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  #1256843 12-Mar-2015 09:31
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Please come to my street asap. I'm quite depressed.



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  #1257383 12-Mar-2015 19:12
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For those who want speed results my friend reported he got 470 / 430 Mb/s up/down to Sydney last week.

I'm a few months away from Gigabit fibre myself still.
Not convinced it will change my life, but still be nice to have :)

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  #1257431 12-Mar-2015 19:57
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Delphinus: Set up a customer earlier this week through Snap. This is a speedtest to the Snap Chch server. 1ms ping to the Dunedin server. Sorry about the poor quality image.

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Now I feel quite slow.





You can also follow me on twitter here @kiwifortw I do twitch streams every now and then at twitch.tv/kiwiforthewin :)

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  #1257433 12-Mar-2015 20:06
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KrazyKid: For those who want speed results my friend reported he got 470 / 430 Mb/s up/down to Sydney last week.

I'm a few months away from Gigabit fibre myself still.
Not convinced it will change my life, but still be nice to have :)


what will change is that when you travel (overseas, friend's place, use mobile phone) it will be difficult to wait, rather miserable. so i don't plan to use the internet when i travel once i get gigafibre

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  #1257613 13-Mar-2015 08:54
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I was lucky and had my gigabit fibre go live a few days ahead of the public release through my provider Orcon. Have to say that I have overall been pleased with the results. I have discovered one thing with the new speed that I didn't think of before hand. I have a number of computers in the house and none of them got very good results when running a speedtest even locally. Found out that it was due to my machines not been able to handle the full speed (they are a tad old). Had a friend bring over his newer computer and that is how I got the result shown below. It doesn't worry me that none of my machines can get the full speed to itself as there is normally more than one in use at once anyway.

I will borrow machine again and test to other locations.


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  #1257614 13-Mar-2015 08:56
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That's just amazing! too bad i gotta wait untill 2016 to get it. :(

 
 
 
 

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  #1257675 13-Mar-2015 09:29
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Assuming the test ran for 30s at 908Mbps you've just churned through 3.4GB of data.

Slap on the wrist for those 100GB plans, you can accidentally use it up in 15mins or so (just downloading).
If you download and upload will take just 10mins.

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