Chorus exploring upgrading Home Fibre 300 plan from 300/100Mbps to 500/100Mbps

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#3308402 13-Nov-2024 09:18

I would like the upload speed to be raised on 300/100 plan.

I use 1000/500 for the upload speed.

So, 300/100 move 500/200 (or better) would be nice for me.

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#3308411 13-Nov-2024 09:39

Gosh, remembering back only around 6 years ago when I was in London, our internet speed was so slow at around 50Mbps and upload speed was so slow that it took longer than Amazon AWS Lambda's upload timeout period for a 5MB package.

I remember leaving New Zealand, we were still on 256bps Jetstream in 2018?

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#3308422 13-Nov-2024 10:20

turtleattacks:.

I remember leaving New Zealand, we were still on 256bps Jetstream in 2018?

in 2012 I had Telstraclear Cable 130/20, I had to fork out a horrendous amount of money back in the day to get a gigiabit router to use the extra 30mbps

in 2014 I moved out of Wellington CBD back to 18/1 ADSL

Moved again in 2017 to Titahi Bay to 9/0.5 ADSL then finally got fibre

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#3308442 13-Nov-2024 10:43

They need to stop mucking the RSPs about and just offer the mass market plans as layer 3 connections IMO

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#3308445 13-Nov-2024 10:50

turtleattacks:

I remember leaving New Zealand, we were still on 256bps Jetstream in 2018?

I think you are more than 10 years out of whack there :D
128/256k, etc jetsteam were moved to 'as fast as your DSL line allows" in something like 2006 to 2008
By 2018 we already have VDSL with Vectoring

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#3308447 13-Nov-2024 10:51

yitz:

They need to stop mucking the RSPs about and just offer the mass market plans as layer 3 connections IMO

I was going to ignore this, but this comment is way off the mark...

We are a regulated wholesale provider and are unable to offer layer3 or above services.
There is zero "mucking the RSPs about" going on here.

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#3308452 13-Nov-2024 11:02

RunningMan:

Not much discussion, but the other part of the linked consultation was changing 50/10 to 80/40.

That's a very usable increase in both directions.

Yes the 80/40 would suit a lot of people. Not sure whether some of the RSPs (ie the one's with 4G networks) would feel about it though.

I see that Chorus is increasing the price for Home Fibre Starter 50 on 1 st Jan. The price cap that has gone up $5 this month (RSPs were allowed to charge a max of $60pm for the 50/10 plan if they wanted a cheap rate from Chorus) . The new cap is $65pm . So i'm guessing that the proposed 80/40 plan might come with a slight increased cost to the consumer.

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#3308456 13-Nov-2024 11:20

tim0001:

80/40 would suit a lot of people. Not sure whether some of the RSPs (ie the one's with 4G networks) would feel about it though.

I suspect that 4G Networks operators are very much front of mind for Chorus,

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#3308477 13-Nov-2024 12:01

wellygary:

tim0001:

80/40 would suit a lot of people. Not sure whether some of the RSPs (ie the one's with 4G networks) would feel about it though.

I suspect that 4G Networks operators are very much front of mind for Chorus,

100% and with 5G Wireless Broadband now cheaper than 300/100 plans the LFCs are going to have to re-think their strategy

IMHO nothing will EVER beat fiber, I would still take a 50/10 Fiber over a 100/30 VDSL or a 4G/5G connection any day

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#3308484 13-Nov-2024 12:24

RunningMan:

Not much discussion, but the other part of the linked consultation was changing 50/10 to 80/40.

That's a very usable increase in both directions.

This is the one that matters the most. 4x performance, and less issues with it choking up because a phone is backing up.

Zero reason to be crippling connections to 10 megabits which is known to make it unusable without some QOS in the router, and the sort of person buying that plan is not going to have the skills to set up their own router so will just blame the internet not working on the kids.

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#3308491 13-Nov-2024 12:35

tim0001:

Yes the 80/40 would suit a lot of people. Not sure whether some of the RSPs (ie the one's with 4G networks) would feel about it though.

I would hope that it would make them revisit the prices of their mobile data services as they cannot compete with this at peak times with the upload plummeting into single digits in many cases.

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#3308549 13-Nov-2024 15:40

I remote to a pc in Perth , Australia and the owner just upgraded their fibre speed to "1gbit" its gets about 920 down, and a useless 40 mbits up speed, So its pretty near unusable for remote desktop usage.

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#3308550 13-Nov-2024 15:43

Apsattv:

I remote to a pc in Perth , Australia and the owner just upgraded their fibre speed to "1gbit" its gets about 920 down, and a useless 40 mbits up speed, So its pretty near unusable for remote desktop usage.

They have a legacy low split cable network that they cant possibly have fiber running at faster speeds than, because that would show that coax is an inferior medium and that would make them have to do FTTP upgrades in those areas.

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#3308553 13-Nov-2024 15:47

Apsattv:

I remote to a pc in Perth , Australia and the owner just upgraded their fibre speed to "1gbit" its gets about 920 down, and a useless 40 mbits up speed, So its pretty near unusable for remote desktop usage.

40Mbps is plenty of speed for a Remote Desktop connection.

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#3308557 13-Nov-2024 15:54

CYaBro:

Apsattv:

I remote to a pc in Perth , Australia and the owner just upgraded their fibre speed to "1gbit" its gets about 920 down, and a useless 40 mbits up speed, So its pretty near unusable for remote desktop usage.

40Mbps is plenty of speed for a Remote Desktop connection.

I reckon no issues at all

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