r2b2:

 

helenback:

 

I am super p***sd because I just got cable today (in Miramar) and feel like Ive just made the biggest mistake after reading this (granted I probably should have done more research) but my question is this - why isn't this on the news/fair go/somekindofconsumershow?! Vodafone is offering this as a "ultra fast broadband" when it clearly is not - surely there has to be some legality in place here? Something needs to be done to let people know so they can stop from purchasing this service from them because if I had known this was such a huge issue I would have stayed a million miles away.

 

 

At the moment, not all nodes are affected and those that are are affected to a lesser or greater extent.

 

The best bet is to run some speed tests at various times over the next day or so and, if you find that the speed is nowhere near what is expected, I'd say you'd have good cause to cancel your contract with Vodafone without having to pay any break fees.

 

To give you a point of comparison, here are my speeds for tonight (Island Bay, 100/10 Mbps cable, tested on www.speedtest.net using the Vodafone Wellington server)

  off-peak  100/10  (Mbps down/up)

  5pm  78/10
  6pm  65/10
  7pm  59/10
  8pm  16/10
  9pm  14/10

This shows severe "cable congestion"