Its established and agreed that that telecom is choking the system...
When did they start doing this?
About late April/ early May?

Have a Nice Day
Keith & Deby
----- Original Message -----
From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>
To: "Simon Byrnand" <simon@igrin.co.nz>
Cc: <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: 128Kb/s Upstream Throttles 2Mb/s downstream

> Simon Byrnand wrote:
> > Yes, but is that cause or effect ? Could that perhaps be because they
> > CANT upload very much traffic ? ;-)
>
> Yes, indeed... and DSL in NZ has always been steeply asymmetric, even
> the full-speed Jetstream. Not that anyone would dare to use that for up
> or even downloading anything much.
>
> The low upstream speed chokes Xtra's business as well. Recently, Xtra
> launched a digital photo printing service together with Frog Prints. Not
> a bad business idea, but how happy will customers be when they discover
> that uploading the contents of that 256/512MB SD card takes the best
> part of a day and stops all other traffic on their DSL connection? It
> makes more sense to burn the pictures onto a CD and sending that to Frog
> Prints instead, but Telecom doesn't see the fine irony in that
> unfortunately.
>
> As Simon says, there's no technical reason for the low upstream. It's
> just an arbitrary marketing decision by Telecom, nothing else.
>
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> Juha
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