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#72181 22-Nov-2010 13:20

Im courious as to who here has a TrueNet Broadband testing device and what city/towns are covered

I've had the device for about 5 or 6 weeks now and am in Dunedin

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#407638 22-Nov-2010 13:24

I have one, and I am in Wellington...

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#407640 22-Nov-2010 13:25

Ive got one but havent had time to plug it in yet...will try to do so tonight.

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#407651 22-Nov-2010 13:39

Bit worrying they want to put another router between me and the internet router.

Is there any NAT done in the device they supply? What latency does it add? What thruput can it deliver? Lots of cheap routers have 100 meg interfaces but struggle to get 30megabit between them.

Has anyone who has recieved one of these seen any drop in performance or increase in the pingtimes.

How much traffic does it consume with its testing?

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#407654 22-Nov-2010 13:46

I just have in in parallel. The idea is that it would be the first device and know when no Interne traffic is happening, so it would perform the tests only then.

A bit hard not to have any Internet traffic here at home, at any time, with multiple VoIP lines, multiple PCs performing online backups, etc. So I just plug it to one port in my main router, with nothing attached to it. It can perform tests any time it feels like.

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#407655 22-Nov-2010 13:46

I have one here in Napier

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#407662 22-Nov-2010 13:55

richms: Bit worrying they want to put another router between me and the internet router.

Is there any NAT done in the device they supply? What latency does it add? What thruput can it deliver? Lots of cheap routers have 100 meg interfaces but struggle to get 30megabit between them.

Has anyone who has recieved one of these seen any drop in performance or increase in the pingtimes.

How much traffic does it consume with its testing?

Its a D-Link DIR-615, basicly it works like a network cable that has 1 input and 4 outputs, I beleave it can do basic NAT however I dont use that part of it. Here it is acting like a network cable with router in the wan port and IPCop firewall in one of the 4 lan ports.
Havent noticed any changes in ping or DNS lookups ect.
You chose how much data it uses, from memory its anything from 400MB to 5GB over a month depending on what you have it set at.
It's a shame the wireless N on it is disabled, would love to have the speed of the 'N' on the wireless part of my networks

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#407663 22-Nov-2010 13:55

Wont it testing while you are using it invalidate its test results however? Like doing a speedtest when torrenting etc?

It would never test on my connection if it waits for it to be idle. Usually seeding or something, about 10kbit is the quietest the connection gets.

bit puzzled why they only test to wellington, that makes the tests meaningless on ISPs with lousy international in evenings and free offpeak times.

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#407680 22-Nov-2010 14:12

richms: Wont it testing while you are using it invalidate its test results however? Like doing a speedtest when torrenting etc?

It would never test on my connection if it waits for it to be idle. Usually seeding or something, about 10kbit is the quietest the connection gets.

bit puzzled why they only test to wellington, that makes the tests meaningless on ISPs with lousy international in evenings and free offpeak times.

Mine updates even when using internet, like alot of you, my internet is never idle, not with IRC/Web/FTP/ect servers running 24/7, yep it does affect the results but seems here in Dunedin with Snap most results are better than the NZ average

They test all NZ not just Wellington, that or I've moved island with out noticing :P

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#407684 22-Nov-2010 14:17

They say they have a server in wellington. Nothing international that it tests too, and I expect that if they did, that server would start to get the same treatment that speedtest ones do with ISPs data tampering equipment to make them look better.

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#407687 22-Nov-2010 14:19

I have one here in Wellington too. Dont even notice it.

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#407689 22-Nov-2010 14:21

Would be cool if they gave it the ability to push realtime usage stats out to pachube or somewhere else to chart it.

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#407691 22-Nov-2010 14:24

Arr now I'm with you, I kinda miss-read your reply to thinking their test routers were only in Wellington, sorry about that.
They do international ping test though im not sure where to.

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#407692 22-Nov-2010 14:25

We have 1 & in Wellington

Haven't noticed any ping or other issues

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#407693 22-Nov-2010 14:26

As a tester you get access to various graphs that show your connection in relation to the NZ average. Would be good to see some public results though.

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#407815 22-Nov-2010 18:49

I have one, been using it for about 2 weeks now. Based in Auckland.
Have not noticed any difference with it.

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