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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #30 on: Mar 26, 2004, 09:43PM »
Cable Optus here

Adsl is never at the speeds they say at its peak it may get to the speed they state but rarely does. and its hopeless when you share it over a few puters

But the old saying you get what you pay for

Cable with limewire just down loaded kill bill 300mb at 95 seen it go over 100


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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #31 on: Mar 27, 2004, 05:42PM »
Still on dialup, but I'm intending to make the switch in the next month or so. The plan i'll be considering is the 1500/256 32GB Internode plan at $109.95 a month...

can't wait :D
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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #32 on: Mar 27, 2004, 05:50PM »
Adsl is never at the speeds they say at its peak it may get to the speed they state but rarely does. and its hopeless when you share it over a few puters

But the old saying you get what you pay for

Cable with limewire just down loaded kill bill 300mb at 95 seen it go over 100

I get 160-170k/s solid if the source is fast enough... and yes, it is a *256/64 pipe* ;)
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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #33 on: Mar 27, 2004, 07:30PM »
Cool as

What did you use to measure it ?

Mine was based on Lime Wire which is pretty slow as it is

But there are heaps of unknown's with programs like that to


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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #34 on: Mar 29, 2004, 08:16PM »
DU Meter (download/upload meter)

Little app that sits in the system tray and logs every byte you download, good if you have a 5GB limit like me.
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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #35 on: Mar 31, 2004, 08:40AM »
i would have to reconmend iinet for adsl
i'm currently using dialup but when i apgrade (soon) i'l be going to a 1500/256 plan @ 20gig (ithink) then its shaped to slower speeds but i can get uncapped access to pipe
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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #36 on: Mar 31, 2004, 10:23AM »
im about to start my 12GB a month internode. i wont use that much so i thought its a fair deal. its like 50 bucks a month or sumthing.

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #37 on: Mar 31, 2004, 01:43PM »
can someone explain what pipe is?

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #38 on: Mar 31, 2004, 01:55PM »
can someone explain what pipe is?

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PIPE Neworks is Australia's largest peering provider with 13 IX locations across 5 metro-IX networks. Part of this success is because PIPE Networks operates a vendor and carrier neutral environment for it's peers and provides fully redundant, state of the art layer 2/3 Ethernet switches and routers operating up to gigabit speed.

PIPE Networks is a Metro Area Internet Exchange in that it has distributed its switching capacity in areas of high customer density in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart with Canberra due to come online in Q2, 2004. As such the PIPE can connect to customers in buildings other than its main point of presence.

National ISPs
Large modern telecommunications carriers
Regional and Local ISPs
Large Web hosting companies
Public and Private Educational establishments
Medium and large corporates

So in summary, pipenetworks is an organisation that allows ISP's to connect to eachother within each state, and allows them to transfer data between eachother at a minimal cost. As a result, if you have an ISP connected to pipe, and you download data that is from another ISP that is connected to pipe, the data is 'free' and unmetered. ISP's pay an upfront cost to connect to the pipenetwork (~$5000), and then a monthly cost($1100), but it pays itself off, because they don't have to pay bandwidth charges as the data stays within the same network.

You can see who is peering within each state here:http://www.pipenetworks.com/Peering/who.shtml

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #39 on: Mar 31, 2004, 01:59PM »
thanks :), i now think even less of telstra ::)

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #40 on: Mar 31, 2004, 02:02PM »
im with telstra cable ...60$ a month 10gb cap where it goes to about 128kb/or dialup speeds. prettyu fast for most stuff ....telstra site i get upto 750kb /s when dl stuff and that doent count to dl limit whcih is great. its shared over 3 computers and no probs there. i have had cable for the last 4 years and i wont go back now to dialup .....id rather pay the extra and really cable is probably cheaper than diaplup now if u include phone calls.

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #41 on: Apr 4, 2004, 01:00AM »
Optus Cable : Currently 12GB limit (Used to be 3GB) - Limit is based on downloads, Completely unlimited Upstream

Telstra Cable : Currently 10GB Limit (Changed several times, was 550MB at one stage) - Limit is based on BOTH upstream AND downstream. so effectivly, its a lot less than you think.

After the limit is reached, speed limiters are implemented. Optus:  20 - 28.8Kbps, Telstra: 64Kbps

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #42 on: Apr 10, 2004, 01:44PM »


yup they look very good. Too bad it's not here in Adelaide :(

im on SwiftDSL and they are fantastic :D

i got 1.5MB ADSL with 8gb download on and off peak (16gb all up) and uploads arent counted. i pay no more than 80 bucks a month.. and between 4 pplz that i live with.. thats fuck all :D oh and when i signed up i only had the option of a 3 month contract.. but 6 months is still reasonable :) the plan i have has gone up to $89 p.m but the previous customers dont get moved to the new pricing.. fixed pricing rocks.. how ever.. if the pricing decreases u do go down in pricing :D

what can i say.. i went from iiPOO (iiNet Technologies) who i was with for 6-7 yrs having to deal with there ups n downs like a yo yo.. to a connection that rarely goes down.. and if it does.. its fault of telstra. i get sent sms msgs telling me that there is going to be an outage and when i can expect it to be up.. to me thats great service :D

ill stop rambling on now!

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #43 on: Apr 10, 2004, 01:51PM »
Cool as

What did you use to measure it ?

Mine was based on Lime Wire which is pretty slow as it is

But there are heaps of unknown's with programs like that to



limewire would have to one of the worst download programs out there.
get winmx or soulseek, then you will see your speeds improving. just because ur downloads go slow doesnt mean that its fault of adsl. there are plenty of lil twats that set there speeds to say "1.5MB DSL/T1" and they only have dial up.. watch out for them ;) when i down load updates for my graphics design program i get rates between 180k/s-200k/s and as stated above im on 1.5MB ADSL, it also takes a couple of minutes if that to download 10MB worth of data from a reliable source, eg. iinets ftp server i get speeds of 160k/s.  the speed of the download majorly depends on the source and then of course your connection speed is taken into account ;)

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #44 on: Apr 12, 2004, 03:52PM »
I know lime wire is sh*t (I actually know someone that paid for it and it runs even slower LOL )

I started with Napster and stopped for obvious reasons

tried lime wire it was crap looked elsewhere

Tried a few others and settled with Kazza / Grokster (I used my firewall to stop all the ad's ) and now thats over Tried that one that has the little ladybug Icon (Cant remember) Crap anyway
 so I am back to Limewire.
As for ftp I have had up to 500 k/s but have always struggled with share programs, Some game sites I download demos they clock at about 300k/s. Never had much luck with the file share programs like limewire / Napster never over 110k/s Approx
As for adsl I dont use it I have cable.   I will try soulSeek and winmx
Thanks for the info Devilsgal
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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #45 on: May 11, 2004, 10:42AM »
I have swiftel, it's not bad ,but the best thing is that is only a 3 month contract......so if you don't like it you only have to put up with it for 3 months

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #46 on: May 13, 2004, 09:17PM »
I'm unhappy with my ADSL now... went over the limit and now i'm shaped to 64/64 :P

8k/s max from 170k/s max... ah well.  Just gotta wait till the 19th for the next month!
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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #47 on: May 24, 2004, 09:31PM »
im with an internode 512/128k plan and its great. considering how much unmetered content they have availiable plus a nice ammount of game servers, i couldnt reccomend them more.  hit up http://www.internode.on.net

haha that didnt half sound like a plug for internode  :P

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #48 on: May 24, 2004, 10:36PM »
i will laos add to that plug. I have the same adsl and i find it fair sweet. downloaded about a gig today as i hadnt use then et much in the last few days. And they do have some good gaming places too. also good for ps2 online

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #49 on: Jun 1, 2004, 06:14PM »
i just connected with swiftdsl too. pretty happy with it!!! <--and thats a good indicator!! :P
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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #50 on: Jun 1, 2004, 08:03PM »
i have telstra cable, and apart from being telsra its fairly good, 69.95 per month, unlim downloads

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #51 on: Jun 2, 2004, 04:13AM »
unlim downloads

you get capped after 10gig. So much for unlimited downloads.

I think i'll keep my netspace 512 adsl where i download easily more than 110gig a month for $50... :) But then again, I am a leecher...

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #52 on: Oct 7, 2004, 09:10PM »
BEWARE OF THIS COMPANY!!!!! NORLINK!!!! my housemate had the phone on with them and now im not sure if it is even a real company!!!!

i asked to join on a 512K plan over a year with a 15gig download and when i get past 15gig i get hit to a 256k connection.for $80.00 a month and a 300 connection fee that u can pay off over 3 mths.. THATS NOT THE BAD BIT!! it took me 6 weeks to get the modem, theyre excuse was that telstra was having problems with the exchange WHICH WAS BULLSH*T because i rang telstra and they said that there has been no problems at all....after i got the modem they didnt have my email ready until 2 and a half weeks after i got the modem.. THEN i was having problems with it one night and guess what .. they have no after hours tech support... you get transfered TO THE WORKERS HOUSE!!! i got put thru to a guy n he was in the middle of dinner...and now i have my email i dont recieve any, i was promised a webspace of 5 gig and that was bullshit... LOL im raving on now but if you ever have them trying to connect you tell them to FU*CK OFF!!!!!

but i was with AAPT(i had a 256K connection with a 10gig limit for $40 a month) and they were great and so is IPRIMUS (only had dialup and they were fine)
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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #53 on: Oct 8, 2004, 12:23AM »
my internode is still cranking along extreamly well. i cant complain with it at all. especially wit hthe wireless factor. bloody gunnnn

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #54 on: Oct 8, 2004, 08:00AM »
mmmmmm wireless

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #55 on: Oct 8, 2004, 11:18AM »
yeah i love it. currently at uni right now and using wireless now. in lecture now

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Re: Who has ADSL?? Who u with? Good or bad?
« Reply #56 on: Oct 8, 2004, 03:30PM »


you get capped after 10gig. So much for unlimited downloads.


They reserve the right to cap you after 10 gig. Just keep it under 10 up until about the 20th of the month, then rape it. Ive done over 20 gig every month since ive had it and been capped once. I got to 37 before they did me over, and that was because i started at the start of the month.