Will I have to contact spark for my parents place to get the faster speed? Or will spark do this automatically? 

Batman:

 

Will I have to contact spark for my parents place to get the faster speed? Or will spark do this automatically? 

 

If its like last time when 100/20 got upgraded to 300/100 it will take a few months, and ISPs will slowly update their products and automatically upgrade customers. 

Nate001:

 

If its like last time when 100/20 got upgraded to 300/100 it will take a few months, and ISPs will slowly update their products and automatically upgrade customers. 

 

Ok so no fast speed when we visit on otago anniversary weekend. 

cddt:

 

TechnoGuy001:

 

...it pains me to see ISPs offering 4g/5g for (usually unsuspecting) residential customers, instead of rock solid, consistently fast fibre.

 

 

It's incredible how many people swear black and blue they find FWA to be better than fibre. 99.9% of the time they find fibre a poor experience because they have thirty devices connected to a decade-old router which only offers 802.11n...

 

Or have the ONT and router in a stupid place but put the FWA box where wifi works properly to the devices is the one I have found. Of course fibre is crap if you put the useless fritzbox in a garage on the far wall and then add 2.4GHz repeaters because noel leeming told you they were good.

allio:

 

Not going to complain about a free speed upgrade but it's disheartening to see the plans becoming more and more asymmetrical over time. That's something that I would have been happy to leave behind in the DSL days (remember 2Mb/128Kb?). It also negatively differentiates our otherwise world-class fibre network from the rest of the world's, which is generally symmetrical from what I see.

 

Really hope this trait doesn't bleed over into hyperfibre.

 

But GPON is assymetric, so they have to have plans that are to keep within the very sane split numbers they do here. Otherwise it would end up like the crap cable networks in the states where they promise great upload speeds but then in peak times no-one is able to stream to twitch because the upload sucks.

The faster PONs are also asymmetric. I expect when they move past 8 gig hyperfibre we will see split plans again once consumer plan priced CPE becomes available with 25 gig and higher ports.

cddt:

 

TechnoGuy001:

 

...it pains me to see ISPs offering 4g/5g for (usually unsuspecting) residential customers, instead of rock solid, consistently fast fibre.

 

 

It's incredible how many people swear black and blue they find FWA to be better than fibre. 99.9% of the time they find fibre a poor experience because they have thirty devices connected to a decade-old router which only offers 802.11n...

 

Yep - I have heard people complain that their fibre is 'useless/bad'.

Its surprising to me how many people have no understanding of how any of this works.

If their laptop/TV/phone doesnt get a fast relaible connection them they just blame the product.

Wifi router location and age are nearly always to blame. Routers nearly all seem to cook themselves after 4 years or so and just start going strange.

freitasm:

 

Except the folks that use Starlink and praise it like the best thing in the world. 

 

And the sales people trying to push fixed wireless because the telco then won't have to pay Chorus for a connection.

 

For most customers coming from terrible DSL or patchy / congested mobile to Starlink is going to be amazing.

cddt: It's incredible how many people swear black and blue they find FWA to be better than fibre. 99.9% of the time they find fibre a poor experience because they have thirty devices connected to a decade-old router which only offers 802.11n...

With more and more giant cellular towers popping up along main roads like mushrooms after rain to meet demand I've been wondering what's driving it, this would explain it.

Batman:

 

DimasikTurbo:

 

Makes 1000/500 usefull to just a few who needs to upload ton of data and not waste time on this.

 

 

 

 

Well when fortnite gets an update the 5 of us max out the download... So I would like to see 2500 as my router can handle that lol. 

 

The proper solution is for Epic launcher to do as Steam does and allow local file transfers to other Steam clients who are on your friends list.

Still waiting for 1000/1000

Don't care for hyper fibre 

neb:

 

cddt: It's incredible how many people swear black and blue they find FWA to be better than fibre. 99.9% of the time they find fibre a poor experience because they have thirty devices connected to a decade-old router which only offers 802.11n...

 

With more and more giant cellular towers popping up along main roads like mushrooms after rain to meet demand I've been wondering what's driving it, this would explain it.

 

If they want more 5G then there's going to be a lot more towers.

alasta:

 

cddt:

 

It's incredible how many people swear black and blue they find FWA to be better than fibre. 99.9% of the time they find fibre a poor experience because they have thirty devices connected to a decade-old router which only offers 802.11n...

 

 

I don't think I've ever heard anyone argue that fixed wireless is 'better' in any way

I have. Just take a look at some of the comments on Chorus's own Facebook page - there's usually at least one self-declared "expert" on there saying something like "oh, I had fibre and it was slow as hell...I changed to wireless and it's much faster!" What they forget to mention is (a) a scenario like cddt's outlined above, or (b) their router is located at the other end of their house, far, far away from any devices that they want to connect to it.

They then run out and buy a wireless connection instead and sit it in the middle of the house and claim it's "better", whereas if they just moved their modem connected to fibre, well...

Edit; didn't see Richard's post above - same thoughts as me!

PolicyGuy:

 

Are the other players (Northpower, Tuatahi & Enable) going to follow?

I'm on Tuatahi's network and I'd probably downgrade from 300/100Mbps to 100/20Mbps to save a few dollars a month if it was on offer. 100/20 is plenty fast enough for me

 

I would assume so. The other LFCs followed suit a few months later last time Chorus did their speed bump.

cddt:

 

TechnoGuy001:

 

...it pains me to see ISPs offering 4g/5g for (usually unsuspecting) residential customers, instead of rock solid, consistently fast fibre.

 

 

It's incredible how many people swear black and blue they find FWA to be better than fibre. 99.9% of the time they find fibre a poor experience because they have thirty devices connected to a decade-old router which only offers 802.11n...

 

Apartment Complex landlords are stingy and many won't install fibre coz of costs of install so the 4G/5G has been helpful after the copper removal.

What really needs to happen is Fibre needs to become essential utility like power and water, mandating installs in cities at least.

Huntakillaz:

 

Apartment Complex landlords are stingy and many won't install fibre coz of costs of install so the 4G/5G has been helpful after the copper removal.

 

What really needs to happen is Fibre needs to become essential utility like power and water, mandating installs in cities at least.

 

And that is why a fibre ONT in the actual rented property needs to be made a legal requirement of having a rentable house. Much more use than a stupid wall mounted heater in a living room that noone spends much time in like they force landlords to provide, or a token cooking appliance in the side of a one bed studio aparment that will at best be used to heat leftovers occasionally.

If it cant be installed and there is fibre in the street outside, guess what, no rent the property out. Push it over and build something else or sell it to an owner occupier.

None of this ONT in the basement and you get a copper down to it BS like Australia has been plagued with, you get the actual ONT, in your actual house.