[TelstraClear] What's going on with TelstraClear cable tonight [2010-04-26]?

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#60479 26-Apr-2010 19:46

Usually an iTunes movie can be downloaded in about 20 - 30 minutes, but tonight it says it will be ten hours...

What's going on with TelstraClear cable?

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#323217 26-Apr-2010 20:09

I have been having crappy speeds with Telstraclear for a couple of weeks now, it's not just YouTube vid's anymore. Speedtest result just now, 1.5Mbps down, this is actually relatively good compared to what I have been getting lately, average is around 0.5Mbps most evenings. Should be 10x that at least.

Edit: sorry, should say I'm in Crofton Downs, Wgtn, though TCL's mailing system says my street is in Wilton.

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#323218 26-Apr-2010 20:11

I have found my YouTube's been working fine today for non-HD (720p/1080p) video clips... Haven't found an HD-ready/Full-HD YouTube clip to try yet.. I don't much hope for a miracle from TelstraClear so soon though... They're known for slow (or no) respond.

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#323224 26-Apr-2010 20:20

resonable speeds out of christchurch tonight, no problems on Youtube either. Speed test is showing 8.5Mbit/s on a 10Mbit plan.

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#323233 26-Apr-2010 20:31

It's a 1.2GB iTunes movie, and since my post it only downloaded 180MB. That's 180MB in 50 minutes...

Something is very wrong with TelstraClear in Wellington today.

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#323235 26-Apr-2010 20:32

freitasm: Usually an iTunes movie can be downloaded in about 20 - 30 minutes, but tonight it says it will be ten hours...

What's going on with TelstraClear cable?

I concur, mine is running poor as well (iTunes downloads)

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#323241 26-Apr-2010 20:44

Wow... just tested with Speedtest.net, got great results (to AKL and CHC servers obviously)...

But YouTube on TelstraClear drops like dead flies, on 360p, 480p and 720p... Tested with this video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p27cLysfqYc

with 'Video Info' enabled.

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#323255 26-Apr-2010 21:13

No speed issues here, except of course the ever-present YouTube one. Although it is worse than ever (didn't realise that was possible). Averaging <100kbps (that's bits not bytes). I'm getting as low as 4kbps at some points. Surely the cache will solve this, right!?!?! (Tui ad comes to mind) Get your crap together, TelstraClear.

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#323257 26-Apr-2010 21:17

When I was on You Tube last night the performance was atrocious, but I can't really comment on tonight as I've only been doing basic browsing and emails.

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#323262 26-Apr-2010 21:40

You're right, something strange is going on tonight. Here's my Speedtest result:

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#323270 26-Apr-2010 22:03

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#323271 26-Apr-2010 22:03

amanzi: You're right, something strange is going on tonight. Here's my Speedtest result:

And what's wrong with that?

I am getting about 9Mbps on a 10Mbps plan. That's ok. But speedtests have nothing much to do with reality these days of CDNs and caches.

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#323278 26-Apr-2010 22:11

amanzi: You're right, something strange is going on tonight. Here's my Speedtest result:

gasp.

are you one of those warp speed enabled customers? i thought it's not possible. i thought you dont exist!

so are the hobbits also real, havent seen any in my 3+ years in nz.

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#323281 26-Apr-2010 22:14

No - I'm not on Warpspeed, that's the strange thing. I tested again and it was back down to normal.

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#323314 27-Apr-2010 00:15

International speeds are incredibly shoddy for this time, usually it starts picking up.

YouTube is unusable without pausing and coming back 10 minutes later.

Doing an Ubuntu upgrade on my server, I usually get a couple of hundred K/sec, it's crawling at 15-50k/sec.

Something is up since the HomePlan "upgrade".

But here's the SpeedTest, not that it matters :)

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#323319 27-Apr-2010 00:35

Speed for non-YT DL & UL has been fine here today (well yesterday now), at least when I used it (Khandallah 10Mbs cable)