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| Thread ID: 68518 | 2006-05-02 01:31:00 | Telecom denying the truth | Hitech (9024) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 451250 | 2006-05-02 01:31:00 | What a joke Telecom say they are mystified as to why the broadband speeds are slow im sure they know full well as to why. Heres a link of the telecom denial. www.telstraclear.co.nz |
Hitech (9024) | ||
| 451251 | 2006-05-02 01:42:00 | Yeah they know why, (heard about that on the radio earlier on this morning) | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
| 451252 | 2006-05-02 02:16:00 | You know - instead of worrying about speeds etc, I'd be much happier to see broadband available to the whole of NZ. The wireless efforts for rural people are intermittant (unreliable) and expensive so far. Trying to get a farmer friend onto the net, so I checked whether broadband is available. No. This despite the fact he is only 15km outside Invercargill. So personally I'd rather see Telecom (none of the other companies are doing anything) put it's efforts into making wired broadband available everywhere. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 451253 | 2006-05-02 02:59:00 | This is true Winston. Telecom claim 90% of NZ are able to get broadband. What a joke, I seriously doubt that. Even in cities if you are more than 5Km from an exchange you can't. Even where I used to live - theres a dip in the orad near the radio masts - no-one in that dip can get it either. But it needs both. Not much point in the rural people getting broadband if it then runs at dial up speeds for them. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 451254 | 2006-05-02 03:20:00 | Public Affairs Manager John Goulter says Telecom has mainly had positive feedback since increasing speeds to two-kilobits per second. :lol: so true | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 451255 | 2006-05-02 04:19:00 | :lol: so true :) Mind you the typical newspaper journalist/writer/editor wouldn't know the difference between a kilobit and a kilometre. In the Dominion Post, they have been repeatedly, by different people, quoting petrol prices in the form, $1.70.90. They all need to go back to primary school to learn how to write a simple decimal number. Anyway, we now have the actual speed people are getting, straight from the horses mouth ! |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 451256 | 2006-05-02 04:50:00 | You know - instead of worrying about speeds etc, I'd be much happier to see broadband available to the whole of NZ. The wireless efforts for rural people are intermittant (unreliable) and expensive so far. Trying to get a farmer friend onto the net, so I checked whether broadband is available. No. This despite the fact he is only 15km outside Invercargill. So personally I'd rather see Telecom (none of the other companies are doing anything) put it's efforts into making wired broadband available everywhere. Asking for subsidies Winnie, tut tut! The net can be more than usefull to rural folk, or anyone with a home based or compartively isolated workplace for that matter. The real solution for rural communities is fibre, not copper, which means laying or slinging new lines up. Of course there is Project Probe (or whatever), but that doesn't seem to have the reach or has had the impact promised. I've heard of communities have got togther with local authorities and businesses to very successfully get their own networks together which are patched in to the net at the local town, although I haven't heard of this happening in NZ to any extent (Palmy North for eg, but I don't think it's reached or intended any rural folk yet)(whats the Fomterra network run on?). |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 451257 | 2006-05-02 05:29:00 | I wonder if both Telecom and the complainers (;)) are both right . Telecom could well be supplying the new improved bitrate between the exchange and the consumer . What the customer sees as speed is more controlled by the number packets per second than by the bit rate within the packets . If you are getting fewer packets even though each packet is sent faster, that will give you a lower average bitrate . (Your CPU might run at 4GHz, but it doesn't make you type any faster . ) Perhaps the routers in the Internet are the limiting factor, rather than the bit rate in the last link . Just a thought . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 451258 | 2006-05-02 06:02:00 | Well I'm pretty ignorant as to the supply of bitrates and broadband between telecom and the ISPs and what I write next will probably prove that . :dogeye: However, what I do know from my dial-up experience with my ISP, is that everytime my ISP does a promotion to get more people on Broadband etc, my dial-up speed and use of the internet gets slower to almost non-existant! afaik my ISP does not have the capacity to provide for new broadband customers, and in the instances in which it does, is done so at the expense of dial-up customers . :( I pay for the service [and the quality of that service], which they offered a . 3years ago . If I was just starting out now, and what I get now is an example of what my money was paying for, I would tell them to #$%@& it . Regardless of how little Telecom is giving the ISP's, the ISP's have NO right to keep increasing their client number when they know it will be at the expense of their current customers . And I'm sick of them bleating on about Telecom . ISP's are misleading in their promotions . :groan: |
MMM (5660) | ||
| 451259 | 2006-05-02 06:28:00 | MMM, I think you will find it's more Telecoms capacity and/or speed/for want of of reaction that is the issue rather than the ISPs | Murray P (44) | ||
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