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#1308906 20-May-2015 22:09

wwesocks: I live in Paraparaumu and have Spark VDSL and get speeds of about 30Mbps down and 10Mbs up.
What is the Vodafone cable like here in Kapiti? I see that Vodafone offers the Unlimited cable 100Mbps plan for the same price as what I am paying now.
Does anyone know if my speed will improve? If it goes under 20Mbps during peak time that would be horrible.

Thank you,
Andrew

wwesocks, I'd definitely wait until Vodafone's fully fixed up the congestion before switching. Those are pretty decent speeds for a VDSL line. While the connection is superb when it's performing as advertised, I'm consistently dropping to sub-20 Mbps around peak hours, as are many others. My speed test as of a couple minutes ago pegged me at 19 Mbps. If you were to use the connection heavily around 9 PM, there's a high chance that you'd be worse off with Vodafone cable than you are now.

When Vodafone has upgraded their capacity and shown that they can maintain steady, advertised speeds at all times, then I'll fully recommend them. Until that day, it's a hard sell to anyone but those on the worst of ADSL connections.

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#1308929 20-May-2015 22:22

wwesocks: I live in Paraparaumu and have Spark VDSL and get speeds of about 30Mbps down and 10Mbs up.
What is the Vodafone cable like here in Kapiti? I see that Vodafone offers the Unlimited cable 100Mbps plan for the same price as what I am paying now.
Does anyone know if my speed will improve? If it goes under 20Mbps during peak time that would be horrible.

Thank you,
Andrew

Lots of work going on upgrading the backend hardware as fast as possible now,

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#1309027 21-May-2015 07:45

That's great to know thanks

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#1309485 21-May-2015 19:21

I'd love to know more about this. Excuse the extreme jpeg on this but:

Now, it was pretty rubbish at the peek performance at 6:35pm tonight (20Mb/s) but the drop off over 3-4 minutes is very major (grid 5 minutes).
How many people would have to come online at 6:35pm on my node to do this? I verified the post slowdown speeds by testing using wellington.speedtest.vodafone.co.nz.

I know this is being worked on so it's not intended as a complaint, I'd just like to know whether a singe user can snaffle 16Mb/s of the 20 I started with, or if everyone on my node gets an equal share (eg ~4.7Mb/s).

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#1310933 24-May-2015 19:59

This is what I am getting right now. I am on the 130 down/ 10 up plan.

Last Result:
Download Speed: 770 kbps (96.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3203 kbps (400.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
5/24/2015, 7:50:24 PM

Youtube is struggling to stream at standard def tonight.

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#1310948 24-May-2015 20:55

Yep Youtube is really slow again. Considering how much it's cached thats surprising, but I obviously have no knowledge of where this slow down is happening.
Hope it's fixed soon :). In Karori, Wellington.

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#1311361 25-May-2015 15:02

Nish: This is what I am getting right now. I am on the 130 down/ 10 up plan.

Last Result:
Download Speed: 770 kbps (96.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3203 kbps (400.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
5/24/2015, 7:50:24 PM

Youtube is struggling to stream at standard def tonight.

Wow. . How have you managed to not lose your s__t over this? I'm getting white hot rage at 4Mb/s when I'm paying for 130.

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#1311396 25-May-2015 16:08

gbwelly:
Nish: This is what I am getting right now. I am on the 130 down/ 10 up plan.

Last Result:
Download Speed: 770 kbps (96.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3203 kbps (400.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
5/24/2015, 7:50:24 PM

Youtube is struggling to stream at standard def tonight.

Wow. . How have you managed to not lose your s__t over this? I'm getting white hot rage at 4Mb/s when I'm paying for 130.

What good will it do me?

I got an update on my call I made last week wednesday...and I quote " Hi Nishant, I got some results from faulting team like its known issue but at this stage there is no ETR for this. Thanks."

Unfortunately, my only other option will be to go back to a VDSL connection with another ISP as I cannot get fibre down where I am and I really don't want to as I moved from a Spark vdsl connection to Voda cable. Will suffer through it for a few more weeks and see if things change.

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#1311428 25-May-2015 16:53

Nish:
gbwelly:
Nish: This is what I am getting right now. I am on the 130 down/ 10 up plan.

Last Result:
Download Speed: 770 kbps (96.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3203 kbps (400.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
5/24/2015, 7:50:24 PM

Youtube is struggling to stream at standard def tonight.

Wow. . How have you managed to not lose your s__t over this? I'm getting white hot rage at 4Mb/s when I'm paying for 130.

What good will it do me?

I got an update on my call I made last week wednesday...and I quote " Hi Nishant, I got some results from faulting team like its known issue but at this stage there is no ETR for this. Thanks."

Unfortunately, my only other option will be to go back to a VDSL connection with another ISP as I cannot get fibre down where I am and I really don't want to as I moved from a Spark vdsl connection to Voda cable. Will suffer through it for a few more weeks and see if things change.

Can you please repsond to my DM

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#1311483 25-May-2015 17:53

Nish: Unfortunately, my only other option will be to go back to a VDSL connection with another ISP as I cannot get fibre down where I am and I really don't want to as I moved from a Spark vdsl connection to Voda cable. Will suffer through it for a few more weeks and see if things change.

Same boat as me, I just don't know whether to make the jump or not. Knowing my luck a week after I change ISPs they'll sort out my node.

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#1311484 25-May-2015 17:54

1 Year ago there was little or no issues with the cable other than the usual minor issues (call center mistakes etc) why has it been degrading so fast?

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#1311504 25-May-2015 18:31

shrub: 1 Year ago there was little or no issues with the cable other than the usual minor issues (call center mistakes etc) why has it been degrading so fast?

When some people see ' unlimited ' they think it's OK to download the internet once a month so now the nodes need upgrading

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#1311544 25-May-2015 19:44

johnr:
shrub: 1 Year ago there was little or no issues with the cable other than the usual minor issues (call center mistakes etc) why has it been degrading so fast?

When some people see ' unlimited ' they think it's OK to download the internet once a month so now the nodes need upgrading

Increased usage is a given when you offer unlimited plans. The other fact is that Vodafone havent met the anticipated utilisation increase. Other ISPs aren't suffering as much. The topology of the cable network probably makes it harder.

Don't hold your hopes that this will be sorted in a few weeks. This has been going on for quite a while.

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#1311555 25-May-2015 19:55

Mattmannz:
johnr:
shrub: 1 Year ago there was little or no issues with the cable other than the usual minor issues (call center mistakes etc) why has it been degrading so fast?

When some people see ' unlimited ' they think it's OK to download the internet once a month so now the nodes need upgrading

Increased usage is a given when you offer unlimited plans. The other fact is that Vodafone havent met the anticipated utilisation increase. Other ISPs aren't suffering as much. The topology of the cable network probably makes it harder.

Don't hold your hopes that this will be sorted in a few weeks. This has been going on for quite a while.

Sorry but I have the planned work / upgrade INFO that is happening now

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#1311567 25-May-2015 20:17

That's good new Johnr. I look forward to normal service resuming in less than 2 weeks!

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