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| Thread ID: 103894 | 2009-10-10 00:36:00 | BIG TIME | plod (107) | Press F1 |
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| 818775 | 2009-10-11 00:32:00 | Plod, I just moved house from a cabled area in CHCH to a non cabled area, was on the 80 gig 10MB cable (actually got 10MB speeds ANY time of the day). The drop in performance is noticeable being 2K from exchange now on DSL, and thats FS/FS. Its just less reliable period. Your talking about going to Big Time, with woeful pings and heavily data shaped during peak times, be prepared for the down side! |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 818776 | 2009-10-11 01:13:00 | Battleneter2, are you ON BigTime yourself? It's also kind of different comparing ADSL with Cable, especially in differing areas. The fact that Cable is not available in your area in Chch must mean you're not in a highly suburban area, yes? So naturally being a way from the exchange you're not going to get the best in performance. Is your line actually sync'ing with the exchange at ADSL2+, or is it just an ADSL exchange? It just sounds a bit like apples vs oranges... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 818777 | 2009-10-11 03:04:00 | I just switched from Go Large, apart from the faster upstream speed I can't see much difference | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 818778 | 2009-10-11 03:09:00 | I'm thinking of getting Big Time some time soon - is there somewhere I can look to see what the exchange closest to my house is, and how far away it is? Telecom's website is no help - it just says 'Very Likely' can get ADSL2+ - no mention of where the exchange is. |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 818779 | 2009-10-11 03:09:00 | Was Go Large limited to 2MB down? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 818780 | 2009-10-11 03:16:00 | jwil1, can I ask a favor? Mind trying speedtest.net and letting me know what speeds you're now getting, then comparing that to downloading the following random file I just generated? www.dotalan.co.nz:85 I've got that on a non-standard port, will be interesting to see if it gets "flagged" as P2P, though its under port 1000... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 818781 | 2009-10-11 03:21:00 | I'm thinking of getting Big Time some time soon - is there somewhere I can look to see what the exchange closest to my house is, and how far away it is? Telecom's website is no help - it just says 'Very Likely' can get ADSL2+ - no mention of where the exchange is. Yep in post 10 it tells you where to look link here too (www.telecomwholesale.co.nz) |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 818782 | 2009-10-11 03:47:00 | jwil1, can I ask a favor? Mind trying speedtest.net and letting me know what speeds you're now getting, then comparing that to downloading the following random file I just generated? www.dotalan.co.nz:85 I've got that on a non-standard port, will be interesting to see if it gets "flagged" as P2P, though its under port 1000... We're on Telstra cable ATM (but the new house we're moving to doesn't have cable, hence why big time is an option :() www.speedtest.net 3.8 / 8 = 0.475 MB/s Got that file at about 220-280kb/sec in Firefox. |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 818783 | 2009-10-11 04:16:00 | We're on Telstra cable ATM (but the new house we're moving to doesn't have cable, hence why big time is an option :() www.speedtest.net 3.8 / 8 = 0.475 MB/s Got that file at about 220-280kb/sec in Firefox. 400-500 KB/sec on safari. telstra cable www.speedtest.net (http://www.speedtest.net) |
plod (107) | ||
| 818784 | 2009-10-11 04:23:00 | Was Go Large limited to 2MB down? Nope, FS/128k |
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