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Re: DSL gain - whats safe?

From: Simon Byrnand <simon_at_igrin.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:21:07 +1200
Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.1.20050617111928.03f2e228@pop3.igrin.co.nz>

At 11:07 17/06/2005, Juha Saarinen wrote:

>Lance Woollett wrote:
>>As for the upstream connect speed it used to be about 450 kbit, but
>>when I switched to the 2 mbit plan i noticed it was reduced to 320
>>kbit (and it never varies from that), and I distinctly seem to recall
>>someone saying that Telecom was restricting the upstream connect to
>>320.
>
>Telecom adds a bit to compensate for protocol overhead, but 320kbit/s
>would indicate an upstream of 256kbit/s or thereabouts and I don't think
>there is such a plan.

I'm on Jetstream Plus (the old grandfathered plan with 192Kbit upstream)
and my router's upstream speed is locked at 320Kbit too. Ironically I
seldom get over about 160Kbit of actual upstream throughput though...

Regards,
Simon

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