[wellylug] Telstra Clear performance: (WAS: broadband recommendations, etc).

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com
Tue Sep 11 18:44:05 NZST 2007


On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:32 +1200, Centurion Computer Technology (2005)
Ltd wrote:
> > Depends on the cable plan you want.
> > 
> > The two lowest cable plans require you to purchase a phone line
> > services, but if you go for a higher plan, you can get it without. (eg:
> > I don't have a telstra phone line with my 10mbit plan)
> > 
> Jethro,
> 
> How is the performance on you TC cable connection.  I  have one at work
> (10Mbit cable) and it's performance is very poor.  Connections to
> ftp.nz.debian.org is only at about 160kB/s where as my home maxnet ADSL
> does 400 - 700kb/s.  I find that I can't seem to get anything at all
> above 400kB/s.  I am actually considering dropping it altogether and
> going to another maxnet ADSL as it seems to be more reliable and heaps
> faster for NZ based traffic.

I can get about 8.9mbits down and 2.1mbits up, when I last checked. But
this will really depend on the speed of the remote server - a lot of
servers have only 2mbits connections....

The performance can really go down if the local cable network is
overloaded though - I know some people who get really shite performance
during business hours down in Kilberne.

I guess I don't have too many heavy using neighbours! :-)

-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog

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