your adsl modem will not show 2mbit unless you actually have that bad
a connection with the exchange. what you see on the modem's
information page will always reflect what speed you are can achieve,
but your speed is throttled to 2mbit by telecom.

even in jetstream starter 128k days, my modem reported around 7600kb
connection. the fact that your upload speed is reduced merely
indicates that your upstream connection this time around is slightly
slower than it can be.

of course this is all IMHO =P

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:08:08 +1300, Simon Byrnand <simon@igrin.co.nz> wrote:
> At 15:44 18/11/2004, Fran wrote:
>
>
>
> >On Thursday 18 November 2004 11:16, Simon Byrnand wrote:
> > >
> > > Depends what you mean by "anniversary". My Billing cycle begins on the
> > > 18th and ends on the 17th. The usage counter has already reset to zero,
> > > but it still says Jetstream Surf flat rate and is still throttled...
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Simon
> >
> >Just checked the Usage Meter and it now says my "Next period usage plan:
> >JetStream Plus usage".
> >
> >It didn't say this yesterday.
> >
> >So hopefully this means it will change on the 15th of December then.
> >
> >Hopefully this will also mean the connection will be faster on average than
> >Surf and I won't be pulling what remains of my hair out cursing the latency
> >and wishing I was back on Surf.
>
> For the record, my line changed over to Jetstream Plus this morning, one
> day later than expected.
>
> When I checked the Jetstream usage page this morning it now says Jetstream
> plus for current and next plan. My router had been online overnight (it
> normally never drops the connection) so I checked the download speed - I
> was still getting 256Kbit, so I switched the router off and let it
> reconnect, and now I am definately getting something approaching 2Mbit.
>
> So it looks like you definately have to allow the DSL connection to drop
> and reconnect to get the new speed. (No mention of this in any of Telecom's
> information - I guess they just assume that everyone has unreliable
> connections that drop at least a couple of times a week ? ;-)
>
> Also noticed that the DSL line speed change from 7616/896 to 7616/320. A
> little bit puzzling that the upstream speed would drop but not the
> downstream, as I was half expecting the downstream speed to drop to a bit
> over 2Mbit as per Telecom's new policy of bringing the DSL line rates into
> line with the plan that you're on...
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
>
>
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