[WXC/VFX] Xnet International Issue

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#115635 10-Mar-2008 01:13

welcome to speedtests and speed issues

Detruire

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#115767 10-Mar-2008 15:48

It happens with real-world download speeds, too.

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Awe

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#115849 10-Mar-2008 21:48

Wow xnet are we gonna have this one month every 3 months or what awesome service

to sydney horrible every night this one at 9:30 ish

https://www.speedtest.net/result/244411487.png

hpj2007

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#115850 10-Mar-2008 21:52

This issue is still in effect. Real world download speeds from planetmirror.com.au :

Peak time: 35KB/s
Off peak: 700KB/s

Thats a *huge* difference.

Kyro

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Master Geek

#116230 12-Mar-2008 22:29

This issue is no where near fixed, speeds are so slow that loading anything hosted outside of NewZealand takes well over a minute.
Whats bad is that Xnet's help desk dont seam to respond to anything to do with speed issue now that they have supposedly got more international bandwidth.
Which they are ether not allocating evenly to all customers or just dont have in the first place (or no where near enough).

When I first signed up for xnet's fusion (Janurary) speeds were amazing. Now they are actually worse than what I had with xtra's GoLarge plan (everyone knows how bad that is).

May as well move back to dialup, because atleast thats a stable connection speed.

shermanp

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#116239 13-Mar-2008 00:00

The problem doesn't seem to be lack of international bandwidth so much as the fact that for some reason single international connections are maxing out at about 30KB/s.
If I download files using a d/l manager, I can get in excess of 900KB/s sometimes, yet using the browsers d/l function I'm lucky to get 50KB/s (off peak).
The biggest problem I'm having at night is video streaming, as there doesn't seem to be enough bandwitdh on a single connection at these times to stream without lots of pausing to buffer :(

MikeGayner

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#116249 13-Mar-2008 06:44

Yeah this is getting tiresome. Why would they claim to have fixed this issue when it's clearly not fixed?

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Bletch

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Geek

#116264 13-Mar-2008 08:26

Interesting - this issue has been fixed for me for a few weeks now. Perhaps they throttled every customer individually, and whatever script they used to un-throttle didn't work properly?

Yahn

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#116277 13-Mar-2008 09:46

I am also getting tired of not being able to watch youtube properly. As well as dodgy INt. speeds, a couple of times yesterday i was getting speedtests of less than 1mb , to Xnets own server in Auckland.. I usually get around 5mb to that server. . It's getting worse it seems.

ajobbins

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#116285 13-Mar-2008 10:34

I have noticed my sync speed is steadily deceasing. When ADSL2+ first went live on my exchange I was syncing at around 19-20mbits (I am only a few hundrew metres from the exchange). Now it wont get anything above 14mbits

MikeGayner

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#116317 13-Mar-2008 12:56

adamj: I have noticed my sync speed is steadily deceasing. When ADSL2+ first went live on my exchange I was syncing at around 19-20mbits (I am only a few hundrew metres from the exchange). Now it wont get anything above 14mbits

This isn't an Xnet issue - also, I dont think 14mb is much to complain about.

ajobbins

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#116322 13-Mar-2008 13:04

MikeGayner:
adamj: I have noticed my sync speed is steadily deceasing. When ADSL2+ first went live on my exchange I was syncing at around 19-20mbits (I am only a few hundrew metres from the exchange). Now it wont get anything above 14mbits

This isn't an Xnet issue - also, I dont think 14mb is much to complain about.

Yeah I know it isn't an xnet issue. But considering the line is obviously capable of 10-20mbits I think 14mbits is pretty poor. If the trend continues I will be back down to or below ADSL speeds in weeks.

Stu

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#116591 14-Mar-2008 10:52

At the moment I'd be happy enough with consistent ADSL speeds. ADSL2+? Tis okay for some..

hpj2007

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#116604 14-Mar-2008 13:02

I think the issue is only for people on 118.90.x.x IP range. People on the old range and static IPs are not affected.

wlgspotter

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#116611 14-Mar-2008 13:39

hpj2007: I think the issue is only for people on 118.90.x.x IP range. People on the old range and static IPs are not affected.

OK, so does that mean if you're on the 118.90.x.x range you're stuck with it? Any chance of getting re-assigned to the 58.28 range if they are not affected? I've been on the range since I signed up with Xnet at my current place in Dec 07, but I've only noticed the speed drops this week - if you check back this thread I posed earlier my speed tests last week that I was achieving close to 6mpbs down to LA.

Has been about 1-2mpbs tops to LA last couple of days, down to < 1 mbps last night.

FYI, my ADSL model is synching up at close to full speed - 7616kbps down and 700+ kbps up. I'm in Churton Park, Wellington, which is using roadside cabinets and they are currently on the Aclatel 7300 ASAMs - not ADSL2+ (7302 ISAms) capable yet. But in general I'm happy with my sync up rate and local traffic to Xnet - just would be nice if the international bandwidth issues could be resolved.

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