I have talked/written about Exetel in this blog a few times. Last week I read an interesting post about Exetel’s mobile broadband speeds and how this compares with that of Optus, baring in mind they use the Optus mobile broadband network. This is extract has been taken from John Linton’s blog.
Our wireless sales are up around 300% from the same period in January 2009 (when we had only begun offering the service) and around 30% over the same time in December which means the small changes we have made to date have had some effect but not nearly enough. One thing that remains puzzling to us is that we use the Optus 3G network yet, since we began, delivering wireless services (via Layer 2 direct connection not just re-selling the retail service) in October 2008 the speeds on our Optus service are consistently much faster than the speeds on Optus own service by a quite considerable margin. We tested this out with the Optus Product manager on two occasions over the past year and he agreed that he duplicated the results and mumbled something about ‘firewalls’. I also have an Internode/Optus service (I purchased late in 2009) which is, as far as I know using Optus Layer 2, and that service whenever I test it over the past three months is far slower than the Exetel/Optus Layer 2 service in identical locations (strangely it almost looks as though Internode are just using the Optus retail service based on the speeds being nearly identical – but that can’t be so based on Internode’s public statements) – I have no idea what this means but I do know two acquaintances that use all three services and say that it’s a consistent result. It would be nice to find a way to use that anomaly but if, in fact there is a way, it continues to elude me.
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