When do you think ADSL will exceed 1.5 Megabits In Australia (1 Viewer)

[LadyMoon]

when cows fly!
lol.
even if does exceed it the price will be through the roof.

But currently: Go Cable!

 

[Jeo]

If you want speed.. Get cable, T1, or T3, 10/100 or 100/1000.

It costs about US$3000/month for unmetered (no download/upload limit) 10/100.

I use iinet512, and its got 16GB download. Only once have I ever hit 10GB. This is downloading movies, songs, surfing, gaming, and alot more. Uploads are free.

My school has a few 1.5 connections. Im not quite sure how it works, but you can download at about 800kb/s when no one is on. And about 100kb/s when a few other people are downloading too.

Maybe its a new sort of modem that accepts multiple ADSL, or something, I have no idea. Or maybe its not ADSL at all. But yeah, the ISP is pacific.

 

[SoCal]

I am pretty sure you cannot get a T1 or T3 connection in Australia.

My school has a 10Mbit connection, that is so fast!

 

[Ragerunner]

Cable gets quite risky.

For example, it's obvious that ADSL is a hell of a lot more popular. And the equipment is quite expensive. And they are different to Cable.

There are probably only 2 alright cable providers. Tel$tra and Optus. Optus now sucks because of cap. And you have long term contracts wheras ADSL can be only 3 months.

And if you want to switch from Cable to ADSL, you need a need modem, whereas you started with ADSL all that is left to do is simply change providers like dial-up.

In the end, ADSL is more convenient, not to meantion cable not readily being available everywhere.

Originally posted by Merethrond
I am pretty sure you cannot get a T1 or T3 connection in Australia.

My school has a 10Mbit connection, that is so fast!

I don't think your school has 10Mbit. Probably 6.

 

[SoCal]

Originally posted by Ragerunner
I don't think your school has 10Mbit. Probably 6.

No, I am sure it is 10Mbit.

 

[Frigid]

Originally posted by Ragerunner
I was lucky back in the old days when I had dialup I always connected at 53,000kb which was very good.

...surely not... 53000kbps = 51.75Mbps... crazzzy...

 

[Ragerunner]

I overclocked my modem.

 

[tonberry_kun]

kilobits mate

 

[Jeo]

Originally posted by Merethrond
I am pretty sure you cannot get a T1 or T3 connection in Australia.

You can get T1, or T3 in australia.

 

[tonberry_kun]

Most NetCafes have T1s

 

[Ragerunner]

i know. typo. but im lazy to change it

 

[SoCal]

Originally posted by Jeo
You can get T1, or T3 in australia.

Well, there you go, you learn something new every day. How fast is a T1 connection exactly?

 

[Jeo]

from memory 1.44 Mega bytes per second, i could be wrong

 

[SoCal]

Originally posted by Jeo
from memory 1.44 Mega bytes per second, i could be wrong

Megabytes or Megabits?

 

[Jeo]

bytes, up and down

 

[Huy]

To quote myself in the Connections thread (Non-School)

http://www.boredofstudies.org/community/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9525&pagenumber=3

Originally posted by Huy
T1 = 1.544Mbps
(or DS1 if you prefer calling it a DS0 multiple)

ADSL: 1.5Mbps
Cable: 10Mbps

We have T1 capacity in our homes
To be more precise, we have in excess of E2 capacity on cable lines.

E2 = 8.448Mbps

Now, UNSW (I believe) has T3.

T3 (or DS3) = 44.736Mbps

which approximates to 5-6MB/s

Carrier -- Data rate
ISDN 64 kbps - 128 kbps <-- Dialup (56Kbps) is less than this.
T1 1.544 Mbps <-- Your Net Cafe's, ADSL
E1 2.048 Mbps
T1C/J1C 3.152 Mbps
T2/J2 6.312 Mbps
E2 8.448 Mbps <-- Cable (Consumer) exceeds this value
J3 32.064 Mbps
E3 34.368 Mbps
T3 44.736 Mbps <-- UNSW
OC1 51.84 Mbps
T3C 89.472 Mbps
J3C 97.728 Mbps
T3X 134.208 Mbps
E4 139.264 Mbps
OC3 155.52 Mbps
T4 274.176 Mbps
J4 400.352 Mbps
T4E 411.264 Mbps
OC9 466.56 Mbps
T4C 560.160 Mbps
E5 565.148 Mbps
OC12 622.08 Mbps
T4X 822.528 Mbps
OC18 933.12 Mbps
T5 1.120 Gbps
OC24 1.244 Gbps
T5X 1.400 Gbps
T5E 1.680 Gbps
OC36 1.866 Gbps
OC48 2.488 Gbps
OC96 4.976 Gbps
OC192 9.952 Gbps
OC256 13.271 Gbps
OC768 39.813 Gbps <-- In my dreams

 

[Jeo]

cool,

I know time warner uses Dual OC-48... but who the hell uses OC768??! My computer probably couldn't copy internally in the same hard drive that fast.

 

[SoCal]

Originally posted by Jeo
cool,

I know time warner uses Dual OC-48... but who the hell uses OC768??! My computer probably couldn't copy internally in the same hard drive that fast.

Jeo, is Time Warner the same company as Warner Brothers?

Huy, I have see that list before. OC768 is like buying a house every month.

 

[ohexploitable]

When do you think >1500Kbps ADSL will become available in Australia?

well, by the looks of it, never???...

oh maybe in ten years time, when we're all using 3D-holo retina-displays, dressing in full e-wear, owning smart-homes and driving smart-cars...

hehe

 

[slyhunter]

Ahaha, love the bump