AussieMan
April 19th, 2013, 02:22
Many years ago I switched from dial up to broadband and later to ADSL and ADSL 2+. Needless to say I was disappointed with the speeds I was getting. After many "discussions" with Telstra and being told I was too far from the local exchange. My argument was that the fellow 6 doors down the road from me was getting speeds in the range of 800kb/s while I was stuck with an average of about 70kb/s. Finally on Monday after another call Telstra finally admitted there was a fault. The fault was rectified the next morning and I did a speed test while the tech was here and could not believe that I was getting a download speed of 6.5mb/s. Yesterday I downloaded the new ORBX Library Files in less than 3 minutes at a speed of 693kb/s. While there is still room for improvement it is a huge jump from 70kb/s to nearly 700kb/s. Plus the fact I can now look at the screenshots that are put up here. In the past I would start to look at the screenshots and while they were loading I could go and make a cup of tea. Also I can carry out other internet tasks while downloading without any noticeable degredation of speed.