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| Thread ID: 73968 | 2006-11-07 06:14:00 | A thing about the slow broadband | stu161204 (123) | PC World Chat |
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| 497184 | 2006-11-07 06:14:00 | Here (theend.nsbase.com) (US server) | Format: WMV | Time: 1:46 | Size: 4.50 MB Is a item on TV1 news about all these slow broadband problems a lot of us have been having. |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 497185 | 2006-11-07 06:21:00 | Wow. Your line speed is approximately 574.9 Kbps or 70.5 K bytes/sec But that clip downloaded at 124k bytes/sec. I want that server all the time! |
pctek (84) | ||
| 497186 | 2006-11-07 07:13:00 | tvnz.co.nz | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 497187 | 2006-11-07 07:21:00 | 10% get slower speeds aye? I must be in that because I dropped from 2mbps to 1mbps. |
trinsic (6945) | ||
| 497188 | 2006-11-07 08:24:00 | There is still a lot of crap being repeated about the slow down being caused by congestion, even Ernie Newman was likening the situation to building more on ramps onto a crowded motorway, and seemed to have been sucked in the hype. The point is this: the slow down occured immediately with international bandwidth on the Go Large plan the moment the Go Large plan was activated. At this moment of time there were still the same number of internet users in NZ, they didn't all immediately start downloading huge amounts of traffic. The problem is a Telecom botch up with Go Large, little or nothing to do with congestion. One day during last week for a short length of time, the IP range 219.xxx.xxx.xxx was allocated for some reason on Go Large. Immediately, speeds, both national and international went back to around those that had been usual on Adventure plan, in fact somewhat faster. As soon as the IP range flipped back to 125.xxx, then speeds dropped back to dialup. If the available bandwidth was being equally shared among all users then the situation would be much better. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 497189 | 2006-11-07 18:43:00 | Let me add some more to the above: :) Many commentators have implied that the great slow down after the unleashing has been caused by a sudden vast increase in traffic by people taking advantage of their higher speeds, including those on the TV1 clip cited. If this were so then I'd have thought virtually everyone, no matter what plan they were on or what ISP they were with would have experienced a slow down. (No one has yet explained how vast quantities of data can be downloaded internationally if speed is down to essentially dial up) Nearly all the complaints I've seen on forums have been from those on Go Large, and those on that plan have been given their own 125.xxx IP range. What it appears to me is that Telecom have allocated a "micro-bore sized pipe" to push all the 125.xxx traffic through, and the problem is entirely created by Telecoms' actions, it does not appear to be directly a consequence of 'unleashing'. Going back to Ernie Newmans motorway analogy, it would be better described as building new on-ramps to access a one lane country lane with passing places, not a motorway! |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 497190 | 2006-11-07 19:25:00 | me and my mate are both connected to the same exchange, we have both been upgraded to max down speeds, he is closer(lower dB). HE is on the go large plan with xtra I am with orcon max/max zeroshock and guess what? he gets slower than dial up speeds since being put on the plan, and i get 6mb. guess hes just another one of the people you talk about terry |
jesse_jax (9283) | ||
| 497191 | 2006-11-07 20:42:00 | Go Large = "Emperor's New Clothes" (or "Large Gone") | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 497192 | 2006-11-08 02:37:00 | The point is this: the slow down occured immediately with international bandwidth on the Go Large plan the moment the Go Large plan was activated. Don’t forget local traffic is slow as well At this moment of time there were still the same number of internet users in NZ, they didn't all immediately start downloading huge amounts of traffic. The problem is a Telecom botch up with Go Large, little or nothing to do with congestion. One day during last week for a short length of time, the IP range 219.xxx.xxx.xxx was allocated for some reason on Go Large. Immediately, speeds, both national and international went back to around those that had been usual on Adventure plan, in fact somewhat faster. As soon as the IP range flipped back to 125.xxx, then speeds dropped back to dialup. If the available bandwidth was being equally shared among all users then the situation would be much better. Here is a question for you Terry, how do you know this? (I think you may be right as since I have been on 125.xxx (since Monday, 6 November, 2006), my speeds have sucked, but the speeds had been fine on 222.153.xxx.xxx & 222.152.xxx.xxx before then. |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 497193 | 2006-11-08 02:53:00 | me and my mate are both connected to the same exchange, we have both been upgraded to max down speeds, he is closer(lower dB). HE is on the go large plan with xtra I am with orcon max/max zeroshock and guess what? he gets slower than dial up speeds since being put on the plan, and i get 6mb. guess hes just another one of the people you talk about terry The onyl way to test this is if s/he changed to orcon max/max zeroshock to see if s/he gets a boost. You will find its the wiring to their house and not the ISP (as they are both going through the same place). |
trinsic (6945) | ||
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