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Australian here. I was recently forced from my ADSL2+ service over to the shiny new HFC system. My quality actually degraded - although my bandwidth increased,
by botbot 9y ago
Australian here.
I was recently forced from my ADSL2+ service over to the shiny new HFC system. My quality actually degraded - although my bandwidth increased, my latency is off the charts, especially in peak time. I contacted my ISP to see if I could go back to my ADSL2+ service and they flat out said no.
The future is bleak.
- Veratyr 9y agoWhich ISP and where is the latency though? It could be that your ISP has congestion on NBN but not on ADSL2+? Not necessarily the NBN's fault.
- botbot 9y agoThis is true, but cable networks tend to degrade because of the way bandwidth is shared compared to DSL connections, and actually gets worse with higher adoption rates. It has to do with where the connection is actually multiplexed. Check out the section 'Shared Bandwidth' on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Internet_access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Internet_access Check out this comparison: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/tech-tips/compare-cable-dsl/pcmcat748301881084.c?id=pcmcat748301881084 http://www.bestbuy.com/site/tech-tips/compare-cable-dsl/pcmc... And check out the post by Net_Sharing in this forum: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28980221-Speed-Does-cable-broadband-really-get-shared-with-the-neighborhood http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28980221-Speed-Does-cable-b...