Telecom Fiber?

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stw

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#116216 22-Apr-2013 10:30

Hi There,

Just want to find out what ISP has the best international speed. I don't mind paying extra for it.

Has any one got some speed test results to the west coast of the USA on telecom ufb?

Have been a Orcon customer in the past but I'm just over their customer service..

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#803551 22-Apr-2013 10:30

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#803576 22-Apr-2013 10:55

We consistently do pretty well and punch well above our weight in regards to speed and customer experience.

Any particular servers you're looking for a speed test off? As I have a few colleagues on the UFB service already and can get them to take speed tests. But I would have expected that a DSL line with interleaving off would be pretty similar to the line speeds you would get on UFB.

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#803585 22-Apr-2013 11:06

Telecom, Snap and Vodafone/TelstraClear are my favourites as ISP. Premium bandwidth as I like to call it via any of these.

Only Telecom and Snap have UFB offering out of the above choices so you will have to check whether they offer UFB in your area.

Do whatever you want to do man.

stw

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#803590 22-Apr-2013 11:08

If you could do a test to San francisco hosted by Monkey brains

https://www.speedtest.net/result/2661001842.png

stw

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#803592 22-Apr-2013 11:10

Im currently on telstra VDSL

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#804644 24-Apr-2013 05:45

100/50 telecom fibre

(Rotorua)

Tarawera Ultra 2015 done, bring on 2016

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#804660 24-Apr-2013 07:46

XNet Fiber

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#804675 24-Apr-2013 08:29

Telecom...

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stw

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#804708 24-Apr-2013 09:02

I'm surprised with the latency on the telecom speed test and how good the xnet one was.

I would off thought that telecom owning the southern cross cable that they would have a better performance..

stw

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#804714 24-Apr-2013 09:10

Is there any point getting a 100/50Mbps UFB connection when 95% websites / services i use are all hosted off shore. And all the speed test max out at 10Mbps.. Would i see any difference on the 30/10 connection?

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#804717 24-Apr-2013 09:13

stw: Is there any point getting a 100/50Mbps UFB connection when 95% websites / services i use are all hosted off shore. And all the speed test max out at 10Mbps.. Would i see any difference on the 30/10 connection?

ISPs invest a shedload in caching, so things like youtube, lots of pron, torrents etc etc get brought over to NZ so NZers can access them as if they were local, which is awesome!

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#804726 24-Apr-2013 09:16

I thought about just getting the 30/10 as well, but while the data is essentially unlimited I figured the entry level 100/50 plan would be nice for the reason already stated (full speed to caches) a speed test for me using the Telecom hosted node is 94/45, the first night I had it I installed my entire steam library, just because I could.

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#804815 24-Apr-2013 11:53

I would also include where in NZ you're based... As those in the south island or even Wellington will get an extra few ms on latency than those in Auckland.

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#804817 24-Apr-2013 11:58

Good point Peter - I'm in Chch...

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#804831 24-Apr-2013 12:03

Im in Parnell Auckland

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