Chorus boosting 100/20 fibre to 300/100 in November/December

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Ultimate Geek

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#2817305 22-Nov-2021 21:56

I'm on Spark in Albany, Auckland and have received the increase. Just started a backup and yes that is a lot quicker. I moved to the new 100/20 plan last month and got rid of the landline so not only a speed increase but a very good saving each month as well. Thank you very much Spark.

Clima

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#2817370 22-Nov-2021 23:03

linw:

Orcon dragging the chain. Here in "coming weeks".

Not so!! I am with Orcon in Howick, Auckland area and was upgraded last night. Getting 325/100.

linw

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#2817405 23-Nov-2021 07:23

Clima:

linw:

Orcon dragging the chain. Here in "coming weeks".

Not so!! I am with Orcon in Howick, Auckland area and was upgraded last night. Getting 325/100.

Fair enough - you Aucklanders deserve some good news!

morrisk

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#2817457 23-Nov-2021 09:29

Upgrade has happened here in Wellington CBD with Spark.

For me the benefit is limited by my cat 5 ethernet cabling. I note that the download is consistently in the high 80's (it used to be consistently in the low 90's) and the upload now is higher that the download in the low 90's (used to be consistently 20).

So upload and download now about the same which I is an improvement.

RunningMan

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#2817466 23-Nov-2021 09:53

morrisk:[snip]

For me the benefit is limited by my cat 5 ethernet cabling.

There's something wrong with your cat 5 cabling if you can't get gigabit through it.

TechnoGuy001

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#2817469 23-Nov-2021 10:02

RunningMan:

morrisk:[snip]

For me the benefit is limited by my cat 5 ethernet cabling.

There's something wrong with your cat 5 cabling if you can't get gigabit through it.

Are you sure? I always thought cat 5 maxed out at 100 Mbps, and you needed at least cat 5e to get Gigabit.
I'm by no means an expert, just my 2c.

cyril7

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#2817471 23-Nov-2021 10:06

Hi, Cat5 (not talking Cat5e) WILL and DOES pass GigE in 99% of cases, especially if its a <70m run where its more likely to be 99.99999%. I suspect in this case it sounds like it might only be a two pair link, so limited to 100Mb/s for a different reason.

Cyril

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linw

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#2817483 23-Nov-2021 10:54

Mmmm, something is happening with my speed. 59/24 instead of the normal 104/25.

Looks like a re-provisioning is on the way? Or maybe the Orcon Aucklanders are hogging their new bandwidth and starving us Wellingtonians?🙂

Mmmm, now back to 104/25. Strange.

allan

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#2817485 23-Nov-2021 11:00

Have also seen updated speeds in Wellington (Karori) on Spark last night. My router, which has a built-in speed test, is reporting 327/106, so very impressed with that 😀

morrisk

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#2817502 23-Nov-2021 11:08

cyril7:

Hi, Cat5 (not talking Cat5e) WILL and DOES pass GigE in 99% of cases, especially if its a <70m run where its more likely to be 99.99999%. I suspect in this case it sounds like it might only be a two pair link, so limited to 100Mb/s for a different reason.

Cyril

Thanks for this - will look further into this. My cabling is in an apartment done about 18 years ago. I had originally had the cat 5 cabling set up so that it was carrying both an ethernet connection and a phone line but have since taken away the phone and re terminated the end. But may have to look at the end where the splitting connector was.

RunningMan

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#2817778 23-Nov-2021 13:56

@morrisk almost certainly this is just running on 2 pairs instead of 4, not a cat 5 issue.

morrisk

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#2817779 23-Nov-2021 14:03

Thanks - issue is looking more complicated as I have Microtek router board 750 that I see now is rated only 10/100. Had this to manage VLAN10 tagging - needed as I have an apple airport time capsule and various airport extremes around the house.

Time to revise my whole setup I think.

RunningMan

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#2817960 23-Nov-2021 17:35

@morrisk best to start a new thread if you want help, as this is getting OT. The Mikrotik will obviously be your issue though, it's now a very old device with only 10/100 ports.

mattwnz

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#2818024 23-Nov-2021 18:24

FineWine:

"For clarity, these changes will be upgrades to the existing plans; you will not need to build new plans or withdraw any of your existing offers to benefit from these upgrades."

So does this mean that my Spark "Unplan Netflix Fibre 100/20" will be boosted to 300/100 in the background without request nor a price increase from Spark??

Is there a reason you haven't switched to the newer plan? I upgraded from the unplan entertainment plan, except they made an error and switched me to the slow 30/10 plan and dropped my Netflix, despite an email confirmation I was on the right plan. The two plans have similar sounding names so suspect it confused the staff member (everyday vs essential). . Took a day to get it all sorted out and I suspect there is still going to be a billing, so be careful and they blamed Chorus for the delay in getting it switched back. But with the new plan , I see I am now on 300/100.

cyril7

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#2818026 23-Nov-2021 18:27

RunningMan:
@morrisk best to start a new thread if you want help, as this is getting OT. The Mikrotik will obviously be your issue though, it's now a very old device with only 10/100 ports.

Even the original R1 with a 400Mhz CPU had Gig as I recall.

Cyril

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