At 09:10 p.m. 22/11/2006, you wrote:
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Raimund Eimann" <raimund@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
>To: <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:17 PM
>Subject: 256k unleashed?
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've got several 256k/40GB plans and at least 3 out of four are going at line
>>speed, delivering download speeds from OZ (mirror.pacific.net.au, for
>>instance) of up to 500kbytes/s. The router shows bitrates of 4800 kbit/s down
>>and (an unchanged) 160 kbit/s up.
>
>Telecom is putting all the DSL lines to as fast as they can go and then do the rate limiting on the RANs. (This is how things used to be a few years ago).
>
>I guess with some people the rate limiting is not happening at the RANs properly.

Hmm but they're still doing the upstream rate limiting using the Dslam (and probably the RAN too)? Mine is still 160k too even tho my downstream is AFAIK fast as it can go (well it's faster then it should be)

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