Ask for an NGA on Application request from your service provider. It will cost quite a bit though.

gzcwnk:

 

Or it maybe the fibre will not be activated for years.   We have fibre running down the street outside our club and want the speed to do video streaming for an international event in 2019 we are told no.

 

 

 

 

 

Well fibre was laid in the streets all around me about 6 months ago but my street was omitted because it's a cul-de-sac. So I presume the backhaul was completed then. Adding my street now should only require patching into the existing connections. A check of the Chorus site says fibre available which isn't that far away now.

We asked as its in the street and were told its a long way a way.  I really have a 6month window to get OBS and nginx going to test and have 100% going by xmas for a full test in Jan and being a not for profit simply cant afford much. I'm going to get a small config running though as recording various concurrent events will help with training/coaching and I'll just save the output to disk. Maybe see if the ADSL can handle a small stream or maybe cloud base Nginx to do the rtmp there to keep the bandwidth down but the cost of that...ikky.  If not we'll upload the day's competition overnight to youtube I guess. 

Is VDSL available?

gzcwnk:

 

We asked as its in the street and were told its a long way a way.  I really have a 6month window to get OBS and nginx going to test and have 100% going by xmas for a full test in Jan and being a not for profit simply cant afford much. I'm going to get a small config running though as recording various concurrent events will help with training/coaching and I'll just save the output to disk. Maybe see if the ADSL can handle a small stream or maybe cloud base Nginx to do the rtmp there to keep the bandwidth down but the cost of that...ikky.  If not we'll upload the day's competition overnight to youtube I guess. 

 

Bigpipe just answered by query and said fibre available June 17 and my ASUS router will be fine. Fibre, here I come!  The only issue for me is timing the cancelling of cable and the installation of fibre. I guess I will have to keep both going until the fibre is confirmed working and have to pay double for about a week.

I think I will start with 200/20 and see how that goes (should be 2x better than my 100/10 I have now with reduced latency) and cheaper.

That's a good idea - keep both going so you have a crossover while it's being installed. Rather pay a little extra for two services than have to scramble for a connection while you're waiting for fibre to be installed.

lchiu7:

 

 

 

Bigpipe just answered by query and said fibre available June 17 and my ASUS router will be fine. Fibre, here I come!  The only issue for me is timing the cancelling of cable and the installation of fibre. I guess I will have to keep both going until the fibre is confirmed working and have to pay double for about a week.

 

I think I will start with 200/20 and see how that goes (should be 2x better than my 100/10 I have now with reduced latency) and cheaper.

 

 

My latency is about 150ms to the USA which isnt bad. I dont know that the extra speed will matter, latency, yes.

The thing to do is get some speed tests etc done now and after.   I started on Cable a long time ago (2000 ish) and initially there were 2 (3?) plans, faster and less volume (before paying extra) and slower but more "free" volume.   I found I kept slowing down to get the volume but with no performance loss.  Currently on my 100/10 I get about 33~36 actual. The thing that annoys me is with no competition I am paying $110 when I could be paying more like $90 a month. I could do other things with that $240 a year, and then there is their customer service and their treat the customer like a chump, ie exploit and lock in the customer mentality, I cant wait to have some options.

PS What I will be able to do is do offsite backups and a few other things that are bandwidth hungry locally.

lchiu7:

 

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I think I will start with 200/20 and see how that goes (should be 2x better than my 100/10 I have now with reduced latency) and cheaper.

 

 

Be careful what you wish for. 

I changed from cable 100/10 to "FibreX" cable 200/20 six months ago, and have regretted it.

"FibreX" IS cheaper, but it is NOT "2x better" - you get "faster" speed tests, BUT "FibreX" is actually slightly slower than 100/10 in real-world use - esp with overseas connections.

Latency is exactly the same on both.

I have hourly, 24/7, TrueNet performance/speed tests going back 3 years to back this up.

I am seriously considering going back to cable 100/10, if this is still possible.

Current bandwidth on FibreX:

Needless to say, it's not quite what I purchased...

Sideface:

 

lchiu7:

 

<SNIP>

 

I think I will start with 200/20 and see how that goes (should be 2x better than my 100/10 I have now with reduced latency) and cheaper.

 

 

 

Be careful what you wish for. 

 

I changed from cable 100/10 to "FibreX" cable 200/20 six months ago, and have regretted it.

 

"FibreX" IS cheaper, but it is NOT "2x better" - you get "faster" speed tests, BUT "FibreX" is actually slightly slower than 100/10 in real-world use - esp with overseas connections.

 

Latency is exactly the same on both.

 

I have hourly, 24/7, TrueNet performance/speed tests going back 3 years to back this up.

 

I am seriously considering going back to cable 100/10, if this is still possible.

 

I plan to go from 100/10 cable to 200/20 fibre.  I think there should be an improvement. I am not planning to upgrade to Fibrex at all.

I switched from VF Cable 200/20 to "Fibre"X Cable 1000/100 and regrettably signed up for 24 months. Wish I had stuck with the old connection until fibre was available.

anyway, I digress from ops question,

hardware is Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite, two 24 port gigabit managed switches, 3x Ubiquiti AP-LR (not AC)

runs like a top, just the cable modem keeps dropping, uptime is not pretty.

https://uptime.statuscake.com/?TestID=j4hSHk7iOB or https://smokeping.murfy.nz/smokeping.fcgi?target=FibreX.adimw tells all