How much would you pay for this? Its a 22mbit connection - asynchronous its 22mbits d/l and 3.2mbits upload. Synchronous its 13mbits both way.

I think if Telstra would stop being a bigot on technology I'd probably pay about $100/month for either one. But the problem is it would obviously be capped AND have a download quota.

What do you guys think?

- sR

how much bandwidth do say, powerup etc. have at there fingertips?

f*** all - but they DO advertise the fact that they have 4000 dialup modems.

- sR

hmz k, just wondering, coz liek if we all this vdsl, liek we do cable, wouldnt it put a h00j strain on liek, everything..or something..

the strain would be on the overseas links

It is my understanding that Webcentral have one of the fastest privately paid for links in the country... Trog would know.

If you remember the same concerns were voiced when cable came out. There's onlt so much dowloading a single person can do I guess...

speak for yourself
downloading about 1.5gig right now

webcentral and powerup are supposed to be the BEST dialup and web service place in australia

( cept telstra dialup atm cause they have bigger stuff) but power rawks and so does webcentral, i have serives from both these ppl and my site loads REAL quick, even though it has flash etc

adn it works good from overseas friends tell me, they live in seatle

f*** all - but they DO advertise the fact that they have 4000 dialup modems.

umm they have 100mbps fibre which has ability to do approx 11MB/S !! thats a s***LOAD

-edit s***LOAD = 1833 modems downloading at 6k/s simultaniously

ummm dude, 100 a month for that? TRY 400 A MONTH

My understanding was it was actually dual 100 megabyte / sec, not bit.

Hex on he who caused this bit/byte problem!

11 megabyte / second isn't actually that much if you think about it. (For eg, 4000 modem users downloading say 2kbyte/sec is over 7megabyte / second) Plus of course the huge number of websites they host, and 11 megabytes / second sounds pretty puny.

i was led to believe powerup have a 155mb connection to telstra, and a 100mb connection to ozemail.
trog would know/find out, plz?

who u talking about? power up or webcentral? my understanding is they are on different links.

and 100mbps is Dual Fibre - TX and RX (upload and download)
i doubt u will find ANY isp in brisbane/australia that has more than 100mb for dialup only!

there's stacks of different links going into the WebC/Powerup building. My understanding is all the bandwidth is shared, so powerup essentially sits on the same thing 1 x 100mbit to telstra, 1 x 100mbit to UUNet. Being smaert, I just looked at the powerup webpage, which says "100mbit links"; I'm pretty sure that's right.

FYI, I think the INSTALLATION FEE for the Telstra 100mbit link at the time that WC got it put in was in the magnitude of $80,000 - $90,000.

well it cant be 100 MB/s cause that means that webc/powerup would have the entire of brisbanes internet backbone (from telstra anyway) going to their building

test

$100 a month....

tell him he's dreamin...

one hundred billion dollers a month !

f*** 100 bucks a month...id rather 50 bucks a month cable...even with a 3 gig limit and 512k sec

EDIT : 50 would include GST as well...none of the extra 10 % bs