Maybe an NGA fibre connection would be a better fit instead - it will be costly, but you'd get faster speeds and no data caps.

Geektastic:

Jase2985:

 

what do you do that needs the extra speed?

 

Everything. Why would I not want more speed?

There are two of us working from home, I need to upload large image files, there are two computers backed up off site (when we had VDSL one of them to 6 months to back up working overnight!), TV, music, IoT, security system monitoring, CCTV monitoring, house automation etc etc.

Why not get as much speed as possible? Why accept a lower standard than I already have? The world will only increase its need for speed and bandwidth as we move forward. Provisioning for barely what works now seems like a false economy to me.

because you dont live where you currently live, you dont have access the the same services you did. surely that's obvious?

and because living rurally its a tradeoff as its to expensive to get Fibre/VDSL to the remaining part of the country that isnt covered by the UFB rollout

you have options:

Starlink = best speed but has small outages, has routing bugbears, no data cap, expensive

WISP = Slower speed, no outages, higher data cap, may slow down during peak but they tend to not be soo bad

RBI = Average speed, no outages, average data cap, can slow down during peaks

ADSL = constant slower speed, no data cap, and cheap

quickymart:

Maybe an NGA fibre connection would be a better fit instead - it will be costly, but you'd get faster speeds and no data caps.

Yes, it's still available, as long as you're prepared to pay.

Edit: Full Flavour do it: https://fullflavour.nz/rural-broadband/rural-fibre

@myfullflavour

Geektastic:

Jase2985:

 

what do you do that needs the extra speed?

 

Everything. Why would I not want more speed?

There are two of us working from home, I need to upload large image files, there are two computers backed up off site (when we had VDSL one of them to 6 months to back up working overnight!), TV, music, IoT, security system monitoring, CCTV monitoring, house automation etc etc.

apart from the NAS backups everything on that list would fit nicely into 50/20

While 300mb or 1gb fibre is nice, the reality is its not everywhere

quickymart:

 

Yes, it's still available, as long as you're prepared to pay.

 

Edit: Full Flavour do it: https://fullflavour.nz/rural-broadband/rural-fibre

 

@myfullflavour

 

We do it too for business, request a deposit first

I get the impression the OP is asking about residential connection - but thanks Tim, that's good to know.

I'm in North Canterbury - Ohoka.

If you have talked to Amuri.net I assume your address isn't in their new fibre rollout zone for Ohoka/Swannanoa? (included below). I'm in zone and have been scoped, now just waiting for network to be deployed.

I currently use Starlink and that works reasonably well giving 100 Mbps+ and I do over 2 TB per month on it.  However if have ruled that out on principal ;-)

Previously I used a 4G RBI connection (100 MBps + using two external aerials) that was unlimited midnight-5pm and then 250 GB peak. I combined it with a DSL connection that I used to put some of the streaming content over during peak hours.

I still have the DSL as a backup for the Starlink, once get fibre will probably keep Starlink as backup.

What colour means what? That thing looks like a massive quilt but it's not colour coded.

The colours have no meaning and are just used to be able to differentiate neighbouring sections. If a section has had a colour applied to it then it is in the roll-out zone.

The cost per connection must be quite a bit higher in a rural area like this than in an urban area. This is being been done as part of a $47 million dollar rural broadband initiative from the COVID-19 recovery fund:

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/homes-businesses-benefit-upgrade-rural-broadband

zenourn:

 

The colours have no meaning and are just used to be able to differentiate neighbouring sections. If a section has had a colour applied to it then it is in the roll-out zone.

 

The cost per connection must be quite a bit higher in a rural area like this than in an urban area. This is being been done as part of a $47 million dollar rural broadband initiative from the COVID-19 recovery fund:

 

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/homes-businesses-benefit-upgrade-rural-broadband

 

 

 

I assume we are not - at least, they did not mention it at all when I spoke to them.

zenourn:

 

I'm in North Canterbury - Ohoka.

 

If you have talked to Amuri.net I assume your address isn't in their new fibre rollout zone for Ohoka/Swannanoa? (included below). I'm in zone and have been scoped, now just waiting for network to be deployed.

 

I currently use Starlink and that works reasonably well giving 100 Mbps+ and I do over 2 TB per month on it.  However if have ruled that out on principal ;-)

 

Previously I used a 4G RBI connection (100 MBps + using two external aerials) that was unlimited midnight-5pm and then 250 GB peak. I combined it with a DSL connection that I used to put some of the streaming content over during peak hours.

I still have the DSL as a backup for the Starlink, once get fibre will probably keep Starlink as backup.

 

 

 

 

Can you link to that map? I can't work out where we are at that scale.

That is actually their source image - open it in a new tab and zoom in.

Linked to from https://www.amuri.net/build.html under the third item.

There is also a map at https://www.amuri.net/fibre but that is much less readable.