Telecom's conklin/mini dslams - false advertising?

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#52380 15-Nov-2006 09:26

I'm wondering if I could get any more bored by this.

If you are on a conklin DSLAM then 2Mbps is the fastest your line can deliver... Exactly as promised by Telecom. Your line has been unleashed. Just be grateful that you aren't one of those who can no longer receive broadband.

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#52383 15-Nov-2006 09:31

Dont the Conklins accpet upto 4 aggregate E1's, if so it is feasible that your could acheive pretty close to 7.6Mb/s with all sails up and towing down wind.

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#52394 15-Nov-2006 10:19

bradstewart:I'm wondering if I could get any more bored by this.

We'll know when you reach your limit when you stop joining these threads.

bradstewart:If you are on a conklin DSLAM then 2Mbps is the fastest your line can deliver... Exactly as promised by Telecom. Your line has been unleashed. Just be grateful that you aren't one of those who can no longer receive broadband.

The Conklin case is different because without them those customers wouldn't get BB but rather than relying on the iSP let the customer know that they are on a mini DSLAM with its limitations why not rate limit the Conklin to remove any doubt or false expection?

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#52438 15-Nov-2006 14:52

cyril7: Dont the Conklins accpet upto 4 aggregate E1's, if so it is feasible that your could acheive pretty close to 7.6Mb/s with all sails up and towing down wind.

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You could be right - I am connected to what I think is a Conklin (do Alcatel make those?) and getting 3.5mbit/s while ADSL is @8mbit/s - there are POTS line cards in our one aswell so I assume there is some reserved bandwidth for that on the backhaul. Telecom: Hurry up and deploy Gig and 10Gig Ethernet! MPLS isn't witchcraft!

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#52442 15-Nov-2006 15:43

bradstewart: I'm wondering if I could get any more bored by this.

If you are on a conklin DSLAM then 2Mbps is the fastest your line can deliver... Exactly as promised by Telecom. Your line has been unleashed. Just be grateful that you aren't one of those who can no longer receive broadband.

Is that official word from Telecom then? Last time I asked them about this, Stephen Crombie at Telecom said customers connected to the Conklins would not be put onto 3.5Mbit/s plans for instance, because there was no way they could achieve that.

Would expect a similar openness from Telecom towards customers after the rate-limiting's been taken off DSL here.

Who are the customers who can no longer get broadband?

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#52444 15-Nov-2006 15:47

juha:Who are the customers who can no longer get broadband?

According to the page xtra put up explaining the issues people were having, some people cannot get broadband becauseof increased noise and interference on the lines due to 'unleashing'

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#52445 15-Nov-2006 15:54

bradstewart: According to the page xtra put up explaining the issues people were having, some people cannot get broadband becauseof increased noise and interference on the lines due to 'unleashing'

Can't find that page - have you got a URL for it?

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#52451 15-Nov-2006 16:16

It was on here: http://www.xtra.co.nz/help/0,,4150-6478829,00.html but looks like they have removed that part. I'm sure it was also on http://www.xtraplans.co.nz

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#52452 15-Nov-2006 16:24

Its here:

http://www.xtraplans.co.nz > Click FAQ > How has my broadband speed changed. The bottoms line says: "For a very small number of customers, the increased interference may mean they can no longer get broadband at all"

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#52456 15-Nov-2006 17:26

Yep, cheers... following up on that at the moment.

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#52459 15-Nov-2006 17:36

I have seen someone from Xnet posting that they have arranged for some customers to be rate limited again to stop frequent disconnections. In some cases it is possible to be put back on the leash.

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#52477 15-Nov-2006 19:27

Bung: I have seen someone from Xnet posting that they have arranged for some customers to be rate limited again to stop frequent disconnections. In some cases it is possible to be put back on the leash.

Really? xtra, orcon and ihug all refuse to do it.

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#52488 15-Nov-2006 20:36

bradstewart:
I'm wondering if I could get any more bored by this.

If you are on a conklin DSLAM then 2Mbps is the fastest your line can deliver... Exactly as promised by Telecom. Your line has been unleashed. Just be grateful that you aren't one of those who can no longer receive broadband.

I don’t know? can you get more boreded?

A number of people here have taken my posting as a stab at Telecom and a moan about speeds.

If you take the time to re-read my post you'll see that I'm simply commenting on an observation I have made and offered a reasonable suggestion that would be fair on people that are unfortunately on conklins or some distance from the exchange/dslam and want more than 128kbps upstream.. to get that, one has to pay for a FS/FS plan.

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#52495 15-Nov-2006 21:08

Ahem ahem... civility, please...

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#52496 15-Nov-2006 21:09

No he's right the network does not belong to us. It's Telecoms and its shareholders.

Also no need to call somebody an idiot... Read the forum usage guidelines. No personal attacks

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