Chorus boosting 100/20 fibre to 300/100 in November/December

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#2833413 16-Dec-2021 13:11

After Slingshot offering a new router, the speed mysteriously went from 50/100 to 100/100, and been steady for a few days now. Don't want their crappy Netcom router, so I'll stay as I am I think. Sheesh!

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#2833429 16-Dec-2021 13:24

Do you have a switch in between?
DO you actually have a gigabit network card - that is set to auto negotiate?

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#2833855 17-Dec-2021 09:40

mentalinc:

Do you have a switch in between?

Yes, but I tested with the PC & laptop connected directly to the router. Speeds are 3mbps faster than the speed tested through the switch.

mentalinc:

DO you actually have a gigabit network card - that is set to auto negotiate?

Yes and yes.

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#2851276 15-Jan-2022 22:37

defragger:

johna8:

Is it a 7390 from say Snap/2Degrees? Then likely this setting won't be updating if you are on another provider.

Account Information - Internet Connection - Make sure Connection Settings are at least 1000 Mbit/s Down/Up specified.

Home Network - Network Settings - LAN Settings - make sure they aren't on green mode / power mode - especially the WAN port used.

If these are fine replace the cable - should at least be 1Gb connectivity between Fritz and ONT?

You can see this on the ONT too visually:

LAN Port LED
Orange - There is a 1Gbps device detected on the Port
Orange Flashing - There is 1Gbps data activity detected on the Port
Green - There is a 10/100Mbps device detected on the Port
Green Flashing - There is 10/100Mbps data activity detected on the Port

From what I can see on my 7490 - although would recommend picking up a 7490 for cheap.

Yep it is from Snap days, running it on Bigpipe. Have tried all those steps, even changed cable between Switch and Fritzbox. ONT LED is Green flashing (connected via original yellow cable, I think its gigabit) so I feel like its definitely the Fritzbox but I will play around a bit more this weekend. Thanks for the help so far folks! (I know kinda hijacking haha)

So finally got a resolution today. I ended up narrowing it down to ONT shortly after this with some dms to johna8, but then it took 6 weeks to convince Bigpipe + Chorus this.

Chorus came in today, swapped the ONT and presto, full 300/100 vs 100/100 perviously. So the bottleneck was the GE1 port / fibre box

Fairly happy :)

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#2851331 16-Jan-2022 09:19

Is anyone getting 300+ on Tuatahi (UFF)? I'm always getting about 283 and when I went to a friend's house who was chrous, they were getting 310ish

I'm on Orcon and the friend is on Trust power (so double vocus)

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#2851367 16-Jan-2022 11:18

It's up to 300, so your speeds are fine. However make sure you're not testing over wifi.

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#2851372 16-Jan-2022 11:22

St1ick: Is anyone getting 300+ on Tuatahi (UFF)? I'm always getting about 283 and when I went to a friend's house who was chrous, they were getting 310ish

I'm on Orcon and the friend is on Trust power (so double vocus)

Hi, Actual speed is an "upto" my guess is it all depends on how UFF and Chorus have setup their policer setup, these are well inside those variables.

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#2853162 19-Jan-2022 07:55

New Zealand's speeds have jumped on the Ookla speed test rankings up 11 places to number 11 for fixed broadband.

https://www.speedtest.net/global-index

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#2853170 19-Jan-2022 08:33

andrewcnz:
New Zealand's speeds have jumped on the Ookla speed test rankings up 11 places to number 11 for fixed broadband.

https://www.speedtest.net/global-index

Ha, so while we jumped up 11, the NBN dropped Australia back 4, oh dear.

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#2853197 19-Jan-2022 09:41

Just got notice at work, that our 200/100 business fibre with Inspire has had a free upgrade to 300/300 which is nice! Had been just thinking it was a bad deal now after all the residential speed boosts! (And we actually speed tested the it at 320/410 the other day!)

Does anyone know if this a universal Chorus upgrade, or just an Inspire thing?

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#2853220 19-Jan-2022 10:32

Hi, it all depends if its via UFB or Inspires own fibre (of which they have a lot), I just checked one of our work connections that is on Inspires own fibre and its still 200/100

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#2853224 19-Jan-2022 10:45

It was mentioned in their recent newsletter that business speeds were increasing, it doesnt differentiate between Chorus/Inspire fibre so possibly its based on billing rollover?

https://www.inspire.net.nz/newsletter/jan-2022

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#2853250 19-Jan-2022 11:14

Yeah, we have Chorus provided business fibre with Inspire. I found this page:

https://sp.chorus.co.nz/product-update/chorus-future-fibre-portfolio-confirmed-changes

....and whilst it doesn't mention 200/100 connections, it does talks about 100/100 jumping to 300/300... so it looks like it might well be a Chorus thing... in which case presumably other ISPs will be doing this too!

Will also be interesting to see if Inspire's own fibre speeds up too...(although that might need more time if their equipment isn't up to it, or needs "re-configuring" to make it happen... whereas Chorus presumably did all the background work & config checks before making their announcements... making it easier for ISPs to follow along without much work for Chorus fibre).

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#2853777 19-Jan-2022 18:26

andrewcnz:

New Zealand's speeds have jumped on the Ookla speed test rankings up 11 places to number 11 for fixed broadband.

https://www.speedtest.net/global-index

Screenshots for posterity:

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#2857157 27-Jan-2022 13:50

Linux:...Northpower have confirmed changes are coming Jan 2022 - 300/100...

@Linux: Probably jumping the gun here as January 2022 is quite over.... but my NorthPower located fibre network hasn't been upgraded yet.

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