[H-GEN] Bigpond Advance (cable)

[Robert Stuart]

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Byron Ellacott wrote:

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> > 3. What "speeds" do you get from BPA - is it a relatively "slow" link
> > from customer to Telstra?  Are these sustained speeds or "bursts"?
> 
> Telstra made a technical flaw doing my Freedom installation and put me on
> the Business plan.  I was getting 500K/sec+ to mirror.aarnet, sustained.
> Overseas maxes at about 20k/sec, I believe this is due to some other
> ``issue'' Telstra have.  When I was transferred to the Freedom plan speeds
> dropped to the 50k/sec someone else mentioned.

Hi Byron,

I just wanted to check your units when refering to 500K/sec+ etc.  Is
this KiloBits or KiloBytes?  Just that I've noticed that the BPA web
site is inconsistent.

Thanks for you replies and time. 

Regards,

-- 
Robert Stuart
Systems Administrator
Qld Board of Senior Secondary School Studies
ph: 3864 0364

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