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  #1577398 20-Jun-2016 21:02
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Teza:

 

Interestingly the Vodafone website now says speeds only up to 50Mbps down may be possible on cable...if thats the case then how come they are still charging me for 130/10?

 

 

They ditched the 130Mbps plan in favour of 100Mbps ages ago, but existing customers on the 130Mbps stayed on it (and I think pay more on the old rates as well unless Vodafone changed that).  You'll find you can choose the 100Mbps plan on their website by clicking the little '+' next to where it says "Up to 50Mbps...".  It's not clear at all that the plus and minus next to that text is a toggle, pretty bad design choice on an otherwise good bundle option selector.

 

 




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  #1577400 20-Jun-2016 21:03
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Island Bay, cable 100/10, node WKH, aprx. 9pm

Four days after the upgrade:

Day 1 - Friday - good:



Day 2 - Saturday - better:



Day 3 - Sunday - rubbish:



Day 4 - Monday - good:



The problem with cable is its unpredictability / unreliability - you never knoiw when you're going to get a "good" night.

 

 EDIT:  These stats are matched by nPerf results.





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  #1577405 20-Jun-2016 21:10
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BarTender: <snip>  Geeks have put up for it for over 1 year. The average person probably doesn't notice.  <snip>

 

 

Every cable user that I know in Island Bay has complained about congestion (not in those words) - and most of them are not geeks. They just want something that works.

 

They tend to only notice it when congestion is very severe - geeks spot it sooner.

 

 





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  #1577409 20-Jun-2016 21:28
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I just submitted a complaint through TDR, figure I may as well try and get something more than the $20 discount Vodafone gave me out of this.  Hopefully I'll get the service for nearly nothing until it works properly, or even better I'll pay full price for a working VDSL connection which they refused to try and put through for me.

 

 


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  #1577624 21-Jun-2016 12:33
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My 50Mbps cable in Maupuia (Wellington 6022) was so bad last night that at times speedtest would not connect.

 

Is there any way to know which node I am on and if it is due to be upgraded.  The congestion is really bad during the evening.





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  #1577643 21-Jun-2016 13:19
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Just found out I'm on node W40

 

Middle of the day result, wish it would last all day

 


 
 
 

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  #1577647 21-Jun-2016 13:24
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How do you know which node you are on and what the upgrade status is?

 

 

 

DjShadow:

 

Just found out I'm on node W40

 

Middle of the day result, wish it would last all day

 

 





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  #1577648 21-Jun-2016 13:26
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I asked the person in the complaints team I was dealing with, otherwise you can ask @mikehales


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  #1577868 21-Jun-2016 19:33
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This is a good result for this time of night

 


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  #1577893 21-Jun-2016 19:43
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DjShadow:

 

Just found out I'm on node W40

 

Middle of the day result, wish it would last all day

 

 

 

 

 

That would explain the similar issues we have been seeing! 

 

@MikeHales - Do you have any news for us?


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  #1577901 21-Jun-2016 20:10
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Has node W40 ever been upgraded? I was just doing a search on Geekzone to see if W40 was ever mentioned on the lists posted by past staff members and can't find any mention of it....

 

If it hasn't then can pull the positive that an upgrade hasn't be saturated already 


 
 
 
 

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  #1577914 21-Jun-2016 20:24
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From memory, it was "upgraded" as part of the work that was done last year which made things better for about a month or so until it got smashed and hit 100% utilization. VF tech support (depending on who you get) do have access to their monitoring tools and I was informed when I called about 2 incidents ago that our W40 node has been 100% smashed for about 3 months now.


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  #1577957 21-Jun-2016 21:19
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Island Bay, cable 100/10, node WKH, aprx. 9pm

Five days after the upgrade:

Day 1 - Friday - good:



Day 2 - Saturday - better:



Day 3 - Sunday - rubbish:



Day 4 - Monday - good:



Day 5 - Tuesday - good *:

 



 

[*  this is an 8:30pm measurement - I couldn't get OOKLA to work at 9pm]





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  #1577961 21-Jun-2016 21:26
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This is so annoying and becoming more frequent.

 

Just now some pages wouldn't load or half loaded.

 

Lasted about 15 mins.


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  #1577965 21-Jun-2016 21:32
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Lukanize:

 

This is so annoying and becoming more frequent.

 

Just now some pages wouldn't load or half loaded.

 

Lasted about 15 mins.

 

 

That's what happened to me at about 9pm. (see my last post)





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