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Thread ID: 112429 2010-09-06 02:03:00 "Telecom will guarantee speeds on VDSL2 service" johcar (6283) PC World Chat
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1135051 2010-09-06 02:03:00 Here (computerworld.co.nz).


...the services are likely to appeal primarily to business customers

I read that to mean "expensive"...


users must be located within 900 metres of an exchange or roadside cabinet to receive the service = the catch...
johcar (6283)
1135052 2010-09-06 02:12:00 "Oh, not that cabinet" = another catch. R2x1 (4628)
1135053 2010-09-06 02:21:00 900m. I'd guarantee a lot if it was within 900m too. wratterus (105)
1135054 2010-09-06 02:22:00 Im about 200 nedkelly (9059)
1135055 2010-09-06 02:57:00 Im about 200

Ah, but how deep are your pockets?
johcar (6283)
1135056 2010-09-06 03:11:00 Rendering useless to everyone unless you have your own private exchange The Error Guy (14052)
1135057 2010-09-06 07:31:00 Rendering useless to everyone unless you have your own private exchange

Err... based on the number of cabinets which have been/are being put in, there will be quite a lot of people within the range.
somebody (208)
1135058 2010-09-06 21:04:00 3500 in fact, which covers more of NZ homes and businesses than the Govt FTTH project.

It doesn't really mean that much, them putting you back to ADSL2+, but is a nice gesture I suppose?
Chilling_Silence (9)
1135059 2010-09-06 22:01:00 And I bet it comes with a piffling 10GB cap too. Woo-freakin-hoo.
Now I can use up my cap in 5 minutes instead of 20. Yay
/sarcasm
autechre (266)
1135060 2010-09-06 22:12:00 All that means nothing really, as per the article
which has theoretical speeds of more than 40Mbit/s.

Now lets be honest here -- even on the plans people have now, and going by the speed tests often posted, how many people actually obtain the full speed they currently have -- Next to zilch I bet.

I had a telstra service guy here a few years back checking out the speed, he logged into some place within Telstra and downloaded some file, a direct tunnel he said and I got the 10Mbps.

Edited: Heres a classic example, a speed test 9 MB download from Aussie --
Broadband Speed Test Results

Test run on 07/09/2010 @ 07:18 AM

Mirror: Optus
Data: 9 MB
Test Time: 7.94 secs

Your line speed is 9.52 Mbps (9520 kbps).
Your download speed is 1.16 MB/s (1190 KB/s). Wish I had that all the time - 9MB in just under 8 seconds.

Any one interested heres the test site (http://www.ozspeedtest.com/)
wainuitech (129)
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