[plug] adsl opinions & clarification & DSL300

[levsky at rave.iinet.net.au]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:57:06PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> I don't understand. Even 128kbps DSL (only available from Aarachnet 
> AFAIK) would be approx 3 times the speed of your current connection, and 
> the usual basic DSL plans are 256kbps (5 - 7 times the speed of yours). 
> Thats a big difference.

Yep - indeed.  And you'll find that the speed that your phone line gets
on dialup has little to do with the speed you'll get out of DSL.  I've
got a fairly crap line, which runs about 34k with a 56k modem.  With
1500/256 DSL, I'm pulling down 164kBytes/sec from most major international
sites. 

Cheers

Mark

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