Internet Speeds in MacGregor?

wildturkeycanoe said :

I am in the new Macgregor and have constant line speed of 9.8Mbps, Download speed of 1MB/s with Telstra ADSL2. It’s okay for our day to day stuff but like mentioned, it takes a good hour or so to download a T-box movie. I’ve tried online gaming too and keep getting kicked off their server because my line speed is too slow. That really sucks in a new suburb of our capital city. No fiber either. This is as good as it gets. I have heard through the rumor mill that the Melba exchange is being upgraded for the NBN. Maybe that will help with things a bit.

NBN is more about the cables to the house than upgrading exchanges, as the wires are the limiting factor at present. So not sure where you heard Melba was being upgraded to NBN, especially as the area served by Melba is still 2 years off getting it and besides doesn’t help in Macgregor which is connected to Scullin.

somewhere_between_bundah_and_goulburn said :

Supposedly the new part is getting connected to the NBN. – http://www.nbnco.com.au/rollout/rollout-map.html

Fantastic, this made my day. I’ll be moving into a Stage 4 home, so hopefully homes in that area will get the same NBN treatment as Stage 1… I’d expect so in a high density area. Thanks!

Truthiness said :

You know South Korea has faster speeds than the NBN *on their phones*?

Not really.

They either use the WiBro variant of WiMax (here, Vivid Wireless uses WiMax) or LTE (like Telstra 4G) or HSDPA (3G.) Real speeds experienced by the South Koreans are not faster than the 100/40 plan offered on NBN.

They certainly can’t offer the 1000/1000 that NBNCo hardware is capable of today (old ONTs in Tasmania excepted.)

I live in old macgregor. We’ve had TransACT since 2003 and it has been pretty good. Cheapest package also includes pay TV and an extra phone line.

Oh, I forgot: If you’re going to West MacGregor, some parts already have NBN!

http://www.nbnco.com.au/rollout/rollout-map.html

Stage 1 already has it, others are “commenced”

Before you ask “who is the best?” you need to find out who’s available. Your speeds will be dictated by what’s available your specific address. This will differ from street to street – not just suburb to suburb.

Find your new address (or existing phone number at that address) and put it into a site like http://www.adsl2exchanges.com.au/ to find out what is available there.

You may be stuck on a RIM, perhaps with Zero ports available – http://www.adsl2exchanges.com.au/viewsuburb.php?Abbrev=MACGRGR

There may also be other providers to consider like TransACT who could offer a different kind of connection like VDSL/VDSL2 (“cable”) – check via their website or call them.

JC said :

Are you moving to the old bit or the new bit?

The new bit. Brindabella at Macgregor. Down the back, near the water desalination plant thingy, across the stream from Dunlop.

dvaey said :

Once you get to these sorts of speeds, its generally not just the ISP limiting you, but the sources youre using. Who wouldnt be happy with over 1mb/sec anyway.. what a shame you might have to wait a minute to download the latest lady gag CD or at worst 10 for a movie.

The kicker is that you want fast internet, because your 8mbit isnt fast enough, but still want an unlimited service.. I keep remembering a quote about the first world…

Clearly you have never tried to run a home server of any sort, let alone multiple servers. You do know the internet is useful for more things than just surfing the web right? At any given time I could be seeding a dozen Linux distributions, a hundred open source movies and tens of thousands of open source songs, while running a web server, an i2p server and any number of web applications. And that is just one computer, there are six in the house, and there are only two of us. I’ve been in group houses with 20+ computers, all sucking down as much information as they can possibly get.

I can gaurantee I will eat through every ounce of extra speed I can get, the NBN is no where near fast enough for the kinds of things I *could* be doing given half a chance. You know South Korea has faster speeds than the NBN *on their phones*?

Just because you don’t have the imagination or the know how to use more than 1mb/sec, does not mean the rest of us are similarly impaired.

wildturkeycanoe said :

I am in the new Macgregor and have constant line speed of 9.8Mbps, Download speed of 1MB/s with Telstra ADSL2. It’s okay for our day to day stuff but like mentioned, it takes a good hour or so to download a T-box movie. I’ve tried online gaming too and keep getting kicked off their server because my line speed is too slow. That really sucks in a new suburb of our capital city. No fiber either. This is as good as it gets. I have heard through the rumor mill that the Melba exchange is being upgraded for the NBN. Maybe that will help with things a bit.

The T-Box won’t let you watch a movie while it is downloading (no buffering)? I thought the T-Box had adaptive bitrate streaming.

In terms of getting dropped from online games, line speed has nothing to do with it if you have any ADSL. Connection quality is the issue (from you to the exchange to the game server). Does your ISP have ADSL 2 profiles you can select via their website? Maybe choose a more reliable profile rather than the fastest speed possible profile? If I got disconnected from game servers often, I’d call my ISP and complain.

I’m on 8Mbit ADSL 1 (speedtest shows 7Mbit actual speed) and ever since Telstra Wholesale upgraded the “RIM” (upgraded the link from the “RIM” to the exchange from 8Mbit to 155Mbit) I’m on about 2 years ago, I only remember disconnecting from a game server (Starcraft 2 US server) once, with that occurring when drop hacks were being used a few patches ago. The connection has been remarkably reliable in that and other online games.

I am in the new Macgregor and have constant line speed of 9.8Mbps, Download speed of 1MB/s with Telstra ADSL2. It’s okay for our day to day stuff but like mentioned, it takes a good hour or so to download a T-box movie. I’ve tried online gaming too and keep getting kicked off their server because my line speed is too slow. That really sucks in a new suburb of our capital city. No fiber either. This is as good as it gets. I have heard through the rumor mill that the Melba exchange is being upgraded for the NBN. Maybe that will help with things a bit.