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#584672 21-Feb-2012 16:46

DravidDavid:
freitasm: This is the result using TelstraClear's own speedtest site, to Wellington:

How on earth do you get results like that? Is this the connections the forums are on or something? Or your residential connection?

He is on a 100Mbps cable connection.

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#584673 21-Feb-2012 16:47

Geekzone is colocated with Datacom in Auckland, not running it from home.

This is a 100 Mbps cable connection.

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#584680 21-Feb-2012 16:59

not running it from home.

...That's cheating.

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#584681 21-Feb-2012 17:01

DravidDavid:
not running it from home.

...That's cheating.

I think you missed the point. You asked if that was Geekzone, and I said Geekzone *IS NOT RUNNING FROM HOME*.

The test I posted is my 100 Mbps home connection.

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#584683 21-Feb-2012 17:06

freitasm:
The test I posted is my 100 Mbps home connection.

Where on earth do you get a 100Mbps connection to your home? I thought VDSL2 was the fastest available service in this country.

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#584687 21-Feb-2012 17:09

DravidDavid:
freitasm:
The test I posted is my 100 Mbps home connection.

Where on earth do you get a 100Mbps connection to your home? I thought VDSL2 was the fastest available service in this country.

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#584688 21-Feb-2012 17:12

DravidDavid:
freitasm:
The test I posted is my 100 Mbps home connection.

Where on earth do you get a 100Mbps connection to your home? I thought VDSL2 was the fastest available service in this country.

I think you missed my post:

codyc1515:
DravidDavid:
freitasm: This is the result using TelstraClear's own speedtest site, to Wellington:

How on earth do you get results like that? Is this the connections the forums are on or something? Or your residential connection?

He is on a 100Mbps cable connection.

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#584699 21-Feb-2012 17:46

Yea, missed cody's post.

Wish I could have gotten in on the trial. It would be nice if that kind of connection was made available soon. :)

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#584707 21-Feb-2012 17:56

Vodafone Naked DSL Red network in Auckland.

Auckland

Sydney

Los Angeles

Do whatever you want to do man.

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#584731 21-Feb-2012 18:43

Orcon Genius at home...

INTERNET
ADSL: CONNECTED
Mode: G.992.5 (ADSL2+)
Download: 15966 Kbps.
Upload: 937 Kbps.

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#584901 22-Feb-2012 00:23

Slingshot $60 uncapped plan LLU connection 2kms from exchange.

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#584976 22-Feb-2012 09:35

Truenet has selected volunteers to ensure we have a common size sample for each ISP rather than a representative sample of NZ. We did this because we are more interested in comparing NZ ISPs but less interested in international comparisons. The lack of a need to compare NZ results means we do not need a statistically valid sample for NZ.
However, our sample is certainly big and the collection process robust, we can only speculate on how representative it is. We have details of distances from the DSLAM which we will at some stage compare with NZ cable lengths to see if the selection is random, but there is no reason why it should not be, most volunteers are unlikely to choose to volunteer with any bias in relation to their copper length.

For all FS/FS ADSL2+ volunteers the average speed, including peak and off peak periods, is 9.5Mb/s.

Here is a chart by time of day;

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#584985 22-Feb-2012 09:43

Blenheim to Auckland, with ISP (pacific.net) in Nelson

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#585014 22-Feb-2012 10:21

The TrueNet chart should pretty much end this thread - the answer is right there.

On this note, I'd recommend people join TrueNet to participate in the data collection.

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#585064 22-Feb-2012 11:24

Thanks Mauricio,

yes we need more volunteers, we expect a 3-fold increase in probe requirements in the near future.

We are especially keen on more in the SI and more minor ISPs, however are now collecting volunteers in all places from all ISPs.

Volunteers are asked to allocate us a standard 1GB/month cap, with larger options available. We use the larger cap volunteer probes for experimentation (we will be publishing a comparison of banks/ISP links shortly based on a trial) Our next trial will be testing video using the larger caps, so the greater our cap the better.

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