Telstra Throttling ADSL ?

[Bigfish]

He's talking crap

30 YEARS AS A TELSTRA TECHNICIAN and I can tell you that he is not talking crap. Business customers ALWAYS get priority..company policy.  It used to Shit me that customers who still paid monthly line rental got treated totally different to a corporate/business customer. Even worse if you were a rural customer..sometimes 2 week wait to get fixed whilst Mr. Brown who ran the local milk bar gets his line fixed asap.  Fact not fiction..ADSL will always get slower as more customers get on the same exchange.  Remember when ADSL would slow down of an evening /mid afternoon when all the school kids got home and jumped on the interenet? Same thing.  You can put 1 hose or 10 hoses into a 20 litre bucket...it still only holds 20 litres.

[D4D]

30 YEARS AS A TELSTRA TECHNICIAN and I can tell you that he is not talking rap. Business customers ALWAYS get priority..company policy.  It used to Shit me that customers who still paid monthly line rental got treated totally different to a corporate/business customer. Fact not fiction..

There's no priority on mobile network access unless you pay for it, e.g. Lanes.

[xcvator]

There's no priority on mobile network access unless you pay for it, e.g. Lanes.

Neither Bigfish nor I mentioned mobile connections, I'm talking about landlines only, I couldn't give a stuff about wireless, so does Telstra choke/throttle or whatever else you want to call it, adsl2 connections when the nbn gets close

[D4D]

Neither Bigfish nor I mentioned mobile connections, I'm talking about landlines only, I couldn't give a stuff about wireless, so does Telstra choke/throttle or whatever else you want to call it, adsl2 connections when the nbn gets close

Bigfish updated his post after I replied. Yes corporate/business customers get a higher priority on service/fault rectification That's because they pay more to get an SLA with their service.

Re throttling, as per the earlier answer, it is network congestion/backhaul contention. No conspiracy theory.

[The punter]

Bigfish updated his post after I replied. Yes corporate/business customers get a higher priority on service/fault rectification That's because they pay more to get an SLA with their service.

Re throttling, as per the earlier answer, it is network congestion/backhaul contention. No conspiracy theory.

I think I'm on his ignore list. Oh the pain

[BaseCamp]

Well it's official - (according to this Couriermail article - Fri 02/06/17) ....

(sorry it's loaded sideways  grr)...

BaseCamp

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[prodigyrf]

Re throttling, as per the earlier answer, it is network congestion/backhaul contention. No conspiracy theory.

There is congestion to muddy the waters and some areas are worse than others even on fibre, but there's no way my ADSL2+ service has not been DLMed to half now as it's still rock solid at that any time of the night or day. Doesn't make much difference for general web surfing but it certainly would if you were a big downloader of data.

It was Netflix that tipped a bucket on the best laid plans of mice and men although to be fair the NBN is still a work in progress to get everyone on ASAP and then they'll have to address the congested areas seriously.

[The punter]

There is congestion to muddy the waters and some areas are worse than others even on fibre, but there's no way my ADSL2+ service has not been DLMed to half now as it's still rock solid at that any time of the night or day. Doesn't make much difference for general web surfing but it certainly would if you were a big downloader of data.

It was Netflix that tipped a bucket on the best laid plans of mice and men although to be fair the NBN is still a work in progress to get everyone on ASAP and then they'll have to address the congested areas seriously.

Yep, that's QoS working as intended, fairs fair