar, but have not heard any speed results yet.

This was my result, I am not in an ADSL2+ area, so I am running the "elite" 8000 speed, pretty sure I am about 800m from the exchange, running the old BP supplied "2 wire" WiFi modem,