All You Can Eat speeds

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Wify

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#74991 11-Jan-2011 13:12

So, I am moving to a new flat. I am looking for a good amount of bandwidth as there will be 6 of us, and I am accustomed to having a connection to myself (20gb and I make it last!). Obviously, I am going to lose this luxury.

Right now this seems good to me, because I do NOT want to run out of bandwidth half way through the month, nor are the people I am moving in with tech-savvy enough to even understand what bandwidth is on a basic level.

I am wondering; I REALLY don't need great speeds. Can you get 50kb/s on torrents easily with this? How long do youtube videos take to load? I will be living near Canterbury University, does anyone know what the connection is like there?

I don't need instant internet. I can wait 10 minutes for a 10 minute youtube video to load, but anymore than that and it is pushing it.

gehenna

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#426104 11-Jan-2011 13:16

Isn't tons of this info already available in the AYCE thread?

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Wify

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#426108 11-Jan-2011 13:22

Not really. I looked for it, but speeds will change depending on where you live. I was on telecoms big time and that other one they offered, and I got way different speeds compared to my boyfriend. He had to wait 40 minutes to load a 3 minute youtube video, I had to wait a couple of minutes for it to buffer. I got OK download speeds, 50kb/s. When it went down to 20kb/s eventually towards the end that didn't bother me either, I would just let it all run overnight and it'd be done in the morning. We still got like 40gb out of their internet supposedly.

I'm willing to take slower speeds for access to it whenever I want. Most people just seem to be calling it "bad", but what is "bad" to others is completely bearable to me :)

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#426111 11-Jan-2011 13:32

what speeds are ok for you ALONE would be negligible should even ONE of your other 5 flattie decide to click on something large ... then it becomes near-ZERO - have you thought about that?

Wify

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#426119 11-Jan-2011 13:52

I have but I am not much of a "geek" so I didn't know if it worked like that or not :) so if one of us starts to download something big, surfing speeds just get ripped from us? That ain't so good!

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#426563 12-Jan-2011 15:46

Slingshot speed is pretty slow at peak times but do vary alot, and torrents vary even more as well as blocking everything else. There is no estimate of speed that would be a reliable prediction of actual performance, but don't expect it to be fast at all in evenings or weekends, and remember its shared bandwidth that can be congested by downloads.

Time to find a new industry!

tomgeeknz

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#426567 12-Jan-2011 15:57

What about Snap Naked Broadband B (http://www.snap.net.nz/home/naked-dsl/) and then some data packs and management like this: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/tonyhughes/7524 ??

Clai

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#427152 14-Jan-2011 14:18

From the experience we have had in Thorndon, Wellington, I can say AYCE is as alot of people have said:

The good:
-Web browsing good
-gaming good, minimal connection drops
-non-youtube streaming decent, likely cached (places like IGN)
-Steam downloads at line speed when the file is on the Slingshot content server
-Line speed for anything cached, you will know when you get something ;)

The bad:
-Slow youtube times for non-cached videos
-Average-slow DDL files (20-120KB/s), throttled depending on provider
-Torrents very slow unless cached, active torrents cause issues with game connections, browsing, web programs such as Skype and Steam (frequent disconnects, steam will not detect an internet connection)
-Everything slows right down between 5-10pm (connection is often consistent however)
-Severe upload throttling on some traffic? (Shoutcast upload for me is throttled beyond reasonable use)

The ugly:
-The whole good list is completely invalidated when torrents are running

It's good for us since we only use it for Steam/games/browsing. We are synced at ~12Mbit.

yochankr

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#427286 14-Jan-2011 21:45

I wouldnt go with Slingshot if I were you.

Seriously..after all the bad feedbacks from geekzone and the herald?

AYCE plan is pretty useless when you have 5 other flatties with you.

You will be running close to 56k whe you are all surfing.

And like someone has already pointed out, it is very unstable.

So I would look elsewhere for you ISP.

faceleg

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#430575 24-Jan-2011 13:51

Yep, slow and unstable.