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Petronius
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Hmmmm...I recall reading in another thread, or perhaps on Whirlpool, that some people were reporting slower speeds when connected wirelessly compared to wired.


So much for that theory. I've just hooked up my Mac via Airport instead of ethernet, and I'm only getting a very slight reduction in speed as measured on the speedtest.net page: eg 6610 kbit/s wireless as opposed to 6640 kbit/s wired (that's the average of three tests in each case).

I get such variable results with the ozspeedtest.com site that I can't make any useful comparison between wired and wireless.

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I get no difference between wireless and wired either. I think it depends on the individual's setup
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I get no difference between wireless and wired either. I think it depends on the individual's setup

Quite possibly. Not only do you have the signal strength to worry about, but you also have encryption overheads if you're running WEP or WPA; the wireless adapter in the computer (especially if it is an older 802.11b card); and maybe even the processor in the modem/router.

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I think I'll leave it until Wednesday then bring it to Support's attention. Nothing can happen before then anyway and I'll have more sample info.

I would just like to hear from the aaNet techie person behind the trial whether all this posting of info is what they want - it all seems too random to be much use. Maybe it's all for nothing and they just want to hear from people with issues, but I don't understand why they haven't given us some guidelines for what they want.

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I get no difference between wireless and wired either. I think it depends on the individual's setup

seems that way, I used to have a big difference but after running TCPoptimizer they all run about the same

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for the record, I'm using 802.11b (centrino wireless thingy) and the Billion 7402vgp, and the Intel proset software to manage the connection
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Hmm, different web site, very different result. Still "slow" though...

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Does your modem tell you what speed it is synching at? If it hasn't "trained" itself properly, you may not be getting the fastest synch speed (and therefore the fastest download speed) possible.

On the other hand, you may just have a noisy ADSL link. :(

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Does your modem tell you what speed it is synching at? If it hasn't "trained" itself properly, you may not be getting the fastest synch speed (and therefore the fastest download speed) possible.

On the other hand, you may just have a noisy ADSL link. :(


Sync is at 8Mbits (see the link in my sig) :?

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I'm keen to be part of the trial, more bandwidth is always a good thing!
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I'm keen to be part of the trial, more bandwidth is always a good thing!

Sadly, the trial is closed. The new plans are on www.aanet.com.au - you might2 them attractive. :)

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The new plans are on www.aanet.com.au - you might might them attractive. :)


Just might, might... :(

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The new plans are on www.aanet.com.au - you might might them attractive. :)


Just might, might... :(

And aaNet don't shape, throttle, squeeze or anything nasty, not like T.. does. ;)

Also see --> http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-re ... =648681#r1

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The new plans are on www.aanet.com.au - you might2 them attractive. :)


Puzzle... Find the fault... :P

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As part of the preparation for the commercial launch of the new 8Mbps ADSL service, aaNet is looking for some trial customers.

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The ADSL Plan will offer free churn, and no contract period. The price will be guaranteed for a minimum of six months.


Hmmm - I seem to have been charged a plan change fee in my last statement. Do I need to e-mail someone (billing? billings?) to get this resolved?

edit: changed 'churn fee' to 'plan change fee'

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Hmmm - I seem to have been charged a churn fee in my last statement. Do I need to e-mail someone (billing? billings?) to get this resolved?


email billing [at] aanet.com.au about it... I think Jason is on holiday so it may not get picked up from the forum atm...
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The ADSL Plan will offer free churn, and no contract period. The price will be guaranteed for a minimum of six months.


Hmmm - I seem to have been charged a churn fee in my last statement. Do I need to e-mail someone (billing? billings?) to get this resolved?


You're not the only one. Got charged $50 for the churn fee too. :?

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You're not the only one. Got charged $50 for the churn fee too. :?

I've got a task number assigned, so I'll let you know how things pan out

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I see somebody has posted the same problem over on WP. Could be something to watch out for, for all of us.

I haven't had my first bill yet as I had just gone past my anniversary so I think they just called it even for the first month instead of double billing me, hope I don't get a plan change fee as my credit card probably wont handle it this soon after Xmas and New Years.

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No problems with mine...
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I think I recall reading a post from Jason, saying that he was removing the charge for the trial users before it hit the billing system. Maybe a few just slipped though when he wasn't looking.

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I think I recall reading a post from Jason, saying that he was removing the charge for the trial users before it hit the billing system. Maybe a few just slipped though when he wasn't looking.


but a churn charge for existing customers? :?
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Mine is a speed upgrade charge, not a churn charge. Do people have to pay for speed upgrade charge for the 8Mbit trial?

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no, I got no fees at all - just the new monthly charge
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