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Telstra Cable (Docsis 2.0) can hit over 30Mbit = 3.75MB/s

LOL. I made a mistake which cubase pointed out. I really meant that cable in most regional areas only offer speeds of up to 3mbps not 3MB/s. And unless they have changed that thats still the speed.

A friend of mine had cable and was connected at 12mbps and it was the max possible speed as 30mbps cable didn't exist back than and 24mbps ADSL2+ was only just coming out. But he told me his uncle had the new ADSL2+ at the time and said his cable was still faster.

I already know how cable works etc etc as I read up quite a lot about ADSL and cable before I first got connected to broadband. And I still stand by what I said

ADSL2+ theory max is 24Mbit... however most sync below 20Mbit. Mine used to sync at 18Mbit.

Thats a very impressive sync for ADSL2+ as the majority of people are lucky to even sync at 14mbps. I've been told that my 7.5mbps speed was quite good for an 8mbps connection as most don't even get to see 6mbps. But my lines aren't exactly the best and I live about a kilometre or less from the exchance so my sync speeds should be full 8mbps.

But what can I expect. Telstra only cares about money and they get most of it in capital regions so they couldn't care less about the quality of our lines.[thumbdown] So long as we can make a phone call or connect to the net no matter the speed there's nothing we can really complain about