So a guy from Chorus has been down at our local cabinet for the RBI upgrade.
I was getting a not too terrible 6.5 mbps (out in rural part of kapiti)
and suddenly today there was a broadband outage and I rebooted my router and its now synced at 16513 kbit :)

the line attenuation has gone down from i think about 30 to now 10 dB down and 6 dB up... 

Just wondered if this sounds like it would be good enough for VDSL? I spoke to a tech a while back who said we might be able to get VDSL out here after the cabinet upgrade if the signal was good enough...

heres my current sync stats:

Line standard                                ADSL2+
Channel type                                Interleaved 
Downstream line rate (kbit/s)         16513
Upstream line rate (kbit/s)             989
Downstream SNR (dB)                   12.1
Upstream SNR (dB)                       12.8
Downstream line attenuation (dB)   10
Upstream line attenuation (dB)       5.9
Downstream output power (dBmV) 18.8
Upstream output power (dBmV)      12.1
Downstream CRC                           0
Upstream CRC                               0
Downstream FEC                            0
Upstream FEC                                0