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

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#2816871 22-Nov-2021 09:35

timmmay:

2degrees Wellington, my upload has increased to about 100Mbps :) Nice free upgrade. If the download jumps a bit at some point, great, but the upload is the main thing for backups.

No change in Auckland. Is\will this change be automatically passed on to chorus customers or is it something ISPs have to "opt into" ?

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#2816878 22-Nov-2021 09:47

We've had the upgrade as of today (both up and down) - Voyager in Wellington.

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#2816939 22-Nov-2021 10:02

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timmmay:

2degrees Wellington, my upload has increased to about 100Mbps :) Nice free upgrade. If the download jumps a bit at some point, great, but the upload is the main thing for backups.

No change in Auckland. Is\will this change be automatically passed on to chorus customers or is it something ISPs have to "opt into" ?

It's been talked about further up in the thread.

Basically some ISPs it's automatic, others will need to make changes (some may also make it a paid upgrade).

Depends how the ISP runs things. (from my understanding.)

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#2816975 22-Nov-2021 11:15

TechnoGuy001:

It's been talked about further up in the thread.

Basically some ISPs it's automatic, others will need to make changes (some may also make it a paid upgrade).

Depends how the ISP runs things. (from my understanding.)

Sorry, I haven't followed the whole thread. I'm with 2 degrees like Timmmay, but I'm still not clear on whether they in particular will be passing this on automatically or not - maybe a question for @SarahRykers I guess? :)

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#2816999 22-Nov-2021 12:02

sidefx:

TechnoGuy001:

It's been talked about further up in the thread.

Basically some ISPs it's automatic, others will need to make changes (some may also make it a paid upgrade).

Depends how the ISP runs things. (from my understanding.)

Sorry, I haven't followed the whole thread. I'm with 2 degrees like Timmmay, but I'm still not clear on whether they in particular will be passing this on automatically or not - maybe a question for @SarahRykers I guess? :)

I didn't mean it as anything negative, there are 9 pages now, can't expect people to read them all, I just mentioned it incase you wanted more details.

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#2817028 22-Nov-2021 13:10

PANiCnz:

Has this gone live? I'm getting 300 down and 100 up on Bigpipe this morning. Kind of moot because I'm moving over to gigabit with Skinny later this week.

You must have been a luckily test on their system, I spoke to one of the BigPipe support staff over chat about this to see if there was an ETA but they said they hadn't been given any information about this upgrade yet and that emails would probably be sent out when more information was available.

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#2817204 22-Nov-2021 16:21

sidefx:

TechnoGuy001:

It's been talked about further up in the thread.

Basically some ISPs it's automatic, others will need to make changes (some may also make it a paid upgrade).

Depends how the ISP runs things. (from my understanding.)

Sorry, I haven't followed the whole thread. I'm with 2 degrees like Timmmay, but I'm still not clear on whether they in particular will be passing this on automatically or not - maybe a question for @SarahRykers I guess? :)

Hey GZ,

Can confirm the 300/100 boost will be automatically passed on to the end user. We'll have an update go out to our customer base with more details soon.

Is it too early to say Merry Christmas? ;)

Cheers,

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#2817231 22-Nov-2021 17:53

My connection on Spark (in Wellington) just bumped up also ... nice!

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#2817245 22-Nov-2021 19:10

I'm on Vodafone in Wellington and nothing has changed yet.

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#2817246 22-Nov-2021 19:10

Spark have updated their fibre product page to say 102Mbps or 300Mbps Download 22Mbps or 100Mbps Upload. How do you know which one you are gonna get before committing?

Don't really want to go from 900/500 to 100/20 by accident.

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#2817248 22-Nov-2021 19:13

On Spark in Wellington and connection has gone from 100/20 to 300/100. Nice.

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#2817256 22-Nov-2021 19:29

Alexmkiwi:

Spark have updated their fibre product page to say 102Mbps or 300Mbps Download 22Mbps or 100Mbps Upload. How do you know which one you are gonna get before committing?

Don't really want to go from 900/500 to 100/20 by accident.

Suggest you wait a couple of months until the upgrades are all sorted out, then you call them to check your address.

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#2817263 22-Nov-2021 19:45

What a nice surprise.

Gone from spark 100/20 to 300/20 Lower Hutt

Thanks to all involved 😃

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#2817274 22-Nov-2021 20:12

Orcon dragging the chain. Here in "coming weeks".

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#2817278 22-Nov-2021 20:18

Alexmkiwi:

Spark have updated their fibre product page to say 102Mbps or 300Mbps Download 22Mbps or 100Mbps Upload. How do you know which one you are gonna get before committing?

Don't really want to go from 900/500 to 100/20 by accident.

The reason the Spark website is a little ambiguous about this is because it is LFC dependent as to what set of speeds you'll get (100/20 vs 300/100). Not all of the LFCs are making changes at precisely the same time or in the same manner. PM me your address and I can let you know which set of speeds you'll get.

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