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samdouglas

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#151115 14-Aug-2014 12:33
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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

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johntynz
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  #1108302 14-Aug-2014 12:34
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awesome?



samdouglas

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  #1108312 14-Aug-2014 12:39
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haha sorry i pressed submit accidentally before entering anything in the body ;)

fixed.

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  #1108335 14-Aug-2014 12:48
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What fantastic news for you. Can't speak to the VDSL, but still what a great surprise for you today!




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  #1108339 14-Aug-2014 12:52
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networkn: What fantastic news for you. Can't speak to the VDSL, but still what a great surprise for you today!



Yup I am pretty chuffed! :)  I just hope it isnt temporary!

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  #1108342 14-Aug-2014 12:54
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looks good, providing the cabinet is vdsl capable looks like it "could" work, once one of the recognised staff here chime in, should PM them your address to get a manual prequalification check done, cos i know the auto one will still say no, with it being so recently upgraded

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  #1108356 14-Aug-2014 13:08
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welcome to the internet :P ADSL2+ ftw





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  #1108395 14-Aug-2014 13:53
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Should be. I've got a rural customer off an RBI cabinet getting 30/10 VDSL connection.




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  #1108397 14-Aug-2014 13:56
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forgot to ask, does OP have a master filter :PPPP





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  #1108425 14-Aug-2014 14:29
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l43a2: forgot to ask, does OP have a master filter :PPPP


yeah according to the Chorus installer dude we do - also dont have anything else connected - no phones etc.

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  #1108427 14-Aug-2014 14:31
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coffeebaron: Should be. I've got a rural customer off an RBI cabinet getting 30/10 VDSL connection.


That would be perfect - its just the upload that I am mostly concerned about - for dropbox/flickr etc.

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  #1109565 16-Aug-2014 17:30
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As I found out personally, rural connections are a bit more tolerant for VDSL, you stats are pretty good so I'd say it should be possible, I get around 26/8 on a connection that on a line worse than that.

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  #1109569 16-Aug-2014 17:38
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yep, looking at your modem stats, your set for vdsl!


your biggest issue will be electric fences along the way, if your aiming for upload though, absolutely a good move to make.


generally rural lines have less crosstalk, so that helps a bit with vdsl too :)




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samdouglas

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  #1110657 18-Aug-2014 16:59
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Just an update - called telecom and I have a chorus tech coming Friday to hook up my VDSL! Whoop!

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  #1110661 18-Aug-2014 17:02
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Awesome stuff, let us know how it goes :D

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  #1110708 18-Aug-2014 18:37
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VDSL is awesome, good choice :)

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