No contract broadband?

[Spudz27]

Been with iinet 7yrs and before that westnet (now owned by iinet) I pay 89pm, get ADSL speeds, line rental and 400gb of data. If I lived in Perth t would be cheaper. But my adsl2 is using telstra infastructure so I have to pay more. However my max is sposed to be 20mbs, but the nice telstra man went to the exchange and opened up the port to full adsl2.

[Ruination]

Originally Posted by Spudz27

Been with iinet 7yrs and before that westnet (now owned by iinet) I pay 89pm, get ADSL speeds, line rental and 400gb of data. If I lived in Perth t would be cheaper. But my adsl2 is using telstra infastructure so I have to pay more. However my max is sposed to be 20mbs, but the nice telstra man went to the exchange and opened up the port to full adsl2.

Why do you have to pay extra because they're using telstra infrastructure? Every single ISP uses Telstra Infrastructure, as the exchanges themselves are owned by Telstra.
Also max potential speed adsl2 can get is only 24mbs. That is how horrible and old Telstra infrastructure is.

[duaned]

Originally Posted by Ruination

Why do you have to pay extra because they're using telstra infrastructure? Every single ISP uses Telstra Infrastructure, as the exchanges themselves are owned by Telstra.
Also max potential speed adsl2 can get is only 24mbs. That is how horrible and old Telstra infrastructure is.

Basically what he is trying to say is he is a zone 2 or 3 customer. All the equipment in his exchange is owned by Telstra so the costs for his ISP are greater. Those in Metropoliton areas (zone 1) may have access to DSLAMS installed in Telstra's exchange etc. that are owned by the ISP (Internode, IINET, Adam etc.) which reduces the cost to the ISP and of course the customer.

[Kieron]

Originally Posted by Ruination

Why do you have to pay extra because they're using telstra infrastructure? Every single ISP uses Telstra Infrastructure, as the exchanges themselves are owned by Telstra.
Also max potential speed adsl2 can get is only 24mbs. That is how horrible and old Telstra infrastructure is.

ISP's lease rack space in the exchanges from Telstra for there own DSLAMS but don't necessarily use Telstra's network for backhaul*. There are a few providers, iinet, Optus etc. You can also have your own cable direct to an ISP if you like and some businesses do but it's prohibitively expensive of course.

Some ISP's lease ports/backhaul traffic from the main providers. If you're within the reach of an Optus equipped Exchange, the ISP will hook you up to them but if you can only get Telstra, you will be linked to them and have to pay more as Telstra charge the ISP more than Optus. For instance, i'm with Exetel and am slugged $54/month for ADSL2+ and 200gb peak/unlimited offpeak for a Telstra port (that's all I can get). Exetel also resell on the iiNet network - $39.99/month with 500gb.


*Home user---ADSl(private)---->DSLAM-----BACKHAUL(shared)---->Internet