Real world experience of South Brisbane Fibre
Finally installed this morning, only 3 months later than expected.
Speeds are certainly an improvement on the 6Mbit ADSL we were on though. http://ftp.jmrit.com.au/telstra.PNG |
10:45am 27/07/12 Permalink
Is this NBN?
Is it true that button will boost your speed by 50%? How much are you paying? |
11:08am 27/07/12 Permalink
Nah South Brisbane is getting redone in Fibre because the Mater bought the exchange.
$100 for 300GB $300 for unlimited Trying the boost now |
11:14am 27/07/12 Permalink
do want, I am on a RIM and typically get <2mbps :/
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11:26am 27/07/12 Permalink
11:27am 27/07/12 Permalink
if he was on the nbn you would get 40mb up and not lazy 5mb up. Stupid Telstra!
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11:40am 27/07/12 Permalink
100 mb for 300gb is pretty decent.
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11:49am 27/07/12 Permalink
I'll take that trade scoobs. Oh you mean dollars.
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11:55am 27/07/12 Permalink
i want google's 1000mbps fibre
The service has no bandwidth cap, no overage fees, and it’ll come with 1TB of free cloud storage. damn lucky people in kansas city. |
11:59am 27/07/12 Permalink
useless info for brisbane people, but £35 a month for unlimited 100/15 fibre here, thinking about changing over
afaik the only clause on their unlimited is they (BT)shape p2p during peak hours |
12:13pm 27/07/12 Permalink
I, for one, am proud to state that I fought the good fight for decent internet back in the day for a very long time. *tips 3gb cap and wipes away a tear or two* Bring it! :p
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12:32pm 27/07/12 Permalink
slower downstream than my optus cable :)
that said, im constantly raging that optus cable has such a s***** upstream (1.5mpbs, not that 5mpbs is much better) when is australia going to get decent uploads? i could be seeding my torrents so much more effectively with decent uploads! |
12:44pm 27/07/12 Permalink
Ive had the 100mb FTTP since Feb and it's pretty awesome.
During the Steam sales i'd cap out at about 12.5mbps downloading the games from the LA server (I'd only get about 2mb from the NSW Telstra one) As far as loading other sites, youtube, facebook, news sites etc.. everything opens quickly (as expected). My only gripe is my internet f**** out every once in a while requiring a modem power off/on. Currently paying about $99 for 500gb. edit: on torrent sites for ratio requirements, I can usually get about 600kb upload too which is pretty good as far as I know. |
01:01pm 27/07/12 Permalink
cant believe ppl still use torrents lol, sif upload for ppl i use newsbins and get 20mbps down constant :)
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01:16pm 27/07/12 Permalink
Why do they always report in Mbps? It seems far more informative to report it in MB/s
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01:29pm 27/07/12 Permalink
oh the luxury of getting fibre. my businessed doesn't even have copper and won't have any broadband for the foreseeable future.
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01:54pm 27/07/12 Permalink
NBN is supposed to be completed in March next year here. Can't wait.
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02:14pm 27/07/12 Permalink
I would have said real world and speedtest are two totally different thingsspeedtest.net in my experience is a good reflection of what your service is capable of. I took it to mean, "real world" compared to the quoted speed when you purchase it. Why do they always report in Mbps?Services are usually sold in Mbps, so tests are the same so you can tell how close to your theoretical maximum the service actually is. I guess you might ask why services are sold in mbit/sec instead of MByte/sec; my understanding is it dates back to analogue modems, which would typically have to send 10 bits to communicate 1 byte (8 bits plus a start and stop bit). The raw communication link would carry X number of bits per second, and then the protocol on top of that would determine how many bytes would get through. The same is still true today, for different reasons; you wont get 125MB/second on a perfect 1000mbit link. Due to various overheads in TCP/IP and so on, its more like 120MB/sec. Reporting the link as 125MB/sec would thus likely lead to confusion about why you dont actually get 125MB/sec downloads on that link. |
03:56pm 27/07/12 Permalink
Trog you're always such a hater, must take some calories
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06:00pm 27/07/12 Permalink
I would have said real world and speedtest are two totally different things, but it's good to see you're getting at least good downstream in that one benchmark Yeah i mean he should have taken some pictures and commented on how the link interfered with his real life. My joke is linked that it's testing virtual not real (as in tangible physical). |
06:12pm 27/07/12 Permalink
Be careful, you'll be engaged in a somehow meaningful debate on why it sucked.
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06:47pm 27/07/12 Permalink
useless info for brisbane people, but £35 a month for unlimited 100/15 fibre here, thinking about changing over afaik the only clause on their unlimited is they (BT)shape p2p during peak hours How many c**** per day is 35 quid ? |
07:31pm 27/07/12 Permalink
cant believe ppl still use torrents lol, sif upload for ppl i use newsbins and get 20mbps down constant :) i cant believe people pay for downloads, holy crap they must be idiots to pay for their medias |
07:38pm 27/07/12 Permalink
How well does it stream video? (1080p)
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09:32am 02/08/12 Permalink
i cant believe people pay for downloads, holy crap they must be idiots to pay for their medias agree but work does :) |
09:51am 02/08/12 Permalink
£35 is $52.5 a month
I have virgin cable in the uk, £30 a month, 120 / 10 mbit fully unlimited. I haven't seen any evidence if p2p shaping. |
05:59pm 02/08/12 Permalink
i cant believe people pay for downloads, holy crap they must be idiots to pay for their medias Somebody has to support the poor, starving movie studios. Aren't you aware of how piracy is hurting them and their phat l00ts? itunes, lulz Just bought TDK for $7.99, bargain. |
06:07pm 02/08/12 Permalink
