RE: [SLUG] Telstra slashes 20pc off Advance cable prices

[Andrew Macks]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, David Zverina wrote:

> > Traffic on BigPond Advance Freedom is limited to 400Kbit inbound, 128Kbit
> > outbound.
> >
> > Optus@Home is 2Mbit (+?) inbound and 128Kbit outbound.
> 
> I dont think that's nowhere near as relevant as how much bandwidth per
> (active) subscriber is available to the internet backbone.

Which is why Optus@Home can get away with more bandwidth, because they
have @Home supporting them.

The Telstra backbone cannot withstand much more traffic (certainly not at
levels of 2Mbit per customer) and quite frankly I'm surprised they even
did this.

Andrew.

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