Comment Hoorah! (Score 2) 204
Whilst all you Americans, Canadians and Europeans may think this 'too little, too late', this is great news for us Aussies.
In Australia there is a keen, competitive dialup ISP market - but the one & only local loop telco, telstra, is a complete joke.
The great thing about this new modem standard is that the upgrading need only be done at the ISP end and the user end.....
No need for the telco to do anything - Telstra has been able to do ADSL for years, but there is not a single available ADSL connection in Australia.
And aside from the capital cities, cable is very much over the horizon, looking into 2001 or 2002.
The only high bandwidth option available to me here is ISDN, which is laugably expensive (line charges are at the rate of a few dollars per hour) or satellite, which is expensive to setup and the lag means that quake II isnt happening over it.
Thus ive found the best solution is to multilink in three 56k modems to the ISP - 168kbps d/l - i can almost pretend I have ADSL.
With the introduction of this standard, hopefully sometime early next year Ill have the upstream to go with that d/l speed.
In Australia there is a keen, competitive dialup ISP market - but the one & only local loop telco, telstra, is a complete joke.
The great thing about this new modem standard is that the upgrading need only be done at the ISP end and the user end.....
No need for the telco to do anything - Telstra has been able to do ADSL for years, but there is not a single available ADSL connection in Australia.
And aside from the capital cities, cable is very much over the horizon, looking into 2001 or 2002.
The only high bandwidth option available to me here is ISDN, which is laugably expensive (line charges are at the rate of a few dollars per hour) or satellite, which is expensive to setup and the lag means that quake II isnt happening over it.
Thus ive found the best solution is to multilink in three 56k modems to the ISP - 168kbps d/l - i can almost pretend I have ADSL.
With the introduction of this standard, hopefully sometime early next year Ill have the upstream to go with that d/l speed.
