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RunningMan

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#318916 4-Mar-2025 19:36
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https://www.mightymobile.co.nz/

 

Down from the usual $40 per month for this plan. Not quite as sharp a deal as the previous $25 for 50Mb/s but probably still pretty tempting for some wanting to move from One with their recent price increase. 10Mb/s should be pretty usable for a lot of users.


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  #3350125 4-Mar-2025 19:39
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Agreed, this is a decent deal that will suit a lot of people.  To confirm, the speed is 10Mbps, not 10Mb/s.




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  #3350131 4-Mar-2025 19:51
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demeter23:

 

To confirm, the speed is 10Mbps, not 10Mb/s.

 

 

What?


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  #3350397 5-Mar-2025 12:03
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@RunningMan

 

Only recently found out about these guys but no feedback so far.

 

https://monstermobile.nz/




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  #3350409 5-Mar-2025 12:53
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I found the slowest plan from Mighty Mobile were not good enough for music streaming despite 10 megabit being well above even a 24/192 flac streams rate, only the fastest one works 100% for even the basic hifi level in tidal, the faster plan would often pause and buffer I suspect that its more the apps fault as it doesnt keep the downloads running but trys to burst it and triggers some limiting.

 

Same thing happens when scrolling instagram, massive pauses of nothing happening on the 2 slower plans unless you moderate your scrolling speed.

 

Try it our before you commit to it incase you find that its not good enough.

 

 





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  #3350506 5-Mar-2025 17:26
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ajw:

 

@RunningMan

 

Only recently found out about these guys but no feedback so far.

 

https://monstermobile.nz/

 

 

I'm not saying it's the same person, but Google the name on the WHOIS for that domain. I sure wouldn't be giving them any money. What's their registered company? What network are they on? I mean... they don't even have a terms of service which is a pretty big red blag.






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  #3350508 5-Mar-2025 17:30
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CamH:

 

ajw:

 

@RunningMan

 

Only recently found out about these guys but no feedback so far.

 

https://monstermobile.nz/

 

 

I'm not saying it's the same person, but Google the name on the WHOIS for that domain. I sure wouldn't be giving them any money. What's their registered company? What network are they on? I mean... they don't even have a terms of service which is a pretty big red blag.

 

 

cant even load it at work, the fortithing firewall has such a good opinion of them.





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  #3350510 5-Mar-2025 17:40
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RunningMan:

 

demeter23:

 

To confirm, the speed is 10Mbps, not 10Mb/s.

 

 

What?

 



Sounds like you aren't quite sure what RunningMan meant?

A transfer rate written as Mb/s would often be read as Megabytes a second.
vs Mbps (as on their website) specifies 10 Megabits a second.

So 10 Mbps is a lot less exciting that 10Mb/s  
Since there are 8 bits to a byte.   That makes 10Mbps equal to 1.25Mb/s

So I'd take that comment as confirming (who read it that way) that the offer isn't for 10 Megabytes a second,   but is for 10 Megabits a second.


 
 
 

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  #3350513 5-Mar-2025 17:50
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  #3350516 5-Mar-2025 17:58
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alavaliant:

A transfer rate written as Mb/s would often be read as Megabytes a second. vs Mbps (as on their website) specifies 10 Megabits a second.

 

If Mb/s is being read as megabytes per second then it's being read entirely incorrectly by the reader.

 

M (capital) is the abbreviation for the prefix mega.

 

b (lower case) is the abbreviation for bit.

 

B (capital) is the abbreviation for byte (i.e 8 bits).

 

10Mb/s is Ten megabits per second.

 

10Mbps is also Ten megabits per second.

 

Neither abbreviation represents megabytes per second. That would require a capital B.

 

Mightymobile list the plan as 10Mbps. That is 10 megabits per second, not 10 megabytes per second (i.e 80 megabits per second)

 

 

 

My reaction was because 10Mb/s is exactly the same as 10Mbps. They are two variations of the same thing. One uses the slash to represent the Latin per and the other abbreviates using the first letter, lower case p.

 

 


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  #3350533 5-Mar-2025 19:03
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RunningMan:

 

My reaction was because 10Mb/s is exactly the same as 10Mbps. They are two variations of the same thing. One uses the slash to represent the Latin per and the other abbreviates using the first letter, lower case p.

 

 

it's also rather incorrect to use megabytes per second to quantify bandwidth / throughput / data rate in the netherworld.

 

 


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  #3350537 5-Mar-2025 19:10
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I wouldn't say incorrect so much, but so uncommon / infrequent as to be confusing if it is used. 


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  #3350540 5-Mar-2025 19:22
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richms:

 

I found the slowest plan from Mighty Mobile were not good enough for music streaming despite 10 megabit being well above even a 24/192 flac streams rate

 

 

10mbps is ample for Spotify and joining a team's call audio only via Bluetooth this offer is very tempting after been a Bellsouth/Vodafone/OneNZ customer for many years

 

 





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  #3350542 5-Mar-2025 19:24
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Whereas mbps indicates millibits per second, or bits every thousand seconds. So be careful what you sign up for ;)


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  #3350545 5-Mar-2025 19:33
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nztim:10mbps is ample for Spotify and joining a team's call audio only via Bluetooth this offer is very tempting after been a Bellsouth/Vodafone/OneNZ customer for many years

 

 

Given this thread seems to have gone somewhat pedantic, I can't not point out that should be Mbps not mbps ;-)

 

That aside, I agree, 10Mb/s should be plenty for what you describe, even Facetime uses 4Mb/s streams so video calling should also be fine. I think what @richms is pointing out is that in practice it doesn't work as well. I expect the issue is whatever device Mightymobile use to do the shaping and how aggressive it is.


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  #3350547 5-Mar-2025 19:39
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RunningMan:

 

I wouldn't say incorrect so much, but so uncommon / infrequent as to be confusing if it is used. 

 

 

well, data moves one bit at a time... 

 

but let's go back to the topic. i thought this was a good plan for quite a few people i know. then i heard the comment about Mighty's lowest tier plans posing practical usability issues.


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