[H-GEN] Bigpond Advance (cable)

Byron Ellacott bje at apnic.net
Fri Mar 31 01:54:07 EST 2000


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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Robert Stuart wrote:

> > 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.
> 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.

Freedom is 400 kilobits; business was 500 Kilobytes.

All the values I gave above were in kilobytes.  I should be consistent in
my abbreviations.

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bje


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