Australia i would have to say is far behind in terms of internet bandwith with the rest of the delveoped world, our goverment said they will give us all 10mb/s in like 8-10 years when other places are moving towards gb/s, Australia is really far behind.
Just did the maths while i was having a shower, 850 kb/s is the max. i have a cap of 30gb/60gb off peak (12am-7am) i would only get 10 hours of max and another 20 hors in off peak of max speed, total 30hrs that has to last a month that is it roughly adsl 1 $90 AUD a month
we still have caps
850kb/s might be your max, but plenty of other people see more than a 1000. But I agree, Australian net sucks the wang.
lol! now that's multitasking!
The base infrastructure in Australia is, frankly, a joke compared to the internet standards of most industrialised nations and its reflected in the basic prices Australians are requried to pay for highspeed - which is still quite slow, frankly - internet. This hurts Australian businesses and of course the internet surfing crowd, and also gamers. The principle reason we don't see localalised servers for services such as Battle.net is because of the pathetically high bandwidth costs that ISPs such as Telstra love to charge.
The Government's optic fibre network will go a long way towards helping, however like most things down under, expect it to cost us significantly more than you'd pay - even taking exchange rates into consideration - in the United Kingdom or the United States to access those lovely highspeed lines. Companies like Tesltra are profiterring off of the lack of additional options; we have download limits, when other entire nations don't, because all the ISPs in Australia do it and they do it because we don't have any other option.
Who are you with?? I get up to 24,000kbs, though it usually hovers around 21,900 - 22.900kbs. That's ADSL2 with iinet.
To have a larger off-peak than peak quota for a much shorter period of time stinks big time... and to have to pay $90 a month for that is a rip off. I get 60gb peak and 60gb off-peak (1.00am to 9.00am) per month for $89.90... that's at full speed unless I went over quota (isn't likely, though), in which case it is slowed to 128kbs until reset.
Oh yeah, my home phone is included in the $89.90... STD and calls to mobiles extra, but still way cheaper than Telstra.
netspace cannot get adsl 2 where i live.
The reality is Australia is [roughly] the same size as the US and thus the infrastructure of telecommunications network essentially reaches as far...yet the population is less than 10% of the US.
Do those maths while you are in the shower...and similar access/bandwidth could be [reasonably] TEN TIMES as much as it is in the US.
It isn't....
Thing is, if Telstra and Optus had their way, it would be... a helluva lot more. Both charge premium prices for a lot less than other providers offer for much less. For example; I was getting 25gb at 1500kbs with Bigpond for 79.95 per month, while I'm getting 120gb at 8-10 mbs with iinet for S89.90 a month... 5 times the data at 15 times the speed, and no upload charges. With Bigpond my 25gb download quota was whittled away by upload deductions... not so with iinet, I get the full 120gb p/m regardless of how much is uploaded.
Oh, and another thing, Telstra is already complaining that it will have to charge twice the government's recommended retail price for DSL2 on the new network, while iinet, AAPT and other providers are saying they would be able to provide it for cheaper than they can now. I'm so glad Telstra did not get the contract to roll out the new network, otherwise we'd be paying through the nose for it, regardless of ISP.
And another thing that severely pisses me off about Telstra... they keep ringing and/or sending me letters trying to woo me back as a customer. I keep telling them NO, in no uncertain terms, but they persist and keep offering better and better deals, none of which come remotely close to the package I have currently. When I mention this I'm told that Telstra does not compete on price, but instead offers superior products and services. Yeah, right! I left because they are inferior... and up to 40 mins of recorded voice prompts/sales pitches when ringing to make a simple account inquiry. Never again!!!
Haha, ah Telstra. If Activision's CEO Bobby Kotick ran a telecommunications network, even it would consider Telstra's business practices questionable.
i used to get those phone calls from telstra too until one day they rang me up and I thought Id do a little lying, they asked what ip i was with i said iinet,they said how much for a month i said 40 gigs a month for 60bcks (i was lying of course) then I said, can you do better than that?
er....no i cant the telstra guy quietly replied and hung up, never rang back again......muahahhah..
i love my iinet too. xxx
What i wanna know is why Telstra thinks it is exempt from the 'do not call' register...
... they're still telemarketing, aren't they!
But the whole continent is upside down on the planet, so I would image you should all be thankful that it works at all.
The problem is that with the whole continent hanging inverted like that incredible tension is put on the lines, so it's a miracle any internet is possible at all.
Most of the bandwidth is used up inverting the images that arrive there by misdirection through the PRC and then translating the idiographs to English (your version of it, anyway).
If you can get the 'roos to stop jumping, you might see an increase in bandwidth by a slight decrease in the vibrations caused by them jumping about and jarring the servers. Putting an end to all that waltzing some sheila named Matilda might also help....
Caption for cartoon...
That's not a knife.....THAT's a spoon.
It is a bit deceptive to compare Australia or the US with countries like Korea. While a great deal of the people in the first 2 countries are concentrated on the coasts, there are still a good number spread out over a wide area as Jafo indicates. So if the coasts are wired - that still means a lot of towns are not - in both countries.
Switch to Korea where the wired households is over 90%. But then when you are living in a small nation, EVERYBODY is not far from a high speed juncture. So it looks like we are failing, when we are not really.
it also has to do with another factor. Those who will be first, will be last. In otherwords, Australia and America were netted long before most of the rest of the world, so a lot of the technology and cabling is outdated. But infrastructure cannot be ripped up every 3 years (when the mood strikes) because something better has come along. It will be replaced eventually, but the companies that put it in are trying to recover their installation costs, so it does not happen over night.
For those who have to use the World Wide Wait, it is frustrating. But I suspect you were using the Web long before Mr. Kim in Inchon Korea was.
well i'm happy with my speed, would be better if it had a larger cap though for its faster speed.
Yes but we are a day ahead of you lot
Cheers
Macca
I have a little niece named Matilda, and may we have a lot days waltzing ahead.
Looks like I will have to put up with that slow internet Doc.
Yeah, but what about the Kiwis...
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