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stui magpie 
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http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,22410490-462,00.html
I'm on the Bigpond extreme package, and to upgrade to the higher speed all I had to do was reset my modem. No additional charge or change of plan.
Ran a speed test before using one of the speedtest sites. Download speed of 3mbps and upload speed of 1mbps. Pretty happy with that considering the max speed quoted is never what you actually get.
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Dave The Man 
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How Much Those?
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stui magpie
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I pay $70 per month. Speed is throttled after 10 gig but no additional charges. Might not suit someone who does a hell of a lot of downloading, but I rarely get close to the 10 gig limit.
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Piethagoras' Theorem 
the hypotenuse, is always a cakewalk
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I'm on the same package stui, how did you reset your modem?
Mine's the Motorola surfboard SB5100, is yours the same one?
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Proud Pies 
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funnily enough i changed to extreme at midnight last night, not knowing about this......not sure i noticed anything different this morning from the ordingary broadband cable, but i might turn the modem off and on again tonight and see.
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stui magpie
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| frankiboy wrote: | I'm on the same package stui, how did you reset your modem?
Mine's the Motorola surfboard SB5100, is yours the same one? |
I got the Motorola SBG 900 wireless modem. Just pull the power plug out, wait 10 seconds the plug it back in.
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Piethagoras' Theorem
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lol, I should've figured it was that simple stui 
Downloads stayed pretty much the same for me but my uploads increased by about 400% on average 
The Melbourne server where I'd normally test was down so I used the one in Canberra, that may've affected the download result, I'm not sure
All in all averaging speeds of around 20 000 kbps / 1100 kbps 
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Proud Pies
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Your line speed is 3.64 Mbps (3637 kbps).
Your download speed is 455 KB/s (0.44 MB/s).
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John Wren 
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Joined: 15 Jul 2007
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far out, we get robbed over here something shocking.
d/load: 1676 kb/s
u/load: 118 kb/s
it's been well documented and publicised we have 3rd world broadband.
$60.00 for 10g with telecom which is telstra equivalent.
one thing though, i'll miss the free local calling charge.
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London Dave
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Joined: 16 Dec 1998
Location: Iceland on Thames
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| stui magpie wrote: | http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,22410490-462,00.html
I'm on the Bigpond extreme package, and to upgrade to the higher speed all I had to do was reset my modem. No additional charge or change of plan.
Ran a speed test before using one of the speedtest sites. Download speed of 3mbps and upload speed of 1mbps. Pretty happy with that considering the max speed quoted is never what you actually get. |
Still getting ripped off. |
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stui magpie
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What do you get in London Dave?
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Joel 
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I pay $60 pm with Internode on ADSL2 - 20GB, plus I'm close to the exchange so speed is around 23mbps.
Telstra is a ripoff. Stear clear, at all costs. |
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London Dave
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Joined: 16 Dec 1998
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| stui magpie wrote: | | What do you get in London Dave? |
double what you get, no limits/throttles £14.99 a month, but there are better deals around I'm led to believe.
Sky (satelleite TV) do a free 2mb connection for subscribers, i think an 8mb costs a fiver and 16mb a tenner.
We've never had download caps here..... but the agin, the govt. here has been a little more clued up on internet/digitl thangs than its counterpart down under. |
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Joel
Joined: 23 Mar 1999
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| It costs more for the backhaul to Australia than it does to the UK Dave. |
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London Dave
Ješte jedna pivo prosím
Joined: 16 Dec 1998
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but then again, I'm so happy with my ISP I'm changing it!
| Joel wrote: | | It costs more for the backhaul to Australia than it does to the UK Dave. |
True Joel, but that really doesn't have much to do with the lme-o digital policies introduced by the present govt (and seemingly written by/for the 'old' media owenrs!) |
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