Move up to Internode Extreme® ADSL2+

The convenience of doing business and servicing customers online is greater than ever with ADSL2+ services. And downloading large files or programs never felt so quick. If you thought you were already productive online - your Internet world is about to change for the better.

You can sign up online for Internode Extreme® ADSL2+ right now, on a variety of cost effective plans (subject to coverage availability).

Special Offers

• Discounted setup charge on all Extreme® ADSL2+ services with our 24 month contract option.
• Check out our great new entry point for SOHO Extreme® ADSL2+ - now from just $59.95 per month.

It's time to get faster broadband with Internode!

What can it do?

The next generation of ADSL broadband, Extreme® ADSL2+ services are capable of download speeds of up to an incredible 24 Megabits per second. All the benefits of ADSL - but even faster, and with very competitive prices.

In addition, our SOHO, Business and IBC Extreme® ADSL2+ services support ADSL2+ Annex M (the first Annex M services to be launched in Australia and among the first in the world). Annex M can raise your upload speeds to a massive 2 Megabits per second or higher (depending on line conditions).

ADSL2+ Broadband runs both faster and further than standard ADSL. Internode's services are so much faster than standard ADSL that we call them 'Extreme®' plans - extremely fast, and extremely good value!

How fast can it be?

On the graph, the blue and green shaded areas show the theoretical maximum speeds you can obtain on Internode Extreme® ADSL2+ services, at various distances from your local exchange using ADSL1 and ADSL2+ equipment.

Factors that may affect performance

The speeds indicated on this graph show the theoretical maximum speed of the various ADSL protocols on good copper lines - with no bad joints, faulty insulation, or high speed 'interferers' (such as bridge taps or loading coils). Your actual achieved speed may vary substantially from these theoretical results, based on:

• the length of copper wire from your premises to the exchange - this is always higher than the distance 'as the crow flies'.
• the number and type of other digital services being used by other customers over copper pairs within the same cable sheath.
• the configuration and line quality of the copper wire pair between the exchange and your premises.
• electrical interference from outside sources (such as electric motors).
• the configuration of the copper wiring within your premises (ie use a central splitter for optimal performance).
• the software configuration and application on your computer (in particular how it uses the uplink back to the exchange).
• your ADSL hardware.
• the capacity of, load on, and access data rate of the destination host computer which you are accessing.

The most effective way to improve your Extreme® ADSL2+ performance is to have a licensed cabler install a good quality central splitter (available from Internode) in your premises to use with your ADSL2+ router.

So how does ADSL2+ perform in the real world?

You don't live in a laboratory, so it's quite true that the various factors listed above will reduce your performance from the 'ideal' shown in the above graph.

Hence, in December 2006 we took a random sample 7,305 Internode Extreme® ADSL2+ broadband services. Each service was connected to an Internode DSLAM and using the ADSL2+ protocol (G992.5 Annex A ADSL2+ over POTS). We found the following distribution:

• 13.4% achieve a download synch speed of higher than 20 Mbps
• 27.7% achieve a download synch speed of between 15 Mbps and 20 Mbps
• 22.1% achieve a download synch speed of between 10 Mbps and 15 Mbps
• 23.0% achieve a download synch speed of between 5 Mbps and 10 Mbps
• 13.8% achieve a download synch speed of less than 5 Mbps

So over 63% of these customers are achieving 10 Mbps download synch speed or better ...... and that's why we call it Extreme®!

Annex M

Internode provides Australia's first 'Annex M' capabilities, on all SOHO, Business and IBC Extreme® ADSL2+ services. Annex M increases the maximum potential upload speed on an ADSL2+ service from 1 Mbps to 2.5 Mbps, enabling high performance Internet Virtual Private Networks from your office.

The above notes on factors affecting your actual performance are equally true for Annex M - particularly distance and premises cabling.

Once again, the 'real world' data is quite impressive - during December 2006 we took a random sample of 401 Internode Extreme® ADSL2+ SOHO and Business services. Each service was connected to an Internode DSLAM and using the ADSL2+ Annex M protocol (G992.5 Annex M ADSL2+ over POTS). And we found the following distribution:

• 10.5% achieve an upload synch speed of higher than 2.4 Mbps
• 24.7% achieve an upload synch speed of between 2.1 Mbps and 2.4 Mbps
• 18.5% achieve an upload synch speed of between 1.8 Mbps and 2.1 Mbps
• 40.4% achieve an upload synch speed of between 1.0 Mbps and 1.8 Mbps
• 6.0% achieve an upload synch speed of less than 1.0 Mbps

So over 53% of these customers are achieving 1.8 Mbps upload synch speed or better ...... that's another Extreme® result!