[plug] iiNet ADSL experience

[Ryan]

As I am about to demonstrate I am by no means an authority on ADSL.

 From what I understand the only difference is where the lines terminate.
It is all still Telstra infrastructure up until it enters the IPS's network.

Your phone line connects to a CMUX at the local exchange which
multiplexes all the ADSL phone lines onto higher speed transfer mediums.
 From that point it is simply a matter of where the other end routes to.

In my case the IP is bound to my phone line, hence I don't need any
authentication, this allocation is done by iiNet, the guy who installed
it mentioned they buy/lease/rent or whatever all ADSL infrastructure
from Telstra (someone from iiNet may need to correct me there) so at
iiNet i guess it is just a load of routers etc. dedicated to ADSL traffic
similar to how normal dialins would be terminated?

In Telstra's case it goes to Victoria.  I don't know how Telstra static
IP accounts work, I presume the same as iiNet's.

Was all that best left unsaid? :)

Ryan

At 02:01 PM 5/3/01 +0800, you wrote:
>Is there anything technically different between an ADSL line from iiNet or
>someone else (Tel$tra, etc...)?
>
>ie; How much of it is the ISP, and how much is the "phone line"?