Cabinet upgraded to VDSL! What do I need to get it at home?

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sbiddle

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#412942 5-Dec-2010 08:04

Damager: Anyone in the know if Telecom is going to be doing VDSL2 soon? My cabinet is now VDSL2 enabled. I live about 50 meters away from it :-) Current attenuation is 5db and 3db for downstream and upstream.

They are, but as mentioned above you'll have to wait until early 2011.

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#412947 5-Dec-2010 08:40

wreck90 "You could blow 20gb in a couple of hours."

IMHO that comment makes no sense wreck90

If you had say a 1GB file that you wish to download, on VDSL2 it will download faster. If you were on a 40Gb plan, your monthly files that you wish to download will be downloaded faster. Faster, more efficient, less time to wait.

Your comment implies that you download for the sake of downloading.

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#413431 6-Dec-2010 13:26

tdgeek: wreck90 "You could blow 20gb in a couple of hours."

IMHO that comment makes no sense wreck90

If you had say a 1GB file that you wish to download, on VDSL2 it will download faster. If you were on a 40Gb plan, your monthly files that you wish to download will be downloaded faster. Faster, more efficient, less time to wait.

Your comment implies that you download for the sake of downloading.

Consider the average non geeky person using youtube and tvnz on demand etc.

Higher speed allows HD video to be watched instead of SD (it may even auto detect and default to higher quality).

It's quite common for this sort of average non geek type person to not have any real notion of how much more data 720 or 1080 quality is using up vs 360.

We are looking at Australian data caps with envy now, Telstra stopped practising artifical scarcity and competition heated up.

When will Telecom stop playing artificial scarcity with ISP handover links?

The current limits (~45kps per subscriber + growth factor) mean any ISP with a average usage per user over 10GB will likely be suffering noticable congestion (See: Orcon, Xnet, Slingshot).

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