Thread: Optus Cable Networks

But isn't the signal still coming down a crappy old Telstra owned (leased to Optus) copper line through and ancient Telstra owned exchange (line relays leased to Optus) with the copper lines still running through water filled line junction sumps owned and maintained by Telstra.

Bring on a fibre optic network.

Garry

Originally Posted by garrycol

But isn't the signal still coming down a crappy old Telstra owned (leased to Optus) copper line through and ancient Telstra owned exchange (line relays leased to Optus) with the copper lines still running through water filled line junction sumps owned and maintained by Telstra.

Bring on a fibre optic network.

Garry

This is via the Pay TV Coax network which Optus owns (I think) not thorugh are high quality copper phone network.

All I can say is if you can get a cable Internet connection get it and dont look back. I am so gelous as all I can get in my newly built house is ADSL1

Originally Posted by dale

This is via the Pay TV Coax network which Optus owns (I think) not thorugh are high quality copper phone network.

All I can say is if you can get a cable Internet connection get it and dont look back. I am so gelous as all I can get in my newly built house is ADSL1

Yes Optus owns the cable - in some places there are both Optus and Telstra cables in the same street - often on opposite sides of the road.

I've been on Optus cable since they ran the cable down my street (was Optushome domain name at that time). Originally when there was almost no-one on the cable network the speeds were really fast, but I have noticed significant speed reductions over the years. Probably as more and more users gobbled up the bandwidth.

Is there a big price difference?

BTW: the Optus cable is fibreoptic to the local node and then coax copper to your home. It'll be great when they extend the fibre to your home!

Originally Posted by RaZz0R

Max local download speed from optus is now 8 megabytes per second!! Thats USB 1 speed.

So that's not the new Supersonic cable connection they've been touting lately? I get the 8Mbps on my Optus cable connection.

8 megabytes/sec is amazing, much more than 8 megabits/sec or 8Mbps

1MBps = 8 Mbps

I just gave OPtus the boot and got Exetel naked DSL, 50 a month you get 30G download peak and 180G offpeak. Coupled to Engin voip plan = 19.95 a month gives you 400min or 200 calls free to mobile a month. 10c untimed std and local calls.

So I don't have to pay for line rental anymore and the max I pay per month would be a little over $70

Originally Posted by milld

I just gave OPtus the boot and got Exetel naked DSL, 50 a month you get 30G download peak and 180G offpeak. Coupled to Engin voip plan = 19.95 a month gives you 400min or 200 calls free to mobile a month. 10c untimed std and local calls.<snip>

Not a lot to do with Optus cable though is it.

You are still tied to Telstra's corroded old twin wire copper to get your VoIP and more than that I have a personal distaste to people on the other end of the line using VoIP.

The call starts with no one on the line, some seconds later just as you are hanging up and a faint voice in the distance fades in. When someone in their house access the internet, you get all manner of clangs, clicks and spriongs in your ear while the caller fades out and sometimes back in, but mind you many times the call is gone forever.

Give me Optushome broadband cable 100 times before any ADSL VoIP gets even a look in.

Diana

mmmm, a lot of people don't correctly set up voip, use the wrong codecs, or don't have quality of service setup. When it's done correctly there's next to no way of telling your on voip. As you know the long delays are mainly due to call centres located in India or the likes.

Have a good voip provider and correctly setup, your on your way to save some big money with good call quality period.

That corroded copper serves nearly every business and home in Australia from pstn to Basic rate onramp 2 ISDN to Primary rate 30 channel ISDN for both voice and data.