Joseph Gibbs wrote:
Also, will the current infrastructure handle this? My flat is currently getting a max of about 300kb (small 'b') on our 2mb connection - because our exchange is overloaded and due to be upgraded by telecom "sometime in the future". And that 300kb is only when our net works at all... Our ISP says they've had many complaints about this, ever since Telecom started upgrading to 3.5mb.
There are several reasons why you get that speed: 1) Your line quality might suck. 2) A sucky DSLAM (Conklin) 3) Congestion from your DSLAM to the ISP 4) Congestion from the ISP to your destination site.
LLU fixes the first 2 trivially, and makes 3 avoidable.
Excuse my ignorance, but is a DSLAM and the 'exhange' in fact one in the same (or in the same 'box')? Also (perhaps this warrants a new topic), Telecom won't give us or our ISP any indication of when our local exhange will be upgraded. Any ideas on how I can hassle Telecom to get that done faster? Our ISP says that they have many people with the same problem, and that no one knows when any particular exhange may be upgraded, just that there's a list of exchanges that need it. Also, out of interest, what sort of area (in terms of size or amount of lines) does any one particular exchange usually service? Joseph.