On 15/06/14 19:26, Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 13.06.14 15:00, Allan Duncan wrote:
On 13/06/14 14:43, Toby Corkindale wrote:
In the city, even on exchanges where there is only a telstra DSLAM, you can still go with a provider who is reselling the telstra port. I would be surprised if this isn't available outside of the metro area. These are referred to as "off-network" plans when you're on an ISPs website.
May only be ADSL1 though.
Here in Tecoma (Dandenong Ranges), my ISP (Internode) provides ADSL2+. Is it a rural exchange which would limit it to ADSL1, or the 5 km line length?
5 K? Even the most pessimistic route to the extreme of Tecoma is under 3.5 Km. More likely crappy copper and joints. I'm further out than you in north Upwey, and I get 7 Mbit/s on a standard profile, which gives you the best speed at 9 dB SNR. It has not done a reset for over a week, and the RX CRC error rate is quite modest. If you are prepared to live with it falling over at least daily you can get 9 Mbits/s at 3 dB SNR, but I had a period a couple of weeks ago when I had to pull it right back to ADSL1 for a couple of days. Near end cross-talk getting into the aerial cable maybe. Belgrave has at least iinet DSLAMs, maybe some Internode ones as well - they did some scheduled work there a couple of weeks ago and put us off air for 8 hours so anything could have been changed. If you are on an iinet DSLAM and want to change over to naked there is (at least when I tried six months ago) a need to manually alter things which can leave you without ADSL for up to 5 weeks, but not for the Internode DSLAMs - stupid vs remote managed?