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| Thread ID: 111847 | 2010-08-14 03:20:00 | Broadband 50x faster | Arnie (6624) | PC World Chat |
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| 1127577 | 2010-08-14 03:20:00 | Any one seen this or have any pricing???? www.stuff.co.nz |
Arnie (6624) | ||
| 1127578 | 2010-08-14 03:46:00 | 50X faster than what? a snail, a analogue modem, DSL1 DSL2? I am 500x faster!! Another quality Stuff story!, but sounds pretty good to help with FTTD. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 1127579 | 2010-08-14 03:55:00 | If this works, I WANT!!!, if its 50x faster than my 2mb/s then thats 100mb/s | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1127580 | 2010-08-14 04:23:00 | The clever device also has a second appeal. For homes that do have fibre-optic cabling, it will act as a backup electricity system. The device will sense when the power has cut and will keep the landline phone running for up to four hours. So.what is it? And in any case, speed is dependant on lots of things - the backhaul for instance - how does it get around all that? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1127581 | 2010-08-14 05:12:00 | As regards the landline phone, many of us have at least one telephone instrument at home that doesn't NEED mains electricity to work. Are they implying that fibre to the house means the phone will be reliant on mains power? That would be a backward step! |
coldot (6847) | ||
| 1127582 | 2010-08-14 05:37:00 | Are they implying that fibre to the house means the phone will be reliant on mains power?It means exactly that - the idea has always been to switch NZ's entire phone infrastructure to VoIP - which requires a power supply. Part of that process includes some kind of battery backup system to keep the phone working when the power goes off - I can't remember where the figure came from, but the number I've heard was around two days. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 1127583 | 2010-08-14 05:55:00 | Why is it that none of these stories ever comment on the fact that you would still only get 10GB of data per month, and with such faster speed you'd potentially waste it in less then an hour. Everyone seems caught up in this big "Lets make everything super fast to be like America" (Which is stupid, the average speed for America is only 7.66MBit - and my ADSL2+ is 16Mbit now after the cabinet upgrade!) And while they are all running about thinking they need fiber optic, they still don't see the truth in that without significantly increased data allowances or lower prices, everything will be just as pathetic or worse, because they will all get throttled back to 64k quicker! |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1127584 | 2010-08-14 06:20:00 | The clever device also has a second appeal . For homes that do have fibre-optic cabling, it will act as a backup electricity system . The device will sense when the power has cut and will keep the landline phone running for up to four hours . So . what is it? And in any case, speed is dependant on lots of things - the backhaul for instance - how does it get around all that? "It's the SDP (service delivery point) that Chorus are rolling out . The Stuff story is exceptionally poorly journalism and it's obvious the author actually knows nothing at all about the product . A photo of the hardware is in this NZ Herald story . nzherald . co . nz/connect/news/article . cfm?c_id=1501833&objectid=10650104"" target="_blank">www . nzherald . co . nz . geekzone . co . nz/forums . asp?forumid=49&topicid=66209&page_no=1#367593" target="_blank">www . geekzone . co . nz The unit has an integrated VDSL splitter - that where any speed increase is going to come from . |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1127585 | 2010-08-14 06:21:00 | Any one seen this or have any pricing???? www.stuff.co.nz Its a really poorly written article. Fairfaxes standards have gone right down. It is just 50x faster within your house, so it does not make the connection any faster between your house and the exchange. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 1127586 | 2010-08-14 06:29:00 | It is just 50x faster within your house, so it does not make the connection any faster between your house and the exchange. Is it though? There's still references in the Herald article about needing a rewire to Cat5 standard to get internal improvement. I wouldn't be surprised if the speed difference between ADSL and VDSL in the exchange link have been mangled by Stuff. |
PaulD (232) | ||
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