[LINK] Labor to deliver lightning internet speeds

[Jan Whitaker]

At 01:00 PM 3/03/2008, Roger Clarke wrote:
>My impression, sitting on my 1Mbps ADLS is that 256Kbps is a fairly 
>common experience of delivered bandwidth to end-users.

I have a 512/128 service. It's normally running at the higher end 
when I take the time to watch it. I know downloads come at the top 
end because I do watch those come in.


>[Aside:  TPG says that they are about to upgrade me to ADSL2, at 
>their choice not mine, at a time of their choosing, with what 
>appears to be extremely poor planning, extremely poor client 
>communications, and ongoing slow response to enquiries and 
>complaints.  Heaven knows what will happen in the next few days ...]

That's not good. Some people may have older modems that aren't adsl2 
capable. Did they even ask you? Are they also going to charge you more?

Jan




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