Hi everyone,

There is definitely not a cap, only traffic shaping. I am confirming this with networks and will let you know if something has changed that they haven't mentioned. I was downloading 5 x MP3's and the Descent 3 demo the other night and got peaks around 1.5 - 2Mbps. My total for this month is 620Mb so far.

Mark :-)
Mark Barlow :-)
ADSL Manager
e: mark.barlow@telecom.co.nz

>>> "Dan Langille" <dan.langille@dvl-software.com> 12/May/1999 11:38am >>>
Shane Cole wrote:

>Just got our test circuit for ADSL in, downloading Quake 3 test it was
>getting 100K/sec off local server on Paradise Net, I asked the installer
>'WTF? - thats not 6Mb down' and he said they are all capped at 1.5Megs now.

It is a common misonception that because ADSL has the ability
to do 6M, that you will experience 6M. I also think that the marketing of ADSL
does nothing to correct this misconception. Who has the original ADSL trial
brochures about?

>Anyone using the Nokia and not the NEC care to confirm this is the case with

>there connection now, that is, if anyone has any of there 300megs left they

>care to waste anyway, do a download of ftp.xtra.co.nz and tell me what you

>get.

FWIW: With my old NEC, I was able to have three ftp sessions uploading at about
30K/s each and one downloading about about 20K/s to give about 100K/s throughput.
 And when I tried downloadeding Quake from XTRA, the rate steadily climbed to
187K/s at which point the download finished.

Here is my test:

ftp> get quake106.zip
local: quake106.zip remote: quake106.zip
227 Entering Passive Mode (202,27,184,38,19,95)
150 Data connection accepted from 210.55.152.128:1642; transfer starting for
quake106.zip (9094045 bytes).
100% |***************************************************************************************************|
 8880 KB 00:00 ETA
226 Transfer completed.
9094045 bytes received in 84.12 seconds (105.57 KB/s)
ftp>

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Dan Langille
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