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| Thread ID: 134268 | 2013-06-15 21:03:00 | What is Vodafone's broadband service like these days? | wotz (335) | PC World Chat |
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| 1345931 | 2013-06-16 23:46:00 | As an impatient downloader and online gamer, both Telecom and Vodafone ADSL have served me well over the years (have actually worked for both companies too). It's more to do with your individual connection than your ISP tbh. Not just their equipment but your equipment/wiring aswell (many people still refuse to believe quality of internal wiring can have a significant impact on your connection quality). Vodafone usually rate pretty well on the nationwide tests. Here's the latest national report: www.truenet.co.nz |
pablo d (15490) | ||
| 1345932 | 2013-06-17 00:05:00 | Vodafone usually rate pretty well on the nationwide tests. Here's the latest national report: www.truenet.co.nz That's all circumstantial, it just means an ISP is consistently slow, that's all :( Page load times are usually also easy to fudge so that small pages load quickly while actual general throughput for anything else (Like YouTube or general downloads) just blows. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1345933 | 2013-06-17 00:25:00 | This is getting very abstract, but thank you, I do enjoy working at the bowling alley. | pablo d (15490) | ||
| 1345934 | 2013-06-17 01:26:00 | No but you know what I mean. There is *zero* mention of speed on there because most places are just gonna argue "Oh it's not our fault, it's their overloaded exchange". Ask anybody about the speeds on Orcons or Slingshots unlimited plan what they got before on a capped plan vs after on the unlimited, and it's *always* a hell of a lot slower. However there's no mention at all on that website based around "This ISP oversubscribes their international bandwidth a lot less than this ISP, whereas this ISP only ever hits around 90% utilization so you'll always get your ma line speeds". No, instead it simply says "Peak vs offpeak, they're within 85% of each other". That could be either 1200kbps off-peak and 1000kbps peak or it could be 15000 off-peak and 12500 peak. You have no way of knowing, and there's absolutely nothing in there that mentions actual attainable speeds for DSL. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1345935 | 2013-06-17 01:32:00 | Fascinating. Personally I whored about 200GB - 300GB per month from some european server, averaged around 1.2MB/s, up to 1.5MB/s off-peak and down to 1.0MB/s peak, so their international contention must not be *that* bad. |
pablo d (15490) | ||
| 1345936 | 2013-06-17 04:28:00 | Yes, I'd agree that up to 12mbps off-peak isn't bad at all. I was multi-threading http downloads from a european server I have on both connections as a test, got significantly less than you did, but was then able to fire it up on my own home connection (remotely) a few seconds later and attained 25mbps (Ruling out the issue being my european server in France). One of the two was off the same cabinet as me, the other was off the same Exchange the cabinets run back to. Perhaps I just had two "bad eggs" with Vodafone that I tested last month (4-6 weeks ago now)? Perhaps... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1345937 | 2013-06-21 00:46:00 | Steer clear. I've always found Voda horrid to deal with. So much "we're so wonderful" BS before the install which then migrates to "we don't care" after contract signup. Add to this the recent DNS and routing issues I've seen over the past week (Voda's servers have been unable to route to a connection on their network; DNS resolves, but the Voda server will not route forward. Called them, "no there's no problem", provide proof, never hear back). |
Antmannz (6583) | ||
| 1345938 | 2013-06-21 02:42:00 | ^^ I know that feeling all too well, regarding Vodafone :( At my parents place, their speeds on Orcon have picked up a bit the last week or two? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1345939 | 2013-06-21 05:55:00 | Steer clear. I've always found Voda horrid to deal with. So much "we're so wonderful" BS before the install which then migrates to "we don't care" after contract signup. Add to this the recent DNS and routing issues I've seen over the past week (Voda's servers have been unable to route to a connection on their network; DNS resolves, but the Voda server will not route forward. Called them, "no there's no problem", provide proof, never hear back). I have to modify my comments slightly regarding routing (there was still a DNS server issue earlier this week that they would not admit to, however). It seems that the ADSL router installed, a Netgear DGND3700v2, does not support the correct MTU setting for NZ internet, resulting in slower internet speed overall and outright timeouts with some sites. Stoopid Netgear >:\ Anyway, first two sentences regarding Vodafone still stand. |
Antmannz (6583) | ||
| 1345940 | 2013-06-21 06:01:00 | I'm sorry you feel that way mate, as a Vodafone employee I see first hand the effort and resource put in to making sure our customers get world class service. If there's ever a specific issue you need help with feel free to message me the details. | pablo d (15490) | ||
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