[plug] adsl opinions

[Craig Ringer]

> ADSL is continually touted by Telstra as a "best effort" service. If 
> you've ever dealt with Telstra you can imagine what "best effort" means 
> to them.

Well, we've got this lobotomized year-10 drop-out and we think he'd make 
a really good head for the ADSL services department....

> ISDN on the other hand is a guaranteed service.
> With ADSL you have no such guarantee of uptime, throughput or latency. 
> They can over-subscribe an exchange (eg. Bateman) and still be providing 
> the service they've sold you.
> ISDN on the other hand gives you a guaranteed throughput circuit (data 
> calls are flagged as priority on the telephone network).

... but as far as I know no-one USES data-call ISDN but rather DoV since 
Telstra's pricing is so totally insane, yes?

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Craig Ringer
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