[LINK] Fwd: Telstra's ADSL 'Fair Go'

[Fernando Cassia]

Isn't this the country of the NBN? And isn't it 2016 now? why are
people still on ADSL?

VDSL2 should be it, in areas where last-mile is still copper
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-high-bit-rate_digital_subscriber_line_2

FC

On 2/25/16, JanW <jwhit at internode.on.net> wrote:
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>>>the problem is the 'fair go' rule set into the Telstra system, the rule
>>> set slows ALL of our traffic up and down if our upload usage exceeds 80%
>>> of the the available line speed for a set period. for example, if we have
>>> a line speed of 1MBps and we upload for 30 minutes at .9MBps our
>>> downloads and uploads will be slowed to 50KBps until our upload stops for
>>> ten minutes or we reboot. Our files are large they are videos, we are not
>>> running servers or doing anything illegal, we are just trying to run a
>>> small business on bad internet and telstra are restricting our use. We
>>> have asked a contract but Telstra refuse to send it. Telstra told me
>>> there is no mention of the 'fair go' rule in the contract.
>
> Huh. Would this throttling also apply to internode customers who are
> downloading a YouTube video after about 4 minutes? I have this problem ALL
> the time now. It didn't use to. Is this something new in the
> wholesale/retail chain now?
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> Jan
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