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| Thread ID: 127120 | 2012-10-05 00:05:00 | Fibre - Making the switch | The Error Guy (14052) | Press F1 |
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| 1305281 | 2012-10-05 00:05:00 | Bit of an interesting discussion amongst the powers that be and the peasants at the moment. Our household is one of the lucky ones to get fibre, that and Orcon's rather decent plan of 30 GB + Free national calling and whatnot had shaken me into gear to ditch the $47 = useage for the land line and $50 for the broadband in favour of their $75 a month package. One concern raised was that in given the light of the CHCH Earthquakes in the event of an earthquake in wellington would the phone line still work. I would have thought the fibre would be just as susceptible to failure as copper and we can run our equipment off the generator once the Fibre backup batteries die so no problemo? Personally I doubt you would want a phone in the event of a major quake. I don't know who or why you would want to call anyone. I'd be more concerned about surviving than informing aunty jill you're ok. You can do that once everything is cleaned up and the phones aren't needed for emergency contacts. Just wondering what your thoughts would be on this. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1305282 | 2012-10-05 00:20:00 | Communication in an emergency situation is the greatest survival tool you can have, I'd want the router fed off a UPS or something if it was me. If the gear has built in batteries then not much of a concern though, depending on the run time of course. Fibre is a little more robust than copper, only physical damage or cuts to the fibre will interrupt service much the same as copper, but water will not cause any contacts or short circuits, there is no danger of interference from anything sharing the cable, and it is surprisingly strong (not so much the fibre but the cable it's contained in). On the other hand it can't be bent sharply, light doesn't much go for turning corners. So it might fare worse than copper if the ground moves significantly. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1305283 | 2012-10-05 00:49:00 | Yeah I'm with dugimodo, my DSL Router 24-port switch, Wireless AP, ATA adapter and cordless phone all runs off my UPS. The other things like my server and HDD I don't care so much about. Get a UPS, even a cheap one for $100 will last quite a while if you only have "the essentials" plugged into it :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1305284 | 2012-10-05 01:37:00 | Ok, I'll have to go dig out our "UPS", not really a UPS but we have a bank of 20Ah 12V batteries that were part of a solar/wind setup for a milking shed (bought em 2nd hand after installing a more powerful pump after the sheds got mains power) One of those should power comms for a few days, I'm guessing the total draw would be some 24v at 1A probably 500mA average peak so you'd get a good week per battery if not more. One of them can run my laptop for 17+ hrs on high performance (never actually ran out after 17 hrs). Don't have the panels though which sucks, nor do we have the turbine. In addition to the water tanks I'm starting to feel like a doomsday prepper :p I'll keep that all in mind. Thanks guys! |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1305285 | 2012-10-05 02:37:00 | it would be nice if they had some better data plans, congratulations you internet is now 7000x faster... but unfortunately you can only use it to download a .jpg | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1305286 | 2012-10-05 02:42:00 | $99 for unlimited fibre? http://www.orcon.net.nz/ Must be a large .jpg Slanky :D |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1305287 | 2012-10-05 02:50:00 | ay don't come in here with all your research and try to prove me wrong. that is pretty sweet actually. kind of annoying how they all include land line, a service i rarely use and fiber inst available where i live currently *shakes fist* | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1305288 | 2012-10-05 03:24:00 | It's not a landline, it's VOIP so no charge if no use! If you do use it, added bonus since national calls are free :) | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1305289 | 2012-10-05 03:29:00 | yeah but if they had a plan without it, it may be cheaper. Thats just the inner perfectionist combining with the outer cheap mingling together | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1305290 | 2012-10-05 04:02:00 | True that, still in NZ $99 for 50/30 mbps unlimited boradband is an absolute steal. I'll be grabbing that for our flat at uni next year. Set up some good network gear and split the xost down. One floor of apartments is 9 people. $12 per person isn't bad. If I can invest in some really nice network gear I could even get the the floors above and below on. Dunno what orcon would say about that though. 27 uni students would create a large sum of traffic I would immagine. Assuming each used 50GB that's 1350 GB per month. Yikes | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
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