Krapi Cable Congestion?

Forums › One New Zealand (including Vodafone, WxC, Farmside) › Krapi Cable Congestion?

1 | ... | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | ... | 234

709 posts

Ultimate Geek

Trusted

#1398243 1-Oct-2015 19:27

Island Bay represent!

There are dozens of us!

stocksp

708 posts

Ultimate Geek

ID Verified

Lifetime subscriber

#1398248 1-Oct-2015 19:31

Tapu Te Ranga - Island Bay!

Nish

155 posts

Master Geek

#1398270 1-Oct-2015 20:13

day 2 after upgrades and its back to how it was pre node cutover.

ramboky

491 posts

Ultimate Geek

#1398271 1-Oct-2015 20:25

Ok, I count six Island Bay residents here... my current speed test came back at almost 15Mbps... which is about one sixth of 100Mbps....

Which means you bastards are stealing my internet!

stocksp

708 posts

Ultimate Geek

ID Verified

Lifetime subscriber

#1398272 1-Oct-2015 20:39

BarTender

3606 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#1398311 1-Oct-2015 22:03

ramboky: Ok, I count six Island Bay residents here... my current speed test came back at almost 15Mbps... which is about one sixth of 100Mbps....

Which means you bastards are stealing my internet!

Go door to door tonight and let us know how you get on. ;)

Kodiack

709 posts

Ultimate Geek

Trusted

#1398315 1-Oct-2015 22:14

Aaaaaaaaaand it's gone!

YouTube is lucky to buffer at a whopping 1 Mbps right now.

Please, Vodafone. :(

I hope that the Island Bay thing can be sorted out soon enough. We seem to have it the worst here, judging simply by the sheer percentage of complaints that come from people living in this small suburb. For how small of a section of Vodafone's subscriber base we likely account for, we appear to be experiencing some of the most dramatic issues. That, or we're somehow all just loud and outspoken. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just really want to see this all sorted out. I've held strong to the 130 Mbps plan in hopes that it would all get sorted out and we'd live happily ever after and so on and so forth. We had countless opportunities to jump ship and get a cheaper ADSL2+ plan that would perform more consistently at peak hours. Having our Internet performance neutered when we most desperately need it has really taken a toll on us. I'm frustrated. My flatmates are frustrated. And my friends get disappointed too when I have to decline playing a game with them for the night simply because latency is so poor at that given time.

I'm actually feeling physically exhausted at this point. Whenever I think we've finally reached the end of the tunnel, it turns out that the end of the tunnel is just more tunnel. The proverbial light is just a bunch of false promises, and I'm having a very hard time believing it anymore.

I just can't help but think of all of the time, money, and hassle I would have saved if I would have just switched until this was sorted out. If we could have just dealt with lower off-peak speeds from a different connection, we'd up a few hundred dollars; we would have had more pleasurable Internet experiences when we most desired it; and we could have spent time playing with friends instead of ranting and whining on forums.

I really don't know what more to say or do. It feels like I've been led along by a carrot on a stick, and I'm only now wising up to it.

I do appreciate the communication we've had from John, Dylan, and Janice. But it just isn't enough. It seems like we're in a perpetual state of "one step forward; two steps back". When we finally see an improvement, it's almost always short-lived, and without fail, we seem to always wind up with even more problems to deal with.

I had issues with ISPs in the United States, but never to this extent - and when I did have problems, they were proactive in issuing refunds and resolving the problem in a timely manner. Heck, I got a large refund when my 100 Mbps connection started dropping to 70 Mbps at certain hours. And that was from Charter, one of our notorious big-name ISPs that even to this day still winds up in the news for horrifying reasons. Even when I footed calls for Comcast, I never saw an issue go for this long without resolution.

That's enough rambling for now, though, I suppose. I've been sitting here, finding more things to rant about in this post, and I suppose I've let off enough steam. Plus, I've wasted enough time writing this that it's now nearing the end of peak hour. My Internet connection should hopefully be semi-adequate again in a few minutes. :\

Equinox IT

Cloud spending continues to surge globally, but most organisations haven’t made the changes necessary to maximise the value and cost-efficiency benefits of their cloud investments. Download the whitepaper From Overspend to Advantage now.

JulianB

58 posts

Master Geek

#1398316 1-Oct-2015 22:14

10:10pm here and I'm trying to take as much of Island Bay's bandwidth as I can possibly hog. Amble for your lives:

-j

Kodiack

709 posts

Ultimate Geek

Trusted

#1398322 1-Oct-2015 22:24

I'm also downloading a repository on GitHub, to try some things out. I just needed the ZIP, so it's in Chrome. What wonderful download speeds...

Over 15 years ago, I was on a connection that downloaded at twice that rate. And even that felt bloody slow for downloads that were just a few megabytes in size.

SteveC

448 posts

Ultimate Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#1398325 1-Oct-2015 22:31

It's that bloody cycle-way! As soon as they start building it, society collapses, as predicted by those in the know (supported by their silent majority).

Kodiack

709 posts

Ultimate Geek

Trusted

#1398337 1-Oct-2015 22:51

YouTube is currently fully dead in the water. I cannot even buffer at 144p. It's just...dead.

EDIT: As quickly as it died, it's now back. It even buffered ahead at 20 Mbps! *gasp*