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I dont have foxtel or any alarms or fax. Exetel did change my profile to a more stable one as to eliminate the noise. But still max speed i get is 500kb. Exetel want to charge me $220 for someone to come out and have a look if they dont find anything wrong i pay the money if they do they fix it at no cost. Wonder which way the tech will go??

hamguy2

hi telstra owns the lines etc if your with them theyll service the lines telstra services all there lines even if its optus, thanks hamguy2 nsw

DND

have you got any noise in your phone ?
if so you can just ring your phone comany and tell them you are having trouble hearing people on the phone and they'll send someone out to check it

I'm on ADSL2+ with the crapest ISP you can get and I can get 1000kbs down and 100kbs up I'm about 2.5km from exchange

sinc'ing in @ around 10.5 meg

eastlake

Firstly don't bother with an ADSL 2 filter because they ar exactly the same as an ADSL filter. Think about it, the phone line goes in and is split into a low pass (for the phone) and a High pass (for the ADSL ). So there is no gain to be had.
What may be happening is that your ISP may be shaping your torrenting, some ISP's deliberately limit the available bandwidth on torrents. Do an upload and download speed test (if you do a google search you will find several good speed tests). Check the download speed tests against the connect speed as indicated in your modems WAN status. Remember that your download WAN status speed needs to be divided by 8 to get the download speed in bytes per second, and you will also lose a little bit due to the overhead required for ADSL 2 signaling protocols.

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urban_s0ulja

adsl 1 and adsl2 filters are different

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DND

heres a speedtest site Oz Broadband Speed Test - Bandwidth Test

But your better off downloading something from micro$oft with a download manager with multi parts (10) that will give you the best speed your going to get

eastlake

funny, I have an ADSL and an ADSL 2+ filter here and have tested them both on a network analyser and the high and low pass characteristics are virtually identical (allowing for component tolerances).

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z80

I reckon it's the modem.

Check that you have the latest firmware.

I installed one of those crappy TPLINK modems at my unit in Newtown and had all sorts of speed issues until I updated the firmware to the one specified for Aus. Now it's reasonable.

Hate these TPlink modems, bloody awful setup, buggy all over.

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fromaron

Good to know, I was jus about to buy one of them.
What people think is the best modem brand for ADSL2+ speeds and dropouts out of Netgear, Netcom, Belkin, Linksys or Billion?

z80

I ended up with a Billion.

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fromaron

Back to shopping board .
I will get my nacked account activated next week, will update on the speed I can achieve.

DND

I got a billion 7300G
I still get dropout but could be the ISP

z80

yeah but what about the speed?

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DND

900-1000kbs

fromaron

I ended up buying the Billion7300 modem.
Just had my nacked line account activated today and from the modem configuration ADSL menu I have download speed 21337kb/s and u/l speed is 641kb/s.
Running speedtest.net shows 15000 and 550 kb/s.
I am a bit concerned with upload speed being so low. Should I expect higher speed there and which settings to be changed in the modem to improve it?

fromaron

Updated Billion 7300 with latest firmware and bingo, the u'l speed is above 1000 kb/s.
I like the Billion modem, can recomend to anyone on ADSL2+ network. Thanks to Z80 for the tip.
BTW DND, I am running it for three days now with PAP2 VOIP adaptor and didn't have a single line dropout. You possibly right about ISP problem there.

blue^ray

according to the campbelltown to ruse via google maps which is a pretty stright line I am 4.7km from the exchange.

I only get average 200kb/sec 2mbps, and very rare but I can get a max of 300kb/sec 3mbps from a good http server.

Would it be best to go with a ADSL1 8mbps setup? as even with the ADSL 1.5mbps I am getting my current speeds (150kb/sec constant on torrents)


Does anyone know if it would make a difference if I switched from Exetels ADSL2 to Internodes ADSL2+ Extreme?

Exetel let me down with their latest support desaster with it taking them 3 weeks to get a tech out to fix the line and 4 times of reporting the problem to actually get them to do something.

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