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mutey

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#3290156 2-Oct-2024 18:00

This is an update to my 5g wireless broadband experiment,

The dream is now over. performance has well and truly fallen off a cliff,

The last few weeks it has dropped to sub 100 mbps download speeds and lag and jitter to the moon.

I logged a case and got the standard 'have you rebooted your router' and then another followup response again asking me to again 'reboot my router' two weeks later after I made a response.

Every reboot it got slower, 100 mbps became 80 mbps became 13 -20 mbps download.

Upload and download speeds have almost reached parity between 10-20 mbps and lag is through the roof.

It was ok while it lasted but I dont think anyone should accept paying for this level of performance.

So I am happy to admit it did eventually either get saturated with to many customers or they just started throttling connections to push people off the service.

Fun while it lasted and I'm now going with naked fibre

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#3290159 2-Oct-2024 18:08

Fibre is 🤴 hands down

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#3290161 2-Oct-2024 18:17

My Picking order

1. Can you get fibre? if no then
2. Is VDSL above 50mbps? if no then
3. Can you afford/use Starlink? if no then
4. Fixed wireless

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#3290193 2-Oct-2024 19:13

I wonder if you were connecting to a congested 4G (or even 3G?) tower to cause this to happen? I thought 5G had lots of bandwidth/capacity - albeit not nearly as much as fibre though.

mutey

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#3295751 10-Oct-2024 22:26

I was getting a solid 5/5 bars on both 4g and 5g, data was certainly being sent and received over the 5g connection however it seems 2 degrees has been having some really weird stuff going on on their network.

I did cancel the service and yesterday was my last day

Extremely 'variable' is how I could best describe the 5g wireless broadband service in central Auckland where I am, sometimes 600 mbps down sometimes (esp last few weeks ) so slow and laggy I couldnt run a sd video without it stopping and starting.

Happily on Quic fibre now with byo modem on 300/100 and pings back to where they should be :sub 180 ms instead of the insane 4000ms + I was seeing on some US West servers.

My Dad has committed to a 4g broadband service and reckons its fine for him, but he is unlikely to really notice lower performance and cost was his main driver and he lives in a much less populated area of NZ and his provider is different too.

So yeah horses for courses.

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