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Island Bay, cable 100/10, node WKH:
Day 5 after the upgrade
Full line speeds to WGT, AUK, SYD, MEL, LAX ...
... BUT multiple short outages from 3pm, requiring modem reboots, and slow page loading intermittently.
This NPerf speed test to Auckland (at 3pm) actually shows the start of an outage (the sudden fall to zero at right) halfway through the test :
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Kodiack:
<snip> Since Vodafone has been occasionally marketing the cable network as "UFB", does that mean that we'll have gigabit on October 1st too? ;)
They still do:
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Hah! Such a shame that Vodafone is still advertising cable as "UFB". At this rate, Vodafone will continue the trend of being about one order of magnitude slower than "real" UFB.
quickymart: I doubt that would happen, sadly.
Naw, I don't think so either, haha. My comment was pretty much entirely tongue-in-cheek. It's such a shame that Vodafone's continued investment still seems to keep it comfortably behind fibre, though. This isn't a surprise, but it's still disappointing.
That said, I am quite happy with the connection's performance since the node upgrades. I'm thankful that I have access to a connection that's finally now performing this well when we would otherwise be stuck with VDSL at best. Things have been responsive and latency has been low. Still looking forward to more bandwidth down the road, though, since it is a shared connection.
Also, if anything, hopefully UFB's pricing will encourage Vodafone to drop their monthly rates. We're back to paying something like $120 per month, while customers that can get fibre are able to get 7.5x as much download speed and 50x as much upload speed for half the price. If Vodafone wants to compete with areas that are getting fibre, they're not going to be able to do so at existing prices.
I'm not upset or anything, so please don't interpret anything in this post as such. I was mostly making a bit of a joke earlier, and now I'm simply noting some observations of what Vodafone will likely need to do if they want to retain customers.
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They still do:
Hah! Such a shame that Vodafone is still advertising cable as "UFB". At this rate, Vodafone will continue the trend of being about one order of magnitude slower than "real" UFB.
quickymart: I doubt that would happen, sadly.Naw, I don't think so either, haha. My comment was pretty much entirely tongue-in-cheek. It's such a shame that Vodafone's continued investment still seems to keep it comfortably behind fibre, though. This isn't a surprise, but it's still disappointing.
That said, I am quite happy with the connection's performance since the node upgrades. I'm thankful that I have access to a connection that's finally now performing this well when we would otherwise be stuck with VDSL at best. Things have been responsive and latency has been low. Still looking forward to more bandwidth down the road, though, since it is a shared connection.Also, if anything, hopefully UFB's pricing will encourage Vodafone to drop their monthly rates. We're back to paying something like $120 per month, while customers that can get fibre are able to get 7.5x as much download speed and 50x as much upload speed for half the price. If Vodafone wants to compete with areas that are getting fibre, they're not going to be able to do so at existing prices.
I'm not upset or anything, so please don't interpret anything in this post as such. I was mostly making a bit of a joke earlier, and now I'm simply noting some observations of what Vodafone will likely need to do if they want to retain customers.
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I'm a geek, a gamer, a dad, a Quic user, and an IT Professional. I have a full rack home lab, size 15 feet, an epic beard and Asperger's. I'm a bit of a Cypherpunk, who believes information wants to be free and the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. If you use my Quic signup you can also use the code R570394EKGIZ8 for free setup.
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Lias:
kharris:
That's because it is.
Only compared to dialup...
Back to basics:
Dial-up has a transfer rate of 56 Kilobits of data per second under ideal conditions.
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