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WartookMan

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#167408 12-Mar-2015 13:56
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Currently with Full Flavour on a 50/20Mbps service. I do a lot of remote work to the USA via VPNs and need as fast a service as possible. I'm considering upgrading to FF's 100/100Mbps service, but wanted to know if anyone else out there has a UFB service and what speeds they're getting.

Current stats are:
Tauranga, NZ to Raleigh, NC (USA)
Tauranga (NZ) to NC (USA)

Are there better UFB / ISP performers to the USA? And what carrier do they use?

Since these speeds are no where near the 50/20Mbps (or close to) I get to Auckland and local exchange, I'm wondering if it's even worth upgrading or whether I should be switching providers? Considering I get these rated speeds locally, there's nothing wrong with the wiring or modem / fibre connection, and is pure latency / congestion related to overseas.

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Interestingly, the speeds across to Australia have decreased over the last 12 months - possibly as more data is being transferred across the ditch. Historical figures show:

 

  • 18 April, 2014 - Ping: 44ms, Download: 28.22Mb/s, Upload: 19.30Mb/s

     

    • https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3446252989
  • 12 March, 2015 - Ping: 51ms, Download: 9.6Mb/s, Upload: 19.4Mb/s

     

    • https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4207139546
Tauranga, NZ to Melbourne, Vic (AUS)
Tauranga, NZ to Melbourne, Vic (AUS)

Thank you.

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  #1257508 12-Mar-2015 22:01
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There are some current issues with one of the transit upstreams we use (a fault was lodged with them a few hours ago).

We're getting good throughput on multi-thread download tests but poor throughput single-thread.

I was pulling over 400Mbps quite comfortably on a single download from the US the other night so it's definitely something we'll get fixed.

Once this is resolved I'll update this thread with the results, hopefully tomorrow.



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  #1257557 12-Mar-2015 23:24
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WartookMan: You might be right... looks like there's an internal issue with VOCUS (NZ Auckland) - unless that is the AKL (NZ) -to- CA (USA) connection.


I haven't had a notification from the upstream yet but it's looking much better.



1) Download from Los Angeles server:

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(160Mbps, not bad).



2) Speedtest.net Results

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Let me know how you get on now.

We're pretty serious about being the best local network in Tauranga - for example we're the only regional I'm aware of that's part of the Netflix OpenConnect program and that requires multiple gbps in capacity each night to fill the cache.

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