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| Thread ID: 142908 | 2016-10-06 17:58:00 | Rural Wireless Broadband | notechyet (4479) | Press F1 |
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| 1426980 | 2016-10-06 17:58:00 | We have just been call by Spark as they are keen to sell WB. ATM we are on copperline and connection speeds are not great though you can watch Lightbox and other media content. Slow down in the evenings is sometimes a problem. Has anyone of you changed over? Happy with it? Any slowing at peak times? If we would decide to go with it, is their modem worth the 1 year contract? Is there any option of testing the reception at our address? Thanks |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 1426981 | 2016-10-07 09:29:00 | I've recently changed to Wireless Broadband with Spark, but the urban version. | rumpty (2863) | ||
| 1426982 | 2016-10-08 02:30:00 | I've recently changed to Wireless Broadband with Spark, but the urban version. Is the urban version over the cellphone network and the other over the 700mhz? I'm just not techy enough:blush: |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 1426983 | 2016-10-08 04:43:00 | Spark's rural and urban Wireless Broadband are both using the 4G network. Urban uses 1800Mhz, and rural uses 700Mhz because it provides better coverage out in the country. | rumpty (2863) | ||
| 1426984 | 2016-10-09 20:31:00 | Hello Rumpty I have just been offered Wireless Broadband with Spark, in urban Hawke's Bay. The nearest underground fibre is just a block away. Would you please share your practical experience of this system. A drawback could be 'now power, no phone'. Thanks. |
PeterE (6851) | ||
| 1426985 | 2016-10-09 20:54:00 | Sorry, I meant to say "no power, no phone" | PeterE (6851) | ||
| 1426986 | 2016-10-09 22:39:00 | You could always invest in a small UPS to power the router if it's important to you to have a phone in a power outage. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1426987 | 2016-10-10 03:30:00 | You could always invest in a small UPS to power the router if it's important to you to have a phone in a power outage. Thanks, I will look into that. |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 1426988 | 2016-10-10 03:44:00 | Hello Rumpty I have just been offered Wireless Broadband with Spark, in urban Hawke's Bay. The nearest underground fibre is just a block away. Would you please share your practical experience of this system. A drawback could be 'now power, no phone'. Thanks. Spark are using the LTE network to bypass the Chorus network and save money. (and that saved money goes into Spark's pocket, not yours.) |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 1426989 | 2016-10-10 04:37:00 | Hello Rumpty I have just been offered Wireless Broadband with Spark, in urban Hawke's Bay. The nearest underground fibre is just a block away. Would you please share your practical experience of this system. A drawback could be 'now power, no phone'. Thanks. So far it is very good. It's been perfectly reliable, and I am still in the habit of turning the router off at bedtime! It boots, and the phones are ready to go again about 30secs after switch on in the morning. My three corded phones work 100% off the phone port on the router. Speed up and down is much better than my ADSL2. Right now (Monday 5.15pm) d/l is 29Mbps and u/l is 15Mbps on speedtest.net. I have seen higher d/l speed at other times, 50 - 60Mbps. I get a good signal from the nearest 4G mast, maybe half a Km away, using the router's built in aerials, of course. I understand that 4G uses a form of diversity reception, hence the two aerials. There are four interesting parameters that the router keeps and can be accessed on one of its pages, to check your reception quality. So that's it. I am very satisfied so far. |
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