what is the best cable plan? adsl vs cable (1 Viewer)

[dark_angel]

wats a logic gate?

 

[withoutaface]

It's used to calculate stuff in boolean algebra.

 

[Assasinator_2]

wats a logic gate?

Things your brain lack.

512 adsl is speed-limited to 512kbits/second, or 64kbytes a second.

Cable, when it reads 'unlimited', is not speed-capped like ADSL. it has a hard limit of around 10Mbits/sec, or 1.25MBytes/second.

However, don't think that 'unlimited' means unlimited amount of downloads - on telstra cable, the moment you toe over 10GB of data, you'll get shaped down to 64kbits/sec, or 8kBytes/sec, and thus download only a tad faster than a dialup modem.

Whilst ADSL tends to be slower in speed, they almost always have higher download limits. If you're a leecher, go ADSL. If you know you won't hit 10GB of data in a month, but when downloading stuff you want it lightning-fast, go cable.

Pretty much a simple rule of thumb, though it is about to change in the next couple of months (read: look at whirlpool's iiNet and Internode news reports.)

 

[fatmuscle]

Optus Cable

12gb peak (9am - 2am)
24gb off-peak (2am - 9am)

Or if you go with one of the optus plans, u get 4 months internet free!!! (but you lose ur 100 local calls per month)

but yeah, if you live close enough to an exchange, you can receive speeds which match cable speeds. (adsl 2)

so if you are making the switch to broadband, plan first!!!

and yeah, if you haven't checked up on whirlpool. do it.