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Kodiack
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  #1535853 19-Apr-2016 17:25
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Something's up with the latency today. I'm seeing occasional 200+ ms pings to Google, and latency to Wellington stuff is ~2-3x higher than normal.




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  #1535856 19-Apr-2016 17:30
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Flatmate just got back and he's having latency issues too. Seriously, Vodafone, what the hell is this crap?!

 

 

Bandwidth is sitting around 100 Mbps, but stuff is still uncomfortably slow because of this latency issue. Every day it's a new bloody issue with this ISP.


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  #1535862 19-Apr-2016 17:39
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Restarted the modem again. It's slightly more reasonable, but still far from what it should be. And at least now automatic ping tests are going to NZ servers instead. >_>

 

 

I'm unhappy with both the latency and the jitter, though. I'd expect lower latency than that to Sydney, let alone someplace within the country. Meanwhile, a friend on VDSL...

 

 

Crap like this is why it's completely and entirely disgusting for Vodafone to advertise their cable Internet as comparable to UFB. I don't know of anyone on fibre that's had anywhere near these number of constant issues.




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  #1535873 19-Apr-2016 17:49
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FWIW I'm on 100mb fibre in Christchurch and I can't get better results to that TGA server.

 

I suspect it's scoring us down for not installing Java.

 

 





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  #1535875 19-Apr-2016 17:51
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Lias:

 

FWIW I'm on 100mb fibre in Christchurch and I can't get better results to that TGA server.

 

I suspect it's scoring us down for not installing Java.

 

 

Naw, the asterisk just denotes that packet loss wasn't tested. The latency and jitter measurements are the same with or without Java.


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  #1535882 19-Apr-2016 17:55
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Kodiack:

 

Lias:

 

FWIW I'm on 100mb fibre in Christchurch and I can't get better results to that TGA server.

 

I suspect it's scoring us down for not installing Java.

 

 

Naw, the asterisk just denotes that packet loss wasn't tested. The latency and jitter measurements are the same with or without Java.

 

 

Yes, however the "line quality" is reduced when Pingtest can't test for packet loss.

 

 


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  #1535883 19-Apr-2016 17:58
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Ah, I see what you mean. I'm pretty sure they used to show "A*" for well-performing, low-latency/low-jitter connections. Maybe it's a semi-recent change? Either way, the letter grade doesn't mean much. My ping and jitter are still pathetic when compared to what they should be.


 
 
 

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  #1535945 19-Apr-2016 19:14
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Already looking grim at 7pm.

 

 

It will be interesting to see what that translates to at 9pm.

 

2degrees connection is in. Only ADSL2 until the port is upgraded. 13Mbps. Not great, not terrible.


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  #1536050 19-Apr-2016 21:27
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ramboky:

 

resting to see what that translates to at 9pm.

 

2degrees connection is in. Only ADSL2 until the port is upgraded. 13Mbps. Not great, not terrible.

 

 

13 Mbps would be fantastic about now.

 


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  #1536056 19-Apr-2016 21:35
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Not so hot here either. 50/2.

 


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  #1536069 19-Apr-2016 21:46
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Island Bay 100/10 at 9.45pm:

 

 

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  #1536071 19-Apr-2016 21:49
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Don't worry! It'll be fixed in two weeks! foot-in-mouth


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  #1536079 19-Apr-2016 21:57
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Vodafone's High Speed cable offering vs 2degrees ADSL2:

 

 

What an embarrassment. I should get a date on the VDSL upgrade tomorrow, will let you folks know how it goes.


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  #1536097 19-Apr-2016 22:24
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Definitely something up my connection is normally good. Its the latency that's killing me Literally can not play FPS games...

 

 

 


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Even when the cable "numbers" are better than the ADSL, things like YouTube might still be functionally better on the ADSL due to Vodafone's naff routing to CDNs. Can you confirm?

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