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| Thread ID: 142155 | 2016-05-06 10:54:00 | Fibre installation questions (not technical) | DeSade (984) | PC World Chat |
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| 1420187 | 2016-05-06 10:54:00 | Guys They are installing Fibre in my area (about time...) but I may have a problem. I live up a Lane. Now I have no idea if this is considered a private lane and I don't know how to find out. Are all lanes considered private or is it basically just another small street? If it is needed who is responsible for getting permission from everyone up this lane? How can I find out if the permission is even needed Why is this so damn hard........ Any and all advice gratefully received. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1420188 | 2016-05-06 20:52:00 | The rules on shared drives etc have been changed, they don't make you get permission now. www.chorus.co.nz www.spark.co.nz |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1420189 | 2016-05-06 22:21:00 | We had fibre installed last year, down a driveway shared by two others. At that time once agreement had been reached by residents to have fibre installed, the rest was easy. Northpower was our installer and they took care of everything. The fibre was drilled underground which was an amazing process in itself. Your installer is probably someone else, but the Northpower website has a good video explanation of the whole process. The only hitch we struck was with our telephone connection and I believe Chorus inaction and poor communication from them was behind this. They insist they will talk only with your ISP. A very pointed communication from me on the Chorus Facebook page soon got some action, and now we are very happy with the whole thing. Our installation is in a small office area, and at night I don't even have to turn the light on as there are so many green lights on the equipment! Talk to your fibre installing company, they will be sending someone to have a look at your situation anyway. Go for it! |
Richard (739) | ||
| 1420190 | 2016-05-07 02:46:00 | The only problem with fibre is that the ISP does not send or receive anywhere near the speed the fibre is capable of so it seems that there may not be much of an advantage to going to fibre. | Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1420191 | 2016-05-07 18:31:00 | The only problem with fibre is that the ISP does not send or receive anywhere near the speed the fibre is capable of so it seems that there may not be much of an advantage to going to fibre. Huh? you get what you pay for with fibre. If you pay for 100mbit that's what speedtest will show and you will get that at any time of the day. Unlike adsl / vdsl which can be up and down depending on peak time traffic |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 1420192 | 2016-05-07 20:45:00 | Huh? you get what you pay for with fibre . If you pay for 100mbit that's what speedtest will show and you will get that at any time of the day . Unlike adsl / vdsl which can be up and down depending on peak time traffic You MAY be able to get what you pay for if you cable everywhere in the house you wish to use your computer, or buy expensive wireless adapters if you wish to be wireless . However, the average laptop isn’t capable of more than 50Mbps (some a lot less) downstream on Wireless so that doesn’t help . Personally, I haven’t noticed a blind bit of difference between my new fibre and my old ADSL . I certainly couldn’t justify paying anything for the changeover . |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1420193 | 2016-05-07 21:41:00 | You MAY be able to get what you pay for if you cable everywhere in the house you wish to use your computer, or buy expensive wireless adapters if you wish to be wireless. However, the average laptop isn’t capable of more than 50Mbps (some a lot less) downstream on Wireless so that doesn’t help. Personally, I haven’t noticed a blind bit of difference between my new fibre and my old ADSL. I certainly couldn’t justify paying anything for the changeover. Our last house was cabled everywhere and when we switched to fibre there wasn't any speed increase over ADSL at all, however there wasn't a decrease when we had multiple machines running like there had been with ADSL |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1420194 | 2016-05-07 22:37:00 | If you aint getting 100mbps with UFB, it's your ISP. I've never seen a customer unable to get 100mbps on a 100/20 plan! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1420195 | 2016-05-07 23:23:00 | Here's mine Doubled up somehow |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1420196 | 2016-05-08 01:08:00 | The UFB is a bit of a "have" as well. If you read the small print, usually hidden deep in the sites, a lot also depends on where the data is coming from. If the location is slow and cant pump out anymore than 10Mbps then thats all you'll get. If you are downloading something at 20Mbps and you have a 100Mbps plan then you wont see any difference at all. |
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