Orcon unlimited plans - are they traffic managed?

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Snapfrozen

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#146716 27-May-2014 08:24

Hi team,

New to the forum and have been out of the it game in nz for a few years but am looking for a new isp. Currently on a historic Vodafone plan with 100gb data that caps when I reach it with an option to buy more. Landline included and I see speds of around 10mb down and 1 to 2 up. Primary use is gaming but I do occasionally download and average around 100gb use per month.

Looking at orcons plans my options are 80gb or unlimited, I've ruled the 80 out as it wouldn't be enough which leads me to questions about the unlimited plans.

1. I'm in a zone that can get vdsl. Can I expect triple or near that of my speeds above on it?

2. Are the plans traffic managed or data shaped in any way? I have no interest in moving to an ISP where I get slowed down at peak times

3. Are there any differences in ping between vdsl and adsl

Thanks

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#1054056 27-May-2014 08:24

Hello... Our robot found some keywords in your post, so here is an automated reply with some important things to note regarding broadband speeds.

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Sounddude

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#1054076 27-May-2014 08:40

1) Potentially ;-) Depends on your line quality and distance from exchange.

2) Nope, we don't do any traffic management or have a fair use policy.

3) The last mile ping will be a tiny bit smaller, depending on your line quality.

alchemist53

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#1064582 13-Jun-2014 00:31

Unfortunately that has not been my experience...

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=82&topicid=147234

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#1064587 13-Jun-2014 00:39

alchemist53: Unfortunately that has not been my experience...

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=82&topicid=147234

See my reply to your other thread. We don't have any intentional traffic management in place and haven't done for quite some time. No point in waking up old threads, we will still look at it as a fault. I've confirmed it as affecting my connection, no further proof required, this is the first report I've seen, what time did you first notice it when your power was restored?

Regards FireEngine

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#1064590 13-Jun-2014 00:56

Point taken that you don't traffic shape, I'm only happy to assume it's a fault (I assume you work for Orcon?) My power was restored at about 3pm today, it wasn't until about 9pm this evening I noticed the fault with P2P traffic. It is an unusual fault though because if I obfuscate P2P headers it works fine?

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#1064596 13-Jun-2014 01:06

alchemist53: Point taken that you don't traffic shape, I'm only happy to assume it's a fault (I assume you work for Orcon?) My power was restored at about 3pm today, it wasn't until about 9pm this evening I noticed the fault with P2P traffic. It is an unusual fault though because if I obfuscate P2P headers it works fine?

You can see he works for Orcon because of the little Shield under his avatar, and Orcon.

Some ISP employees on geekzone forget to set that field, but generally have a disclaimer in their signature or something. A couple don't even tell you and you have to figure it all out yourself... those ones drive me nuts.

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#1064602 13-Jun-2014 01:13

alchemist53: Point taken that you don't traffic shape, I'm only happy to assume it's a fault (I assume you work for Orcon?) My power was restored at about 3pm today, it wasn't until about 9pm this evening I noticed the fault with P2P traffic. It is an unusual fault though because if I obfuscate P2P headers it works fine?

Yes I'm Orcon staff. If Ok I'll update the other thread so everything is kept in one place....

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#1064610 13-Jun-2014 01:20

Okay no prob

Ramjet007

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#1064629 13-Jun-2014 06:02

I max my Torrects all the time depending on the seed speed. I moved from a 200gb plan to unlimited and noticed no change in speed or MMO game performance (ADSL2).

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#1064654 13-Jun-2014 08:12

Sounddude:

3) The last mile ping will be a tiny bit smaller, depending on your line quality.

You could actually end up with slightly higher last-mile ping on VDSL, if you end up on, say, one of the 16ms DLM profiles.