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  #1375025 27-Aug-2015 09:24
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Foo: Looks like Karori (plus other areas) had cutovers done today



G'day Foo, it's been too long. :)

I'm getting daily emails from the project team and am updating the info on Vodafone Community for our operations team. This is preparation work still, more happening in Wellington today. Final cutovers coming soon.

Dylan



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  #1375358 27-Aug-2015 18:25
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Pretty stoked that for the first time since I signed up a few months back I can actually load websites normally, though my speedtests were always great I couldn't access a bunch of sites without forcibly refreshing them, generally getting better performance via 2degrees mobile data. As of Monday I can now load stuff.co.nz, geekzone.co.nz and twitch.tv and speedtest.net without hitting refresh 20 or so times. This was never a time of day or speed issue though, but apparently current work appears to have helped. 

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  #1375366 27-Aug-2015 18:54
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While speeds are around 50 MBps - not even close to 130 Mpbs achieved during the day time - it's not as low as four digits as previous day, weeks and months.

While not particularly fast browsing, it doesn't seem to timeout waiting for the likes of Google and other CDNs. Facebook still slow loading pages.




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  #1375368 27-Aug-2015 19:04
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freitasm: Facebook still slow loading pages.


I've had this problem too, as has pretty much everyone else I know on Vodafone cable. It was actually one of the first things that the tenant that took up my old flat noticed about the connection!

I'm surprised that there's not more discussion about that problem in particular. But I suppose that the congestion is the most pressing issue at the moment.

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  #1375378 27-Aug-2015 19:50
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First time in over a week that I have managed to hit over the 1Mbps mark around this time.
Last Result:
Download Speed: 1116 kbps (139.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 4302 kbps (537.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
8/27/2015, 7:49:09 PM

Gaming is still more or less impossible unfortunately.

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  #1375380 27-Aug-2015 19:58
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Not long now next week is another big week of swapping out of more old hardware for new, No need to start threads why is Cable interent offline :P

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  #1375384 27-Aug-2015 20:24
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Might have spoken too early. Google is back to the list of sites that slow down... Trying to manage Google DFP for example and it's not loading anything I need there.




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  #1375388 27-Aug-2015 20:31
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Spoke to soon as well! 

 

Last Result:
Download Speed: 351 kbps (43.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3498 kbps (437.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
8/27/2015, 8:30:41 PM

 

 


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  #1375422 27-Aug-2015 21:29
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Looking good in Island Bay ...
My second good day:
Local speeds 100/10 (just like 2014 smile)

File download (multiple large files) from a proxy server in Iceland at 9pm tonight:

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#1375424 27-Aug-2015 21:35
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Sideface: Looking good in Island Bay ...
My second good day:
Local speeds 100/10 (just like 2014 smile)

File download (multiple large files) from a proxy server in Iceland at 9pm tonight:

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Right now you have people wanting to put pins in a doll of you!

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Sideface: Looking good in Island Bay ...
My second good day:
Local speeds 100/10 (just like 2014 smile)

File download (multiple large files) from a proxy server in Iceland at 9pm tonight:

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Also in Island Bay, but I'm getting this:


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  #1375449 27-Aug-2015 23:28
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ramboky: Also in Island Bay, but I'm getting this:



I have PMd you smile




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  #1375895 28-Aug-2015 19:39
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Def improvements in speeds tonight. Cannot really remember when the last time was when I saw speeds above 1Mbps at this time of the evening.
Last Result:
Download Speed: 17951 kbps (2243.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 9991 kbps (1248.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
8/28/2015, 7:38:55 PM

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  #1375950 29-Aug-2015 01:05
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This Facebook thing really does need to get sorted out after the congestion's resolved. It's 1 AM, and loading a Facebook page took so long that I brought up a stopwatch. In total, it took more than 1 minute, 20 seconds to load. It's always fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net that it gets stuck loading on, so it's likely related to something with how it's accessing the CDN.

It's leagues faster to connect on mobile, even though I only get standard 3G in this part of Island Bay.

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  #1375951 29-Aug-2015 01:15
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I've been viewing Chrome's Net Internals to gauge what takes the longest. 6-edge-chat.facebook.com takes a very long time to connect and download. Its DNS lookup resolved to 31.13.95.8, which is in Hong Kong.

Why is it only Facebook that's being resolved to Hong Kong? Every other site with a CDN is properly resolving to New Zealand or Australia.

Is this only happening on Vodafone's cable network as well? Or is it affecting other Vodafone services?

EDIT: I changed my DNS servers to these Vodafone ones and things seem to be resolving better. I'll keep an eye on things.

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