[LINK] Wi-Fi

David Goldstein wavey_one at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 28 13:56:50 AEST 2011


I'm in Sydney Phil...



----- Original Message ----
> From: Philip Argy <pargy at argystar.com>
> To: Link list <link at anu.edu.au>
> Sent: Tue, 26 April, 2011 10:04:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Wi-Fi
> 
> I'm only getting 21 Mbps on my BigPond Elite plan according to
> http://www.ozspeedtest.com/ - it tests at 35.3 Mbps usingSpeednet, but
> Speednet is always a bit on the optimistic side I find whereas ozspeedtest
> is more realistic.  And as for symmetrical bandwidth, that will be the day.
> I'm getting 1.1 Mbps upload speeds on a good day with a tail wind!  Is it
> any wonder I don't have much on YouTube?
> 
> I wonder when BigPond Ultimate Cable will become available in Sydney.  Maybe
> you're on that in Melbourne, David?
> 
> Philip
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Richard Chirgwin
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 6:06 PM
> To: link at mailman.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Wi-Fi
> 
> David,
> 
> The top speed offered on BigPond cable at the moment is 100M bits/s:
> <http://go.bigpond.com/broadband/?ref=Net-Head-Int-Plans-Broadband>
> 
> Anyhow, ignoring potential errors in Speednet, YMMV. If Philip is on a
> heavily contested node, or if there's a big torrenter on the same coax run,
> it's quite feasible that he'll be complaining about poor speed from a
> service you're perfectly happy with.
> 
> Cheers,
> RC
> 
> On 26/04/11 5:50 PM, David Goldstein wrote:
> > What do you mean "if BigPond cable could just deliver a decent speed" 
> > Phil? I get download speeds of up to 150mb/s with BigPond cable according
> to Speednet.
> >
> 
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