I was just wondering about this short segment of fibre that's near us. It would appear to go from our rural exchange to the Telecom cellphone tower (if you walk the road there's a few no-dig, here lies fibre placards) . I've heard that our area's backhaul goes out out via the tower, would this be likely? We've been suffering peak time congestion lately (didn't really have an issue with this since switching to Telecom a few years ago) and I was wondering where it's getting choked up. I'm assuming we're on a Conklin as when the connections is running fine, downloads are a touch over 3Mbps but sync is 832000/7616000. When congested, the traffic is very sawtoothed and lucky to peak over 1Mbps down.

So, do you think they would be; utilising the fibre at all as backhaul to the tower and then going out to the wider world from there, using the fibre in the reverse direction and copper heads off somewhere else, the fibre's dark, or...?

Our local school is scheduled for a microwave link which would seem to leave everyone else in the lurch in regards to expanding the bandwidth pool in the foreseeable future so I'm going to see about line of sight to a wireless provider but it would be good to know if that little bit of fibre could be being utilised better...

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