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#185261 16-Nov-2015 12:01

Spark has released a new higher speed Fibre plan called 'Ultra Fibre 200 Plus'

Offering 200/200 speeds

http://www.spark.co.nz/shop/internet/plans-and-pricing/

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#1428793 16-Nov-2015 12:01

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#1428844 16-Nov-2015 12:39

Tempting although I don't really use that much for uploading. Good to have for the future though.

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#1428846 16-Nov-2015 12:41

Damn....that's tempting.

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#1434649 25-Nov-2015 17:13

Anyone jumped on this yet and able to provide any screenshots of speedtest results or detail what their experience has been like with it?

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#1434654 25-Nov-2015 17:31

Too late really. People I know who wanted this just moved to bigpipe.

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#1434656 25-Nov-2015 17:44

Extra 30 bucks not really worth it

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#1434667 25-Nov-2015 17:50

benokobi: Extra 30 bucks not really worth it

Extra $20 isn't it? Assuming you're comparing to their 200/20 plans

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#1434668 25-Nov-2015 17:52

staticnz:
benokobi: Extra 30 bucks not really worth it

Extra $20 isn't it? Assuming you're comparing to their 200/20 plans

Oops. Yeah was comparing naked to the 200/200 landline plan. Might consider it now as everything is becoming more cloud focused these days.

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#1434669 25-Nov-2015 17:54

benokobi:
staticnz:
benokobi: Extra 30 bucks not really worth it

Extra $20 isn't it? Assuming you're comparing to their 200/20 plans

Oops. Yeah was comparing naked to the 200/200 landline plan. Might consider it now as everything is becoming more cloud focused these days.

Yeah its pretty tempting for cloud backups etc.. I had 200/200 when I lived in Singapore - it was awesome and only $40/month

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#1434837 25-Nov-2015 21:27

Have submitted the request to change, still waiting for it to be activated. Will post stats once live.

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#1435270 26-Nov-2015 15:05

I moved to it over a month ago however I am still only getting 100/100 but being billed for 200/200. Called the faults team and they say both Ultra Fasts Fibre system and spark indicating I am on 200/200 but their speed test to spark.co.nz/speedtest shows nothing different than what i was getting on 100/100
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#1435347 26-Nov-2015 16:27

n00dy: I moved to it over a month ago however I am still only getting 100/100 but being billed for 200/200. Called the faults team and they say both Ultra Fasts Fibre system and spark indicating I am on 200/200 but their speed test to spark.co.nz/speedtest shows nothing different than what i was getting on 100/100
Any ideas

PM me and I will take a look and see what I can see.

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#1435348 26-Nov-2015 16:28

n00dy: I moved to it over a month ago however I am still only getting 100/100 but being billed for 200/200. Called the faults team and they say both Ultra Fasts Fibre system and spark indicating I am on 200/200 but their speed test to spark.co.nz/speedtest shows nothing different than what i was getting on 100/100
Any ideas

Do you definitely have a Gigabit router and a PC plugged in via Ethernet that's negotiating at 1Gbps?

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#1435397 26-Nov-2015 17:13

sbiddle:
n00dy: I moved to it over a month ago however I am still only getting 100/100 but being billed for 200/200. Called the faults team and they say both Ultra Fasts Fibre system and spark indicating I am on 200/200 but their speed test to spark.co.nz/speedtest shows nothing different than what i was getting on 100/100
Any ideas

Do you definitely have a Gigabit router and a PC plugged in via Ethernet that's negotiating at 1Gbps?

That was my first thought too - I have a pretty long (and old, and generally dodgy) ethernet cable between my Router and PC, and need to watch the sync as it fairly regularly renegotiates back to 100mbps rather than 1Gbps.

re: Firefuze: Can't wait to see what you get. :) I'm not anticipating any issues really, I'm on 200/20 at the moment and get pretty dang close to as advertised - but still curious to see if the upload follows suit at 200/200.

Take care,

-Naithin,.

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