I am on Skinny 4G Broadband. Can someone please tell me if I can use it to create an ethernet link so I can plug into my TrueNet[truenet.co.nz] performance monitor.? Do I need to get a USB LAN adapter or can I use the port in the back of my PC
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Haver you tried contacting Truenet to firstly see if they're interested in receiving data from such a connection (they may not be so you'd simply be wasting your data cap) and if they are, what their recommended setup would be?
Yes; I contacted them. They are interested and thought it would be a straightforward process. My concern is I haven't seen the modem flash indicating it is sampling.
What was your setup before you switched to Skinny? Are there any readings from your probe on the Truenet site since you switched?
You run an ethernet cable from the modem to the 'internet' port of your probe (D-Link).
All your internet connections / devices should be downstream of your probe if possible.
I unplugged my probe. Truenet was saying I was getting 5-7Mb/s, Speedtest.net was saying 25-40 (Yes I know they use different servers)
Separate testing of truenet servers gave average speeds of around 5Mb/s for a 1MB file - 14Mb/s for 5MB file (same server). Truenets 7MB Chch file came in at 17Mb/s while a 30MB file on the same server reported 26Mb/s
Be interesting to see what sort of results you get.
Thanks for your advice. I rang John Butt at TrueNet and got sorted. I turns out they Have been getting my reports, so obviously I don't need a USB-LAN adapter.
My results are pretty much in agreement with yours. I am consistently getting between 5 and 7.5 Mb/s.
I don't know what the Microsoft data means. I think it's only the instantaneous transfer rate between the skinny modem and my computer.
I'm sorry about that. I tried to use the insert image tool but it didn't allow me to browse to my image so I resorted to "drag and drop"
upload them to the forum :)
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