[plug] ADSL speed

Nadine nade at iinet.net.au
Tue Oct 26 16:39:04 WST 2004


unless your lucky enough to be on an iinet dslam then your 512 connection is
symmetrical


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Kemner" <zombie at penguincare.com.au>
To: "Perth Linux Users Group" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] ADSL speed


> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, quoth Russ Powers:
>
> > Yeah, that's pretty much how I do it. I usually get about 53kB/s. I just
asked
> > the question because my brother in the us was accessing my server and he
said
> > it wa very slow.
>
> ADSL is asymmetrical - your 512kb ADSL will have 128kb outbound
> which means your fastest upload speed will be around 15kB/s, although I
> found anything over 8kB/s would cause the latency to shoot right up.
>
>  - Matt
>
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