{"id":806,"date":"2007-03-23T14:48:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T04:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/faster-net-is-da-bomb\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T14:48:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T04:48:54","slug":"faster-net-is-da-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/faster-net-is-da-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"faster net is da bomb!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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).<\/p>\n<p>I enabled\/upgraded my Internode plan to get the faster speed. It got activated or whatever yesterday, but I didn&#8217;t really see an improvement. Anyway, headed over to the Internode support site to check out their setup instructions for my ADSL modem &#8211; turns out that simply by changing from PPPoE to PPPoA I&#8217;ve gotten a huge speed boost.<\/p>\n<p>Just pulled an LCA video from the Internode mirror at 862K\/s. Rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/faster-net-is-da-bomb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-d0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3407,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/misadventures-in-internet-access\/","url_meta":{"origin":806,"position":0},"title":"Misadventures in internet access","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2013-09-21","format":false,"excerpt":"So, around the time one would reasonably expect an extra tap to have been put on our ADSL line, we started getting relatively frequent drop outs. 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