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| Thread ID: 26252 | 2002-10-23 01:57:00 | NZ Internet speed so slow + expensive | mashimaro (2168) | Press F1 |
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| 91943 | 2002-10-23 01:57:00 | My friend in Hong Kong is getting 10Mbps for NZ$50 a month unlimited download and can run FTP server + File sharing as well ... :D He can download just over 1MB per second .. that's pretty good... Imagine 5 secs for a MP3 song I know every country is different with their ISP speed, setup, cost...etc. But we're talking about 12.8K Jetstart with 5GB cap here guys .. not to mention the cost... |
mashimaro (2168) | ||
| 91944 | 2002-10-23 01:58:00 | Sorry .. It's a bit OT .. forgot to memtion | mashimaro (2168) | ||
| 91945 | 2002-10-23 02:13:00 | Hong Kong has a population of 6.97 million on a land area of 1097 sq km. New Zealand has a population of 3.96 million and a land area of 268 000 sq km. Hong Kong is close to a major continent, and has many fibre optic cables coming through it. NZ is at the (far) end of a few cables. "Economies of scale". Even Auckland will have many many fewer people per km of wiring than Hong Kong. It all costs money. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 91946 | 2002-10-23 08:36:00 | Good point Graham | Baldy (26) | ||
| 91947 | 2002-10-23 09:12:00 | but in HongKong traffic will be national. In NZ it's mostly international. THat's why prices are so high. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 91948 | 2002-10-23 10:55:00 | It is unlimited both national and international :) | mashimaro (2168) | ||
| 91949 | 2002-10-23 19:56:00 | >It is unlimited both national and international yes but what you are allowed and what you use are 2 different thints . . . most traffic will be local . . If not from the same country, then atleast the same island . To compare that to here is almost impossible Even this me connecting to this forum involves dodgy coax cable, local underutilised fibres through CHCH, Telstra switches, more fibre to New Brighton, a submarine fibre from NB beach to Welly that comes up for air in Kikoura, and finally a bit of space in one of many fibres that go from Welly to AK, and then a trip round AKs local network to whereever the hell IDG's servers are . Theres more work in that than throwing a bit of data from one side of a continent to the other with nice easy landbased cables It may be classed "international" data, but I'm connecting to IDG's server which isn't even on the same land mass . Prices-performance reflect this . I'll make that sacrifice in internet connection speed so that i can live somewhere where it is a ½ hour drive to places where i can see no buildings, and a 15 minute drive to Sumner or NewBrighton beaches . |
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| 91950 | 2002-10-23 19:56:00 | Welcome to New Zealand... | SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 91951 | 2002-10-23 21:03:00 | That's why we are so far behind!! bk |
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