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Thread ID: 137985	2014-09-19 03:17:00	ADSL2+ and VDSL	mzee (3324)	Press F1

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1384285	2014-09-19 03:17:00	I have the opportunity of getting my ADSL2 changed to VDSL for the same price. There is one drawback and that is Chorus has to do the swap and could take forever to do it, also could be off line for some time which would be inconvenient to say the least! The ADSL is very reliable, the VDSL may not be. My question is, how much difference will it make on overseas servers? The local speed of my ADSL is a steady 12.6 Mbps. On places in Europe, USA and China it drops to 2.8 Mbps. My guess is that the VDSL will only be faster locally. Am I right?	mzee (3324)
1384286	2014-09-19 03:30:00	If it's slower downstream than your connection speed now it won't get any quicker on VDSL. A lot of overseas sites do much better than the ones you mention though. The most noticeable difference with VDSL is the upstream speed which is 10Mbps and makes things like skype video calls or uploading pictures etc work much faster. Downstream it tends to be approx 50% faster than ADSL2+ which is nice but not that big of a deal. Mine went from 16/0.9 Mbps to about 25/9.8 Mbps. It also seems to work a lot better if multiple people are using the net at once. My net was down for about 24 hours and that's a bad one, generally it's down for an hour or two while they swap it over and do the wiring.	dugimodo (138)
1384287	2014-09-19 03:51:00	IMO you'd be mad not to, even thought it's unlikely to improve international traffic much.	wratterus (105)
1384288	2014-09-19 04:03:00	IMO you'd be mad not to, even thought it's unlikely to improve international traffic much. +1 The change to VDSL made a significant improvement for me.	CliveM (6007)
1384289	2014-09-19 08:39:00	Get a better ISP then if you've got shitty international speeds. Easy. VDSL2 is fantastic. I went from 9mbps down on ADSL2+ to 24mbps down and 9mbps up! The "downtime" when they change you is likely 1-4 hours, so it's not really that bad. VDSL2 is more reliable than ADSL2+ because they're supposed to pull you a dedicated jackpoint from the demarc point as of June 2013 (Chorus semi-mandated it). So yeah, more reliable :)	Chilling_Silence (9)
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