27 October 2009

Life is good. Or maybe not.

So finally, after 3 years of fighting and pleading and daydreaming about committing all manner of evil deeds against Telstra, we had ADSL. Glorious, fast, 1500/256 ADSL. It was only ADSL1, but hey, it was ADSL.

We decommissioned the 128K ISDN link and waved a fond farewell to the one-way satellite service (the dish still sits on our roof, gathering cobwebs, as a solemn reminder of those dark days).

At some point further down the track, Telstra upped ADSL capacity to 8mb. We jumped on the upgrade and bumped our Internode plan to 8mb/384. We were doing Mach 5 on the information superhighway!

For a year or so, things are great. Internode rocked our socks as a provider, the link was stable and fast. 8mb all the way baby, yeah!

But wait, what's this? Now we're getting 3mb throughput? Where did the glorious 8mb that we're paying for get to?

Investigations were made, questions were asked and it was confirmed that Telstra had capped the RIM at 3mb. Fan-freaking-tastic.

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