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  #1403975 11-Oct-2015 20:25
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Spark Wellington server


Vodafone Wellington server

Streaming is running fine so far tonight




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  #1403978 11-Oct-2015 20:38
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Scotty1986:
Sideface:
Scotty1986: ....  Will Vodafone bother doing any further upgrades with fibre so close? ...


Close for some, but not for others.
We don't get fibre until late 2019 at the earliest.

Theoretically, if enough people jump ship, congestion will improve for the stragglers.  wink


That is not a very long time when it comes to building infrastructure though. How old is the cable tech already? Will they really want to spend much more if they know everybody will leave within 4 years? Unless they really do think it can compete with fibre in the long run and be as reliable, which I'm all for, competition is a good thing.

I think cable internet was first offered around 1998/1999. I know it was certainly available when I was working at Paradise (in 1999).

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  #1404008 11-Oct-2015 21:07
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Mine is still showing significant improvement (Karori 100/10 plan):




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  #1404010 11-Oct-2015 21:11
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Performance remains strong in Island Bay. YouTube still has the occasional odd hiccup, but overall I don't have any significant complaints. :) Streaming a 4K60 video is once again completely viable!



I may contact Vodafone to see if we can have some money credited to our account for the last several months of issues. While I'm thrilled for the connection's performance as of late, I'm still disappointed with how many problems it caused over the last year.

And again, a shout-out to the reps from Vodafone for their communication with us!

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  #1404011 11-Oct-2015 21:14
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 And again, a shout-out to the reps from Vodafone for their communication with us!


Absolutely agree - the participation of Vodafone staff on this thread and contact by PM has been really great and made a real difference.

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  #1404030 11-Oct-2015 22:03
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lchiu7:
Skillie: Not sure if this is a problem - getting a higher ping on 130/10 in Kapiti after the upgrade too...



I've never seen higher than about 95Mb/s on my 130/10 connection recently so I would be happy with this.   I am pretty sure when I first switched back to cable I saw > 100Mbs so it's not my TP Link router that is the bottleneck. And all my PC's are on GBE.


What type of cable modem do you have?
Your speed is typical of a 100Mb/s Ethernet interface.  If you have a Cisco cable modem and the link light is amber, then your router is connecting at 100Mb/s.  If the link light is green, then it has a 1000Mb/s Ethernet connection.
Have you tried taking your TP-Llink out of the picture and doing a direct connection between the cable modem and your PC/laptop to see what you get?
Another thing to check with your TP-Link, if it capable of setting the Ethernet link speed, make sure it it set to Autonegotiate

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  #1404059 11-Oct-2015 23:02
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wigster:
lchiu7:
Skillie: Not sure if this is a problem - getting a higher ping on 130/10 in Kapiti after the upgrade too...



I've never seen higher than about 95Mb/s on my 130/10 connection recently so I would be happy with this.   I am pretty sure when I first switched back to cable I saw > 100Mbs so it's not my TP Link router that is the bottleneck. And all my PC's are on GBE.


What type of cable modem do you have?
Your speed is typical of a 100Mb/s Ethernet interface.  If you have a Cisco cable modem and the link light is amber, then your router is connecting at 100Mb/s.  If the link light is green, then it has a 1000Mb/s Ethernet connection.
Have you tried taking your TP-Llink out of the picture and doing a direct connection between the cable modem and your PC/laptop to see what you get?
Another thing to check with your TP-Link, if it capable of setting the Ethernet link speed, make sure it it set to Autonegotiate


I can confirm similar behaviour. My router doesn't have gigabit Ethernet, and my fastest download speed on 100/10 connection is 94 megabits.

 
 
 

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  #1404260 12-Oct-2015 12:17
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I just experienced stalling when resolving google sites and CDNs again:

At 12:07 on 12/10/15:
Visiting geekzone.co.nz - stall on cse.google.co.nz from 12:07 until 12:10.
Visiting stuff.co.nz - stall on cse.google.com from 12:07 to 12:09, then (perhaps concurrently) www.google-analytics until 12:10.
Visiting cracked.com - stall on cdn.resignationmedia.com from 12:07 to 12:08, then (perhaps concurrently) www.google-analytics until 12:09.
Visiting thechive.com - stall on www.google-analytics from 12:07 to 12.09.

When I tried coming to this forum cse.google.co.nz stalled so I opened new browser windows for each of the above sites to confirm if it was a systemic issue.  I probably should have done a traceroute but didn't think about it.  Can Vodafone personnel confirm if these issues are related to the congestion issues at all, as several others in this forum are experiencing it as well?


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  #1404288 12-Oct-2015 13:12
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zaphodalive: I just experienced stalling when resolving google sites and CDNs again:

At 12:07 on 12/10/15:
Visiting geekzone.co.nz - stall on cse.google.co.nz from 12:07 until 12:10.
Visiting stuff.co.nz - stall on cse.google.com from 12:07 to 12:09, then (perhaps concurrently) www.google-analytics until 12:10.
Visiting cracked.com - stall on cdn.resignationmedia.com from 12:07 to 12:08, then (perhaps concurrently) www.google-analytics until 12:09.
Visiting thechive.com - stall on www.google-analytics from 12:07 to 12.09.

When I tried coming to this forum cse.google.co.nz stalled so I opened new browser windows for each of the above sites to confirm if it was a systemic issue.  I probably should have done a traceroute but didn't think about it.  Can Vodafone personnel confirm if these issues are related to the congestion issues at all, as several others in this forum are experiencing it as well?



@zaphodalive Can you please DM me your HFC account number so we can do some checks

Thanks

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  #1404313 12-Oct-2015 13:27
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wigster:
lchiu7:
Skillie: Not sure if this is a problem - getting a higher ping on 130/10 in Kapiti after the upgrade too...



I've never seen higher than about 95Mb/s on my 130/10 connection recently so I would be happy with this.   I am pretty sure when I first switched back to cable I saw > 100Mbs so it's not my TP Link router that is the bottleneck. And all my PC's are on GBE.


What type of cable modem do you have?
Your speed is typical of a 100Mb/s Ethernet interface.  If you have a Cisco cable modem and the link light is amber, then your router is connecting at 100Mb/s.  If the link light is green, then it has a 1000Mb/s Ethernet connection.
Have you tried taking your TP-Llink out of the picture and doing a direct connection between the cable modem and your PC/laptop to see what you get?
Another thing to check with your TP-Link, if it capable of setting the Ethernet link speed, make sure it it set to Autonegotiate


That's weird because my link light is amber but my TP Link router TL-WR2543ND is supposed to be Gigabit and auto negotiate.

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  #1404451 12-Oct-2015 15:21
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zaphodalive: I just experienced stalling when resolving google sites and CDNs again:

At 12:07 on 12/10/15:
Visiting geekzone.co.nz - stall on cse.google.co.nz from 12:07 until 12:10.
Visiting stuff.co.nz - stall on cse.google.com from 12:07 to 12:09, then (perhaps concurrently) www.google-analytics until 12:10.
Visiting cracked.com - stall on cdn.resignationmedia.com from 12:07 to 12:08, then (perhaps concurrently) www.google-analytics until 12:09.
Visiting thechive.com - stall on www.google-analytics from 12:07 to 12.09.

When I tried coming to this forum cse.google.co.nz stalled so I opened new browser windows for each of the above sites to confirm if it was a systemic issue.  I probably should have done a traceroute but didn't think about it.  Can Vodafone personnel confirm if these issues are related to the congestion issues at all, as several others in this forum are experiencing it as well?



I have these issues as will I think. Often Geekzone wont completely load, it just, stalls, maybe minutes later it will finish. Same with speedtest, often the Speedo just wont load, but everything else is there. Then minutes later it shows up. Also on stuff. I'm in Woodridge Wellington if it matters.

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  #1404536 12-Oct-2015 17:34
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Scotty1986:
zaphodalive: I just experienced stalling when resolving google sites and CDNs again:

At 12:07 on 12/10/15:
Visiting geekzone.co.nz - stall on cse.google.co.nz from 12:07 until 12:10.
Visiting stuff.co.nz - stall on cse.google.com from 12:07 to 12:09, then (perhaps concurrently) www.google-analytics until 12:10.
Visiting cracked.com - stall on cdn.resignationmedia.com from 12:07 to 12:08, then (perhaps concurrently) www.google-analytics until 12:09.
Visiting thechive.com - stall on www.google-analytics from 12:07 to 12.09.

When I tried coming to this forum cse.google.co.nz stalled so I opened new browser windows for each of the above sites to confirm if it was a systemic issue.  I probably should have done a traceroute but didn't think about it.  Can Vodafone personnel confirm if these issues are related to the congestion issues at all, as several others in this forum are experiencing it as well?



I have these issues as will I think. Often Geekzone wont completely load, it just, stalls, maybe minutes later it will finish. Same with speedtest, often the Speedo just wont load, but everything else is there. Then minutes later it shows up. Also on stuff. I'm in Woodridge Wellington if it matters.


Content specific issues are highly likely separate. Can you open a different thread for that, i will look into it.

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  #1404538 12-Oct-2015 17:36
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Yay a direct answer, have asked so many times if it's congestion or separate thread worthy

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  #1404547 12-Oct-2015 18:03
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Please create a new thread. This page (at 5:55pm) took about five minutes to load, waiting on cse.google.co.nz :(




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  #1404576 12-Oct-2015 18:39
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Cool, I'll dig out my old Wireshark logs from July when I first raised this and got told it was most likely congestion and then it generally got buried under so many other posts about cable problems. Eventually I got told you connection is fine and to produce fresh logs or request a tech to site if I wanted to take it further, but its clearly an endemimc issue. Seriously why does cable not just work like every adsl/vdsl connection I've ever had it seems to crop up with so many performance issues.

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