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Hi Guys

I saw this discussion some days ago, and I started running some tests with the FIOS tool – result below.

I have a 12 Gig limit Cable connection (AUS $70.00 per month) from Bigpond, (Australia’s largest ISP) with an advertising talking about 30Mbps speed. – See below.

I have also an ADSL connection on 25 Gig maximum traffic (AUS $80.00 per month.

(Surprisingly I now found that my ADSL is faster than my Cable connection?!?!)

This is so called “unlimited connection” meaning that I don’t have to pay for excess usage, what happen is that my connection speed is slowed to 64 kbps (or in reality probably a lot less) when I exceed the limit. This – more or less - shuts down my internet, I’m unable to open many slow sites, including my ISP home page, and if someone sends me an E-mail on 1MB + then Outlook will time out and my E-mail service is blocked.

Below bigpond is talking about downloading an 850 MB move in less than 6 minutes – and at a cost of $29.97. Well, in Australia you get a total traffic allowance of 200 MB per month for that price, when you exceed the limit they charge you AUS $0.15 per MB!!

It’s not unusual that people get invoices on $1,000.00, $2,000.00 and even over $3,000.00 for a month of internet usage.

This is Australia for you!!  --  So enjoy your 21^st century internet connection, real internet speed is a distant dream for Australians.

Cheers  - and have a great weekend...


Olle.
 

Speed Test: 18/10 4:20 Am                Cable            DownLoad: 0.858 Mbps          UpLoad: 0.125 Mbps

Speed Test: 18/10 5:30 Am                ADSL            DownLoad: 0.968 Mbps          UpLoad: 0.213 Mbps

Speed Test: 18/10 6:45 Am                Cable            DownLoad: 0.780 Mbps          UpLoad: 0.122 Mbps

Speed Test: 17/10 9:55 Am                Cable            DownLoad: 0.832 Mbps          UpLoad: 0.124 Mbps

The system slowed down remarkably so I did another check And test.

Speed Test: 1:10 Pm       Cable          DownLoad: 0.043 Mbps              UpLoad: 0.025 Mbps

Switched off the ASDL for a few days. – Checking speed the 16^th October:

Speed Test: 6:15 Am       ADSL          DownLoad: 0.386 Mbps              UpLoad: 0.215 Mbps

Speed Test: 6:45 Am       Cable          DownLoad: 0.276 Mbps              UpLoad: 0.125 Mbps

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