[TelstraClear] TelstraClear to upgrade CHCH cable customers to 15mbps in October.

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#67076 27-Aug-2010 16:44

See announcement here: 15mbps down and 2mbps up.

http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/company-info/media-release-template.cfm?newsid=368

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#373673 27-Aug-2010 17:08

awesome news if you live in christchurch and within the existing cable network, stink if your anywhere else for that matter.

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#373746 27-Aug-2010 20:43

Customers on 4 Mbps/2 Mbps cleary will benefit the most. We'll have to wait and see what they will offer to 10 Mbps/2 Mbps & 25 Mbps/2 Mbps users.

Download speed aside, let's hope they have addressed the issue of international bandwidths.

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#373783 27-Aug-2010 22:06

Oh, cool, so if this is anything like when Christchurch got the 25Mbit plan, Wellington will get it in only a few years.

On a related note, TelstraClear's cable speeds aren't following Nielsen's Law (the "Moore's Law" of internet bandwidth), which states an average of 50% increase in bandwidth every year. Using 2004 as a base-band @ 10Mbps, in 2010 we should be at ~114Mbps which is certainly possible with DOCSIS3. Even using a much more conservative "doubling every 2 years", we get 80Mbps, which is very easily achieved with DOCSIS3. 15Mbps in late 2010 vs 10Mbps in early 2004 is a growth rate of a whopping 6.5% per year. BTW the 25Mbit plan is not comparable to this at any rate, since it's in a different price range.

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#373883 28-Aug-2010 10:45

All very well, but their international bandwidth is so flakey or oversubscribed that it's a bit pointless. Youtube and others are buffering again often (including today), especially with embedded videos, the continued stalling of random http connections, that infernal proxy.

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#373928 28-Aug-2010 13:59

I would much prefer a larger cap then faster speed. 80GB just doesnt cut it.

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#374758 31-Aug-2010 11:05

If its anything like the pvr, then chch will get 15mbps in oct 2012.

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#375142 1-Sep-2010 01:10

October 2012 that's a bit optimistic given Telstraclear's recent track record heh.

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#375290 1-Sep-2010 13:28

We might be getting changed from 80 gig to 90gig reading this.

http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/residential/inhome/packages/

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#375293 1-Sep-2010 13:37

Me too

I'm currently on the 10G Broadband only plan for $55, looks like its now 20GB for the same dosh.

http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/residential/inhome/internet/cable-broadband/plans.cfm

Never thought I'd say this but thanks Telstra, finally giving me something extra for nothing.

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#375296 1-Sep-2010 13:48

Hmmm, read TFA. It reads to me like everyone on cable gets this.

“The upgrade means that with effect from October 2010 all of our InHome broadband plans will now have a minimum speed of 15 megabits per second(mbps)downstream and 2mbps upstream."

As I am an inhome customer I take this to mean me...

Also called the call centre, despite the caps being advertised they apparently aren't available till 1 October....think that might be illegal...

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#375300 1-Sep-2010 13:50

I only wish they had someone who participated on this forum like our friends from Vodafone do...

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#375306 1-Sep-2010 14:15

I don't think they will have a legal issue, given that the subtitle of the page clearly states 'Pricing effective 1st Oct 2010'. Nevertheless, it would appear that they have increased both the speed and the allowance. That's good news. Let's keep our fingers crossed on international bandwidth.