im on the phone to iinet right now switching from telstra! by by telstra, hello iinet! HOORAYZEE.

i would like a medal and a chest to pin it on.

Its bye bye and you can have a cookie instead.

get some IICandy it pawns

welcome to the dark side..

im going to do it as well
no dramas with optus, i just want to go faster

checked if they have free ports at your exchange?

wooloongabba has 937 free ports currently

im turning ghey!

eep how do i check for free ports ?

where else?
whirlpool.net.au
phone number in top right corner

a mate of mine has just switched to iinet and his speeds sark

something to do with his exchange though

also, check directly on the iinet site if your exchange is dslam ready
http://www.iinet.com.au/dslams/updates/

last edited by Spook at 19:27:37 19/Apr/05

new farm is so hot right now

1007 ports available

rockin

good work matey

report back how it goes! (i wanna see speeds higher than 1500/256)

I have had adsl for like 6 years. We were always connected to the gabba exchange, afaik the bulimba exchange wasnt around when we connected with telstra. Would we of changed automatically to the bulimba exchage since it is closer? Or is that just so crazy that you would die?

im turning ghey!

still with telstra, huh?

my area is l33t

Ports: 1510 ports available

s*** yeah! pity my phone lines are the suck, there's hissing when you talk, if it rains dialup speeds drop right off and connections sometimes drop so yeah I doubt DSL would be much use. Underground phone lines so I doubt anyone is in any hurry to fix them properly.

if it rains dialup speeds drop right off and connections sometimes drop so yeah I doubt DSL would be much use

You should lodge a fault with Telstra as this should *not* happen and is their responsibility to fix.

By the way, welcome to iiNet d0mino. Hopefully you'll be migrated to an iiSlam when they're installed in New Farm.

last edited by parabol at 20:32:58 19/Apr/05

w00t 0 free port available at Warner.

I did the dark side turn about 18 months ago now when I bought my house, and now iinet has home phone plans I dont pay telstra a cent directly.

I'm on the iinet DSLAM at the Eight Mile Plains exchange. I'm connected at 6000 - not close enough to get the full 8000, but still damn quick!

How much is the installation/modem?

Installation is $99 or you can sign a 24-month contract and have it waived. If you break contract, the only thing you pay is the $99 setup fee that would have been waived had you stayed with them.

Plus .. don't buy a modem from iiNet, it's not worth it. Buy them cheaper from somewhere like Umart. $90-130 for a decent one. Make sure it's ADSL2/2+ compatible, unless you are absolutely sure your exchange won't get iiSlammed.

last edited by parabol at 22:05:23 19/Apr/05

free if u join for 24 months

orbs, what does the iinet page tell you about your speed when u put your number in?

all it tells me is that im eligeble for broadband, would it say broadband2 if it was available to me?

wooloongabba exchange is enabled

iiBroadband2 is just the marketting term for their current set of plans (1.5-8Mbps). You can't get the old plans anymore. It doesn't mean ADSL2 or 8Mbps or anything either. Just market-speak.

Also, you sometimes can't tell if you can definitely get broadband until you apply and wait for a Telstra tech to test your line and connect you .. if there's lots of line noise or some sort of incompatible infrastructure, but I hear they have systems in place now that can detect the latter as to not waste your time waiting for connection only to find out you're rejected. Call and confirm!

last edited by parabol at 22:10:18 19/Apr/05

speaking of which i need to get a 2nd phoneline and get my own damnd broadband connection... ppl i'm living with refuse to give up their bigpond accound *grumble*

Still hoping that one day bpa gets something like optus yes time on cable =/

orbs, what does the iinet page tell you about your speed when u put your number in?

all it tells me is that im eligeble for broadband, would it say broadband2 if it was available to me?

If I recall correctly, all it said was that I was eligible as well. However, if your exchange has been DSLAM'ed then iinet will definitely connect you to their equipment and you'll get the full speed ADSL. How close you get to the 8000 peak speed depends on the quality of your phoneline and your distance from the exchange.

My broadband saga is pretty painful to talk about, I'm currently trying to investigate my chances of getting onto a non-telstra dSLAM, however, I also recently discovered that If you are on a RIM, or other Incompatible ADSL Infrastructure, you cannot get onto a non-telstra DSLAM, even if they have mini-mux'ed it

My exchange MGAT (Mt Gravatt) is a fair way away from me anyway, as the crow flies, about 3KM, so, I wouldn't be getting 24MBps anyway, but... and this is the confusing bit...

MGAT has a Sub-Exchange, called CDEU (Carindale???) I havent figured out where it is yet, nor if I am on it... I'm also pretty sure I'm on a RIM, and I know where it is, because about 12months ago when I first applied for ADSL, I think I got rejected because of it. However at the time, it was suposed to be being mini-muxed...

Basically, I think I might have to move before I get rid of Telstra cable, as I'm not going from 10MBIT to 1.5MBIT, and I cant get optus cable, as it doesnt run down my street.

Oh well...

rockin;
im pretty close to my exchange, like a few kays

phone lines will be pretty dodge though!

Mongie i think that 1.5mbit dsl is pretty comparable to telstra/optus cable because you have twice the upload bandwidth. Of course downlads are only up to 160k/s oposed to 800-1000k/s but 160k/s download are decent considering you can get 26-30k/s uploads constantly.

I definately would not go back to a 512 k connection. 1.5's are just sooooooooo much faster whne doing regular browsing / internet usage.

i think i will too (for work) just to be cool. optus cable still winz though.

my main beef with optus cable is
12 gig aint enuff (me and decimate share a connection, we are far from warez monkies, i download music sets, pron and wierd s***, he plays bf lots and downloads a bit of music and we've hit our limit a few times)

and their 32k service is beyond s***
its practically unuseable

ok, and wooloongabba isnt on dlsam yet, but will be real soon

good enuff i guess!



last edited by Spook at 19:35:16 20/Apr/05

hey look mom!

im posting on iinet

anyone know where they hide their speed testers?

i wanna see how fast this biznatch is with my new nb5 modem!!!!

Get back to work you fagort, sif scared of a little bit of abspestos(sp)

yeah spook ftp.iinet.net.au/speedtest
or whatever the file is.. check yourself :)

also try something from the aarnet mirror and something from hahs.nsw.gov.au if you can get to it :)

yup, more intestest in upstream
we've been busting out 700k/s odd on the download from iinet

i wanna see my upstream in all its goodness

cya optus carpy 128k upstreamM!!!!!

on the upload

http://members.iinet.net.au/~davidbroughton/wordtoyormoms.JPG

edit: whats that f***ing smell?!?!?!?


last edited by Spook at 16:33:35 25/May/05

yeah spook ftp.iinet.net.au/speedtest
or whatever the file is.. check yourself :)

^ Don't rely on that for a speed test! Some people get full speed, others (myself included) can only get 60-100KB/s max, especially in Brisbane due to some dodgy routing from the FTP server in Perth.

For a more reliable test, try a file from the Bigpond FTP:

ftp://ftp.bigpond.com/pub/games/Quake2/patches/q2-3_20-x86.exe (5MB towards quota)

You should max out your connection with only one stream. You shouldn't have to segment your downloads to get full speed. If you need to, then there is a problem with your connection.

Post speeds below!

I just took a dump in this thread...

oh, its boxhead

we were getting approx 700+ k/s downloading files from iinet
92k/s upstream

im pretty happy with both

thats f***ing pwnage spook

I wish I had that sorta upstream :/

yar, redhat in sydney cant get dslam goodness either
i dont know why u mexicans bother with down there eh?

Hey, Spook, what speed are you syncing at (in router/modem statistics)? 7.5Mbps? I can do about 7.2, maybe more if I align my cables correctly.

Though with all that speed and quota, I quickly ran out of interest in actual downloading, what a shame :/

last edited by parabol at 20:51:18 25/May/05

how do i tell what speed im syncign at?

only just got hooked up this arvo and have been testing speeds with downloading files and uploading files to webspace

from my router page

Modem Status
Link Status Connected
Us Rate (Kbps) 1024
Ds Rate (Kbps) 7616
US Margin 11
DS Margin 9
Modulation MMODE
LOS Errors 0
DS Line Attenuation 45
US Line Attenuation 42
Path Mode Interleaved

boooya

Man you’re lucky to be syncing at 7mbit/1mbit with those attenuations!
Also if you can turn off interleaving in modems setting will see lot better latency to your first hop.

I'm pretty sure the 8mbit speeds are just ADSL1.x They are currently doing a 24mbit trial.

Note that apparently, if you're on a mini-muxed RIM, you cant go through another ISP's dslams... (apparently)

where'd you buy the nb5 from, spook, and how much?

Ahhhhhhhhh the dream. WD Spook !

got a mate at OTC to order it in
took a few weeks
dunno if u can get em in shops (havent seen em)
got it for $130

worth it
adsl2 ready (up to 25mps)

w00t got my nb5 and a central splitter from some random site for ~$160 delivered. www.mangoworld.com.au

I should probably stop trusting randoms.

I've joined the iinet pillage machine. :)

We will be dslammed before the end of July - bulimba exchange.


roomate has a Linksys RV082 10/100 8-port VPN Router, so he's f***ed with it such that the nb5 isn't routing at all, just logging in. or something. DMZ out of the modem I'm led to believe.

So because we've still got telstra cable till the end of the month, we've got both connections going into the router... just a quick change to the alternate DNS and we flawlessly switch from cable to iinet :D


And the pillage to be had, oh my the pillage.

freenews.iinet.net.au is just ridiculous for unmetered content. casually downloading, I've gone through over 7gig since wednesday. not even dslammed yet. Just insane compared to the tight arse bigpong mentality I'm used to.



cheers to the thread starter and spook, just reading this thread made me do it :)

your welcome, whats the dealy with that freenews link? it doesnt work for me and im on iinet. what kind of content is there ? pr0n?!

gimme your email :D

We've been on iiNiet here at work for about 3 weeks now, speeds are brilliant.

ill just say, that my nb5 rox massively

u wont be disappointed;

my email is simon @ plaestudio . com

I hope by NB5, you mean the NB5+, as the original does not support ADSL2+ (out of the box), only ADSL1/2, meaning you'll be limited to a maximum of 12Mbps instead of 24Mbps :S

I'm not sure if they've released a firmware upgrade for ADSL2+, but personally I'd stay away from modems that don't support it out of the box.

last edited by parabol at 11:12:51 10/Jun/05

bargain, can you send me the details re the freenews site too? i'm on iinet and can't get to that page either!
why haven't i heard of this in the last 3 months of being on iinet?!?

jesu [atz] jesu.homedns.org

cheers

last edited by jesu at 11:19:22 10/Jun/05

yes, it supports adsl2 out of the box

not 2+, but upgradable to 2+ according to their website....

all good.


and yea.... the freenews...

go here and get a newsgroup client.

make a server to freenews.iinet.net.au

default port - 119

make 3 connections

no need for a login as u can only get in if you're with iinet

find the groups that interest you.

great thing is freenews use doesn't count to our quota.




last edited by bargain at 13:13:49 10/Jun/05

The reason I mentioned the NB5 doesn't support ADSL2+ out of the box but only with a firmware upgrade, is that this approach often (but not always) ends in unstable firmware, since the device wasn't designed with ADSL2+ primarily in mind.

I mean, take a look at the Netgear DG384. Some people were enjoying ADSL2/2+ without problems after applying the beta ADSL2/+ firmware, but many others ended up with an unstable connection and modem locking up.

If possible, go for a modem that supports ADSL2/2+ out of the box, that's all I'm saying :)

bargain wahts ur email address?

scalpalboy@hotmail.com

i don't believe in spaces.

check your email