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Matthew Poole wrote:

> The law states an upstream of 128kbps for the UBS product - allegedly
> because it was deemed necessary to protect Telecon from competitive from
> VoIP services - so they obviously decided that it was better to shaft
> their own customers than risk tough questions about why they pushed for a
> 128kbps upstream in legislation but were happy to give their customers
> something half as fast again.

Are you sure about that? I thought the CC set the minimum upstream speed
for UBS to 128kbps. They have also flagged (in the past) that TC show no
willingness to deliver anything more than the absolute minimum spec.
they are obliged to under the law.

Have A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:

> If the maximum speed of DSL is 8mb/s, how can you possibly get 10mb/s?

Who knows. I thought the swift plan was 2 meg?

> Also, if you are supposed to be getting 10mb/s then why is your modem only
> showing a speed of 4707kb/s

Because his modem is in the real world, like how most people never get 56k on
there dialups and most adsl2+ customers never get 24 megs...

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:18:30 +1300, Richard wrote:

>> Also, if you are supposed to be getting 10mb/s then why is your modem only
>> showing a speed of 4707kb/s
>
> Because his modem is in the real world, like how most people never get 56k on
> there dialups and most adsl2+ customers never get 24 megs...

Funny that.

Using a 56k modem, I'm currently uploading data at a speed of
<checks speed>... 5.8 kB/s.

And that's the upload data transfer rate of my 56k modem at the moment I
looked at it.


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

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Have A Nice Cup of Tea <> wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:18:30 +1300, Richard wrote:
>
> >> Also, if you are supposed to be getting 10mb/s then why is your modem
> >> only showing a speed of 4707kb/s
> >
> > Because his modem is in the real world, like how most people never get
> > 56k on there dialups and most adsl2+ customers never get 24 megs...
>
> Funny that.
>
> Using a 56k modem, I'm currently uploading data at a speed of
> <checks speed>... 5.8 kB/s.

5.8 kilobytes per second? That's about 47500 bps.

This is theoretically possible for a V.92 modem (maximum of 48kbps
upload given the right equipment at the other end). V.90 is limited to
33.6kbps upload.

If the data being sent is not compressed then somewhat higher rates are
possible, assuming the modem has error correction and data compression
enabled, since the modem can compress the data before sending it.

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David Empson

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:26:08 +1300, David Empson wrote:

>> Using a 56k modem, I'm currently uploading data at a speed of
>> <checks speed>... 5.8 kB/s.
>
> 5.8 kilobytes per second? That's about 47500 bps.
>
> This is theoretically possible for a V.92 modem (maximum of 48kbps
> upload given the right equipment at the other end). V.90 is limited to
> 33.6kbps upload.
>
> If the data being sent is not compressed then somewhat higher rates are
> possible, assuming the modem has error correction and data compression
> enabled, since the modem can compress the data before sending it.

I am aware of that. Why else would I repeat that it was the upload speed
that I was mentioning.

Of course it does not sustain that speed for the entire transfer.


Have A Nice Cup of Tea

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1/ Migration to Linux only costs money once. Higher Windows TCO is forever.
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3/ Only the Windows boxes get the worms.