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In article <20080310225541.59D791A7574@isole>,
 Anonymous <cripto@ecn.org> wrote:

> I signed up for Optus ADSL. The sales rep told me that all the ADSL2+
> DSLAMs were in use, but they would automatically roll me over to the
> faster when they changed the old DSLAMs out. At that time, they were
> charging the same price for ADSL and ADSL2+ (with same gigabytes
> allowance).
> Then nearly 2 years later, somebody came knocking on the door,
> trying to sell me Optus ADSL2+ plans. When I saw the plans, I told them
> to shove it, as my current plan was better value, and I was only
> getting dialup speed half the time anyway.
> Yesterday, I looked at the modem status, and found that download
> speed has gone up from 512 to 1536 kbps (but uploads still
> a wheezy 128 kbps).

1536/128 is (almost certainly) not ADSL2+

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