The throttling to 1.5Mb, if it were true, could occur beyond the DSLAM, thus
what your ADSL modem trains to is irrelevant.

Shane's test was as unencumbered with uncontrolled variation as I think you
can get, ie, Paradise server to Paradise customer, LAN, router(s? described by
Shane as a definite throughput bottle-neck at times), ATM, DSLAM, copper,
modem, LAN (or cross-over cable), client. It would be interesting to get the
rate for a more direct connection between the Paradise server and Paradise
client.

I doubt there is any deliberate attempt to choke the service, after all, the
more you move the more you pay, but it is not cost-effective, at some point,
to provision a full 6Mb per DSLAM port.

As for the on-going comments regarding cross talk, no, it's not cat5, neither
is it *directly* shared, neither is spec'd to perform like ethernet (firstly
it is asymmetric). I would expect degradation of performance as additional
users subscribe to be *least* with ADSL.

I'm still a bit perplexed over who bills what, and if we consider Telecom
($adsl rental/$delivery traffic to ISP) and the ISP (some fixed $ from
Telecom?), what is a volume charge doing on Xtra's bill? Will that portion
not be billed by Telecom? Or, put another way, why isn't all the bill at
Xtra, why only the volume, and why at 10cents?

Hamish.

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Received on Wed May 12 14:07:35 1999