ADSL 2+ question

Insert2Coins on 19/09/2013 - 08:40

I've been paying for telstras 200gig ADSL2+ liberty packages and I haven't ever gotten passed 1.5mb/s, is this a good and average speed? Or should I be getting faster than this? I live approx 1.4km from the closest exchange

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  • c64 on 19/09/2013 - 08:50
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    do you mean 1.5 Mb/s (Mbits/s) or 1.5MB/s (MBytes/s)? people often confuse the two and there is a significant difference

    what are the sync speeds and snr reported by your adsl modem

  • geek001 on 19/09/2013 - 09:20
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    yes, what mattgal said. To make things confusing, most ADSL speeds are quoted in Mbits/s when you sign up for a plan and when you download things on your computer, the speeds are measured in either Kbytes/s or MBytes/s.

    1Mbytes/s = 8Mbits/s. so IF you are getting 1.5Mbytes/s, that would be equivalent to 12Mbits/s. I am not sure if that is good or not by Telstra standards, but that would be faster than what I am getting on TPG.

  • _Bruce_ on 19/09/2013 - 09:52

    Try speedtest.net.

    I am at 1.5K from the exchange and sync at 11mbps download. This translates to about 1 MB/sec actual downloads. 1.5MB/sec actual data download speed is pretty good for ADSL.

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