So, while I was away it seems that Telstra enabled the 8Mbit down/1Mbit up stuff in their ADSL points in the exchanges (which has been possible for all sorts of amount of time).
I enabled/upgraded my Internode plan to get the faster speed. It got activated or whatever yesterday, but I didn’t really see an improvement. Anyway, headed over to the Internode support site to check out their setup instructions for my ADSL modem – turns out that simply by changing from PPPoE to PPPoA I’ve gotten a huge speed boost.
Just pulled an LCA video from the Internode mirror at 862K/s. Rock.
heh, agreed, upgraded to 8mbit node a few weeks ago. 1.5mbit is like bloody dialup :)
it’s great, and more than enough down, but I miss the 1mbit up from my old connection in adelaide :(