[plug] adsl opinions

[nicol]

ISDN is good technology, just extremely overpriced (compared
internationally), one assumes, to protect tel$tra's profits.

My limited experience with optus is thus:  Their 2Mbs/512Kbs service is
blindingly fast.  I was at a clients, swapping over from t$ to optus, and
there was an Optus/XYZ technician there. (I don't quite understand who XYZ
are, but they seem to be optus.  The adsl modems have XYZ on them).

The modem was having problems, optus had detected this (no call from the
client, as they didn't even know), their systems had raised a trouble-ticket
and sent a tech out to fix it.  I was impressed.

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Luke Dudney [mailto:plug at apophis.net]
>  Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 5:16 PM
>  To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>  Subject: Re: [plug] adsl opinions
>
>
>  Not necessarily.
>  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.
>  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).
>
>  This is all based on Telstra's offering. I have had no experience with
>  Optus's or heard of the services you've described here, so I can't say
>  if the same will be true for those.
>
>  Cheers
>  Luke
>
>
>
>  Martin wrote:
>
>  >that's so funny i almost fell off my chair.
>  >
>  >ISDN is the technology that is going to go by the wayside. optus have
>  >started to offer products which include multiple phonelines and/or data
>  >connections over ADSL rather then ISDN/Onramp/E1...
>  >
>  >i'd check that the people your talking to haven't just come back from
>  >Telstra's "Marketing An Obsolete Technology 101"...
>  >
>  >marty
>  >
>  >--
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>  >You look to ones you love to ask them why?
>  >You look to ones you love to justify, why?
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>  >Passed you by again.
>  >
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>  >
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