Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> wrote:
Speak for yourself re ADSL speeds.. I'm in the inner suburbs, and still have to put up with sub-ADSL1 speeds that fluctuate with the seasons.. and then have to share said bandwidth with other members of the house.
It's not pretty.
Indeed. I'm comparatively fortunate: I regularly get well over 8 MBps on my ADSL2+ connection. Faster would be better, of course, as would greater reliability. This phone line has been patched several times by Telstra in the last five years to repair faults, and the ADSL connection still drops out occasionally. (The only way to fix this is to move to a high reliability profile that drops the speed very considerably, or to have the line replaced with a new copper pair, which Telstra aren't about to do). For dist-upgrades it's good enough, though, including large packages.