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Therk

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#609258 14-Apr-2012 13:28

Therk: In the great city of Auckland...

With an ADSL2 cabinet across the street :'(

I'm finally in the 21st century :)

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#609261 14-Apr-2012 13:44

What was the fix? Internal wiring or Chorus cabling?

Therk

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#609272 14-Apr-2012 14:05

sbiddle: What was the fix? Internal wiring or Chorus cabling?

Basically Chorus stuffed up the cabling for our street. He said with some luck he could transfer us from the henderson exchange to the cabinet over the street - and he managed to :)

New Stats:

Before this downstream attenuation was about 52 and speed about 1.5 - 2.5 mbit

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#609337 14-Apr-2012 16:51

Therk:
Therk: In the great city of Auckland...

With an ADSL2 cabinet across the street :'(

I'm finally in the 21st century :)

hows it feel to have real broadband :P

Colinspocket

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#609353 14-Apr-2012 17:38

Although I think a flatmate might be using the net right now and I know our router isn't plugged into the best jack in the house.

I have a question about finding out which cabinet/exchange you are on. The Chorus SAT just shows an area, I mean I can see that I'm in an ADSL2+ and a VDSL area, but it does not show me where the cabinet is or what I am connected to? Will I need to call Chorus to determine this? I have wanted to know this for a while.

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#609354 14-Apr-2012 17:42

Colinspocket:
Although I think a flatmate might be using the net right now and I know our router isn't plugged into the best jack in the house.

I have a question about finding out which cabinet/exchange you are on. The Chorus SAT just shows an area, I mean I can see that I'm in an ADSL2+ and a VDSL area, but it does not show me where the cabinet is or what I am connected to? Will I need to call Chorus to determine this? I have wanted to know this for a while.

You can't contact Chorus directly because you have no direct relationship with them.

All the information you want including your cabinet/exchange name and location, ISAM port and your current sync stats are available to your ISP who can view these. Whether they'll provide it to you is another issue.

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#609364 14-Apr-2012 18:12

sbiddle:

Although I think a flatmate might be using the net right now and I know our router isn't plugged into the best jack in the house.

I have a question about finding out which cabinet/exchange you are on. The Chorus SAT just shows an area, I mean I can see that I'm in an ADSL2+ and a VDSL area, but it does not show me where the cabinet is or what I am connected to? Will I need to call Chorus to determine this? I have wanted to know this for a while.

You can't contact Chorus directly because you have no direct relationship with them.

All the information you want including your cabinet/exchange name and location, ISAM port and your current sync stats are available to your ISP who can view these. Whether they'll provide it to you is another issue.

Oh right. How come everyone here seems to know this though? I guess they've just asked their ISP? Just had a quick browse at our cabling, it's terrible. Cat 5E but runs next to power for meters, and I have no idea what cable runs to the jack we have the router connected to, must be 10+ years old at least though. Still, not much difference in speed when we connect the router to the "fastest" jack though!?

Edit: Another question for Slingshot uncapped users, have you had any trouble with throttling? What about after using P2P? Considering switching to them but with our already average speeds I don't know if I could handle throttling.

pegi

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#609433 14-Apr-2012 22:25

Therk:
Therk: In the great city of Auckland...

With an ADSL2 cabinet across the street :'(

I'm finally in the 21st century :)

You go 10x faster now... Good stuff.

pegi

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#609850 16-Apr-2012 10:15

pegi:

I am approx. 200m from the street cabinet with ADSL2+ but I think I am still connected to the exchange 4-5km away
And I am in West Auckland...

I am now connected to the cabinet on my street and my speed is now:

Much happier now...

Therk

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#609955 16-Apr-2012 12:25

pegi:
pegi:

I am approx. 200m from the street cabinet with ADSL2+ but I think I am still connected to the exchange 4-5km away
And I am in West Auckland...

I am now connected to the cabinet on my street and my speed is now:

Much happier now...

Congrats, and welcome to the club :)

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#610199 16-Apr-2012 19:56

This is my poor result. I'm on Vodafone ultimate naked broadband. Connected to the Massey exchange.

I had Chorus fit a master filter and run cat5 to the one and only jackpoint used in the house { No home phone} made no improvement.

Speed Test

Line Mode              ADSL2+            Line State           Show Time
Line Power State    L0                 Line Up Time       05:12:48:08
Line Coding            Trellis On     Line Up Count      1

Statistics                        Downstream    Upstream
Line Rate                       5123 Kbps       897 Kbps
Attainable Line Rate        6550 Kbps       902 Kbps
Noise Margin                   12.9 dB          13.1 dB
Line Attenuation              39.0 dB          20.3 dB
Output Power                  18.5 dBm        12.3 dBm

I'm using a Dynalink RTA1025W. I also have a Vodafone complete modem/router but the Dynalink seems to be a bit more stable.

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#610481 17-Apr-2012 12:49

I finally got some progress with Vodafone, They are going to switch me to a Telecom wholesale connection. Process should take about two weeks. Fingers crossed this improves my speeds.

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#610869 17-Apr-2012 22:51

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