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Pumpedd

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#198997 31-Jul-2016 09:02

Any feedback here would be appreciated.

I have been a Vodafone Cable User for many years and have lived through the congestion and was heavily affected and had always thought I would ditch VF as soon as I was able.

I have just moved house and VF setup my cable and it seems have changed my speed form 100/10 to 50/2.

I am a heavy gamer (WoW) and actually have noticed no difference between the 100/10(old house) and the 50/2(new house). In game latency to LA servers is still around 150ms.

My question is....what difference would I expect to see if I changed to UFB as this is available on my street? Would my gaming latency to the US reduce..etc

Any thoughts appreciated.

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#1601517 31-Jul-2016 09:02

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#1601532 31-Jul-2016 09:06

Latency of 150ms to US is not that bad if you want low latency then it might be easier to move to the US

Speed and Latency are different and cause of faster access does not always mean lower latency

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#1601534 31-Jul-2016 09:08

Your latency is due to the physical distance to LA, not the type of broadband you have.

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#1601536 31-Jul-2016 09:13

Your latency might drop by a few ms on fiber, but then it may go up as well. I doubt any change would be significant.

Benefits of fiber over cable is it works in power cuts (you can use a Sentry Lite or similar as backup power), it has MUCH lower congestion, generally faster, more choice of ISP, and it's really reliable. I've had fiber for a year, an overhead install in windy Wellington, it's been rock solid.

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#1601585 31-Jul-2016 11:44

Pumpedd:

Any feedback here would be appreciated.

I have been a Vodafone Cable User for many years and have lived through the congestion and was heavily affected and had always thought I would ditch VF as soon as I was able.

I have just moved house and VF setup my cable and it seems have changed my speed form 100/10 to 50/2.

I am a heavy gamer (WoW) and actually have noticed no difference between the 100/10(old house) and the 50/2(new house). In game latency to LA servers is still around 150ms.

My question is....what difference would I expect to see if I changed to UFB as this is available on my street? Would my gaming latency to the US reduce..etc

Any thoughts appreciated.

You may have been provisioned wrongly - are you paying for 100/10 or 50/2Mbps?

Have you signed a new 12-month contract after the move?

As a long-suffering Wellington cable user myself, I would opt for fibre if it was an option for me - not because of latency (as discussed above) but because of HFC's terrible peak congestion problems.

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#1601589 31-Jul-2016 11:49

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Pumpedd:

Any feedback here would be appreciated.

I have been a Vodafone Cable User for many years and have lived through the congestion and was heavily affected and had always thought I would ditch VF as soon as I was able.

I have just moved house and VF setup my cable and it seems have changed my speed form 100/10 to 50/2.

I am a heavy gamer (WoW) and actually have noticed no difference between the 100/10(old house) and the 50/2(new house). In game latency to LA servers is still around 150ms.

My question is....what difference would I expect to see if I changed to UFB as this is available on my street? Would my gaming latency to the US reduce..etc

Any thoughts appreciated.

You may have been provisioned wrongly - are you paying for 100/10 or 50/2Mbps?

Have you signed a new 12-month contract after the move?

As a long-suffering Wellington cable user myself, I would opt for fibre if it was an option for me - not because of latency (as discussed above) but because of HFC's terrible peak congestion problems.

I am not to worried about the drop in speed from 100/10 as that can be fixed by calling them. I did get a significant reduction to my monthly fee for about a year...but as we all know that wasnt the real issue that irked us all.

I really wanted to go UFB with Bigpipe but they dont do my area sadly so will probably order 2 degrees. From what I read Myrepublic are very dissapointing.

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#1601592 31-Jul-2016 11:56

Pumpedd:

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I am not to worried about the drop in speed from 100/10 as that can be fixed by calling them. I did get a significant reduction to my monthly fee for about a year...but as we all know that wasnt the real issue that irked us all.

I really wanted to go UFB with Bigpipe but they dont do my area sadly so will probably order 2 degrees. From what I read Myrepublic are very dissapointing.

+1 Good plan

Avoid MR:

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