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"I am on iinet 24mbps plan... only 200m from exchange, i am getting 4.9megabits per second in perth... which makes sense, downloaded a 600MB file in 20min the other day, copy of linux :)"

"I got a 233 MB download of service pack 2 at 3am in the morning at 10Mb per second max the download took 28 seconds and i have since installed the software"

"I got 177 kb/sec storage and 4.5 sec to dload 1 mb. Optus in Sydney. Was 3 in the morning though. Very fast connection."

"I got 7.6 Sec for a 1mb download on optus cable in Bris at 10pm on a Sat night. (and 1.6minutes for a 1mb upload) using http://www.bandwidthplace.com"

"I'm getting 108.8 Kilobytes per sec in Sydney at 12.51pm on Optus cable.

It's meant to have an capped max speed of 400 I think, but I don't think it ever gets anywhere near that. 108.8 is still pretty good though I guess. 9.4sec to download 1MB.

I haven't experienced many outages since I got it in Nov."

"I'm getting 56.7 kilobytes per second in Melbourne tonight on Telstra Cable. 60 kilobytes/s is the speed cap for the plan I'm on, so that's okay. Uptime reliability could do with some improvement though. In 8 months I've logged 122 outages of up to 15 minutes, and 91 which were longer than 15 minutes. A very good source of independent info/critique for Australian Broadband is http://www.whirlpool.net.au"