Vodafone wireless and LAN

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OrphanAnnie

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#2969279 16-Sep-2022 18:15

Btw, thanks to everyone that took the time to reply to my topic. You helped me clarify what option I should choose and I appreciate the input.

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#2969686 18-Sep-2022 11:55

OrphanAnnie:

Central Hawkes Bay.

What part of central hawkes bay?

If you PM me your address I'll have a look.

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OrphanAnnie

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#2969714 18-Sep-2022 13:18

Thanks Ray but I've decided to stick with ADSL. It's the easy option for now and I'll look at it again in 12 months time.

OrphanAnnie

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#2974988 29-Sep-2022 20:10

An update for any that might be in the same position as I am. I decided to go with the Vodafone ADSL plan with phone and confirmed this on Tuesday. Yesterday, as an existing customer of Vodafone (and have been for nearly 10 years with never a late payment), I was sent an email saying they can’t progress it because they need to see a copy of my Birth Certificate and 2 forms of proof of address with my name on it (e.g. bank statement, power bill or pay slip) for credit review. Needless to say, I didn't provide the documents and instead asked them to review my payment history. No reply as yet but if they continue to insist they can take a hike.

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#2974994 29-Sep-2022 20:35

quickymart:

If you still want your copper service, may pay to shop around, I believe Vodafone are flat out going to stop offering it altogether in the near future (I could be wrong though).

As to options, what shows at available if you enter your address in here? https://broadbandmap.nz/home

Agree with this ^^^^ in non fibre areas you can still get voice over copper in areas where Fibre is not available using Baseband IP

Vodafone don't offer it though - they insist even with 0.77 upload to run voice off their modem which in times of upload saturation will kill voice traffic no amount of QoS will fix that

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#2975080 29-Sep-2022 22:23

nztim:

Vodafone don't offer it though - they insist even with 0.77 upload to run voice off their modem which in times of upload saturation will kill voice traffic no amount of QoS will fix that

You poked me with that 😄
Ive done a bit of playing around and testing on the subject.

Its quite possible for some routers to use built in qos for the upload speed-less-100kbits to set a hard limit on the egress packets so voip always works. I am not sure if the huaweis have a function where they will use the dsl stats to set the upload qos though. The tplink and cambium i have tested it in are totally manual for the qos bandwidth settings but it totally works well even down to a 128k upload connection.

On the downstream side, chorus send the sync speed to the isp as part of the option82 data - so its also possible to put a hard limit and some qos on the downstream side too always allocating a spare 100kbits for voip traffic as packets leave One's side and get passed over to chorus.

Hey it might even be possible to use the sync speed info from the option82, feed that into the TR-069 provisioning system to set the upload speed in a roundabout way if the router itself doesnt want to look at its own sync speed stats and use the figures internally.

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OrphanAnnie

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#2982462 13-Oct-2022 23:24

My situation with vodafone finally got sorted without the need for a credit check and I was sent a modem (Huawei DN8245). From the date I activated it, my iphone (7) battery has drained in less than 8 hours when I normally get around 3 days before a recharge is necessary (and this is obvious when I look in settings > Battery). I turned off Wireless and it is still happening. Can anyone cast any light on this?

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#2982481 14-Oct-2022 08:29

Have you connected your iPhone to the new WiFi network the DN8245 provides?

It seems as if your iPhone is using it's data connection all the time, and killing the battery.

OrphanAnnie

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#2982702 14-Oct-2022 17:22

Hi trig42. Yes it was connected to WiFi but your post made me have another look at it and I've solved the problem. I went into the modem interface and noticed it was connected to the 5GHz frequency band so I renamed the network to force it onto the 2.4GHz band and it's now holding it's charge. So thanks for that. I dont know enough about WiFi technology to explain why it made such a difference but it did.

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