Vodafone UFB not available despite Enable said so

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richms

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#1387486 14-Sep-2015 20:51

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The other factor which doesn't seem to be get significant attention is, while the last mile might be faster with UFB, wouldn't different ISP's have different capacity internationally depending on how much they choose to buy from Southern Cross? No point having 200Mbs to the ISP's pop, when their international links are overloaded or under-provisioned.

Things dont always have to go international. CDNs are all local. Yeah I wont get 200 megs clearing out my seedbox in luxemborgh but I will still get many 4k netflixes thru a fiber connection which I cant on my shoddy VDSL on corroded neglected copper.

Is content cached or on CDN's when you are using proxy services to access streaming sites in the US?

For example you are watching some TV show on Netflix (US) and that same show happens to be available on Netflix (NZ). I would have thought a local CDN would not help at all in this instance but since I don't know for certain, I am asking the question.

Then international speed is a factor.

No idea. I know that unotelly stopped me from getting 4k on netflix on my crappy connection, whereas it works without it. But it was still well capable of getting 1080 stuff when using unotelly.

Once I have a connection that is not less than netflix's recommended minimum I will give it another go, but for now no time to watch stuff and I think I have seen all of the 4k that interests me, which isnt a hell of a lot.

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#1387491 14-Sep-2015 21:01

If it were me I would still suggest to shop around for a UFB provider. I have been on Vodafone Cable and don't miss it in comparison to my 200/200 UFB connection through SnapDegrees.

When we were shopping around to buy a house my partner used to get peeved off for me for rejecting houses because they were either too far from a cabinet for VDSL or didn't have UFB coming within the next year but with how much legitimate traffic our household pumps through (with Netflix, Hulu, Lightbox especially) and the fact that her gaming addition is not affected with anyone on the network downloading she is really thankful we have UFB. Basically, it is the future and if it is available to you then get it. If Vodafone's retention team won't let you have it then shop around but get it installed, you'll be thankful you did.

I understand the business sense with trying to steer people away from getting UFB on Vodafone in cable areas but if somebody has their mind set on UFB they should be allowed to go for it.

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#1387517 14-Sep-2015 21:40

michaelmurfy: If it were me I would still suggest to shop around for a UFB provider. I have been on Vodafone Cable and don't miss it in comparison to my 200/200 UFB connection through SnapDegrees.

When we were shopping around to buy a house my partner used to get peeved off for me for rejecting houses because they were either too far from a cabinet for VDSL or didn't have UFB coming within the next year but with how much legitimate traffic our household pumps through (with Netflix, Hulu, Lightbox especially) and the fact that her gaming addition is not affected with anyone on the network downloading she is really thankful we have UFB. Basically, it is the future and if it is available to you then get it. If Vodafone's retention team won't let you have it then shop around but get it installed, you'll be thankful you did.

I understand the business sense with trying to steer people away from getting UFB on Vodafone in cable areas but if somebody has their mind set on UFB they should be allowed to go for it.

When I bought my current house in 2005 I made sure I could get TCL cable. Luckily the house choice matched what my wife wanted!

Now I have to wait till mid 2016 to get UFB and I'm not moving houses just to improve Internet. I guess I will have to put up with cable till then.

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#1387556 14-Sep-2015 21:55

What they should be doing if they want to sell cable without that horrible attitude

Offer both UFB and Cable
Make cable cheaper (By at least $20) and advertise it as nearly the same (but not the same) to make it attractive to people (cable is still good for the next few years once the upgrades have been completed) and they still reckon they're gonna get higher speeds soon

Otherwise they're digging their own grave.

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