[nzlug] Broadband bandwidth drop: WTF?

[Mark Foster]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Bob Harvey wrote:

> There's an unambiguous tester at:
> http://www.consumerspeedtest.org.nz/speedtest.php
> and it is in kilobits-per-second.
>
> As far as I am aware all Telecom DSLAMS are limited
> to an upload speed of 128kbps unless specially configured.
>

Hi Bob, a note - please post with your subscribed address. I manually 
approved your post this time around but will likely wind up blindly 
dropping it in future.

Respects your post,
Can you provide a reference or citation for the 128kbps limitation? 
Surely these days it should be tied to the plan you're on - given that 
there are providers offering 'Full Line Speed' (in both directions) as an 
option?

http://www.xnet.co.nz/hsi/ as an example; you nominate your upload and 
download speeds when you select your plan.  All ports limited to 128k 
seems like an 'old' answer to me, and largely irrelevant if the plan 
you're subscribed to has >128k upload cited, then that is what must be 
supplied.

(from memory a 128k upload speed only gives you fractionally over 2Mbit 
download speeds... ah yes... view here for a lovely throughput calculator:

http://www.wand.net.nz/~perry/max_download.php )


Mark.