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#1617558 25-Aug-2016 20:09

Really feeling the congestion here tonight. The speed test final result isn't outright terrible, but it sat at ~15 Mbps until near the end. YouTube has been immensely frustrating this evening.

quickymart:
:( So are you going to bite the bullet and move?

That's still very much one of my goals, yes. Life has been throwing curveballs left, right, and centre for a couple of weeks, though. I won't be moving until this summer at the earliest, when a group of friends will otherwise be willing to look into flats.

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#1617565 25-Aug-2016 20:22

Still running good here

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#1617570 25-Aug-2016 20:33

Seems to be performing ok here. 50/2 tested via ethernet. Some big fluctuations in download speed

but overall ok?

-j

EDIT: this is Island Bay I'm talkin' here.

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#1617579 25-Aug-2016 20:49

Ugh. It's been pretty good of late, but this isn't a good sign:

Island Bay, 50/2, was tested over wifi but I can usually get 50/2 that way pretty easily.

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#1617580 25-Aug-2016 20:50

Another slow night in Waikanae on the oversold Krapi Vodafone cable. 9 MB/s, getting less than a fifth of what I have paid for. We waited patiently for Vodafone to upgrade the network, and still we wait. Since I only get a 5th of the speed I signed up for I feel like paying a 5th of my next bill. Perhaps if we all did that, things might improve a bit faster.

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#1617633 26-Aug-2016 00:36

KiwiTim:

Another slow night in Waikanae on the oversold Krapi Vodafone cable. 9 MB/s, getting less than a fifth of what I have paid for. We waited patiently for Vodafone to upgrade the network, and still we wait. Since I only get a 5th of the speed I signed up for I feel like paying a 5th of my next bill. Perhaps if we all did that, things might improve a bit faster.

Tim

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I am sure if you call them they will adjust your invoices accordingly until fixed.

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#1617907 26-Aug-2016 14:31

BREAKING NEWS:

TrueNet July 2016 Urban Broadband Report

Chart 8: Fibre, Cable, and Copper (DSL) File Download Speed

VF cable 100Mbps = broken red line (note the recurring 9pm speed dip)
VF cable 50Mbps = solid red line (no speed dip)

(The "110%" performance of cable 100Mbps may be because the "100Mbps" test sample includes some volunteers who are still connected at the old 130Mbps rate)

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#1619347 29-Aug-2016 21:38

Island Bay, node WKH, 100/10Mbps cable, 9pm:

Ten weeks after the WKH node upgrade, things have gone horribly wrong, with rapidly increasing peak congestion:

Via ethernet, and after a modem reboot:

DOCSIS 3.1, we need you.

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#1619349 29-Aug-2016 21:41

Getting ~25 Mbps here in Island Bay, but speed tests fluctuate like crazy at peak hours. The hour or so I spent on YouTube today was quite miserable. Lots of videos took ages to start loading, and responsiveness was all over the place. Had difficulty watching a 240p video with millions of views, while a 1080p video with a few hundred thousand worked like a charm.

General web browsing seems to be okay tonight, though, so at least there's that. Hoping for some good news for Island Bay customers soon.

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#1619398 30-Aug-2016 07:01

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BREAKING NEWS:

TrueNet July 2016 Urban Broadband Report

Chart 8: Fibre, Cable, and Copper (DSL) File Download Speed

VF cable 100Mbps = broken red line (note the recurring 9pm speed dip)
VF cable 50Mbps = solid red line (no speed dip)

(The "110%" performance of cable 100Mbps may be because the "100Mbps" test sample includes some volunteers who are still connected at the old 130Mbps rate)

This to me shows that 100meg users have peak throttling policy's applied as 100 and 50 meg users are on the same cable. Kinda sad\concerning to see this.

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#1619403 30-Aug-2016 07:30

Concerning that fibre 200 never obtains 100% in that table. Why is it even an option, why someone needs an EIR connection like that is beyond me.

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#1619406 30-Aug-2016 07:37

johny99: Concerning that fibre 200 never obtains 100% in that table. Why is it even an option, why someone needs an EIR connection like that is beyond me.

Not really, considering the amount of hassle that speedtest goes thru to get the big numbers, I would never expect to see 200 on a single device at once. Its made for households with many people using it at once, and 200 is way better than 100 for those situations where someone is gaming when someone else has steam downloading etc.

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#1619407 30-Aug-2016 07:41

@paulst why does it say that? it just shows the average speed of the cable network has reduced to under 100mbps and this affects the 130/100mbps users but wont affect the 50mbps users as their speed is lower than the current capable throughput of the cable network.

nothing to do with throttling IMO.

think of it as a motorway. and people can go either 50, 100 or 130kph. now in good times everyone can go this speed, when it gets a little busier as shown in the picture above those going 100 and 130 have to slow down a little but those doing 50 can still do 50. when the average speed drops below 50 that's when everyone will experience issues

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#1619408 30-Aug-2016 07:44

johny99: Concerning that fibre 200 never obtains 100% in that table. Why is it even an option, why someone needs an EIR connection like that is beyond me.

probably a few reasons, how things are connected, how its measured. If I recall the test size on the probes just isn't big enough to allow the connection to ramp up to full speed in the time it takes to download the file (I believe its only 7mb or something like that) vs speedtest which is a 50-100+mb file.

so I believe you can put that down to the testing methodology vs the actual product

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#1619409 30-Aug-2016 07:47

johny99: Concerning that fibre 200 never obtains 100% in that table. Why is it even an option, why someone needs an EIR connection like that is beyond me.

Once you start testing over 100Mbps you really start to face limitions with the testing methodology used by Truenet. You also need to accept the real world reality that 200Mbps across the UFB network is not guaranteed 24/7 and is faced with performance targets clearly defined by Chorus.

There is nowever very little use for such a speed, even in a busy home.

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