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| Thread ID: 140687 | 2015-11-27 00:15:00 | VDSL Speed increase? | Zippity (58) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1412001 | 2015-12-02 01:47:00 | Speeds have *definitely* increased. I usually get 19mbps with the highest ever being 25mbps. After an outage last night for all the people in my suburb and neighboring suburb, means I'm now getting 33mbps! Friend up the road, almost always syncs at 29mbps, he's now on 53mbps! Brother-in-law, usually on 50-52mbps down and 9mbps up is now getting 69mbps down and 26mbps up!! :O So yeah, something's going on and speeds for VDSL2 are making a HUGE improvement! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1412002 | 2015-12-02 02:08:00 | Keeping a hopeful eye out here - getting 30/10 on a 8B profile currently. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1412003 | 2015-12-02 05:14:00 | Hope it filters down to ADSL2 since that is all we can get | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1412004 | 2015-12-02 19:42:00 | I've noticed it's not everywhere though, and they seem to be doing it like area-by-area. I monitor a bunch of connections, and when this happened the other night it was all that were hanging off cabinets from the one regional exchange. The next suburb over didn't change. Either way, I'm impressed, good job Chorus! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1412005 | 2015-12-03 03:18:00 | Chorus have been progressively changing the bandplan for VDSL2 on capable cabinets from the older 997 to the newer 998 for the last few months. It uses a different sent of frequencies, and removes the 10Mbps upstream 'limit' that was imposed on the old bandplan. The actual effect for most customers is an improvement in total available bandwidth, but how it's balanced (upstream, downstream) depends on a lot of factors - in some cases people are seeing reduced upstream but significantly increased downstream, in others people are seeing both increase. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1412006 | 2015-12-03 07:08:00 | Hope it filters down to ADSL2 since that is all we can get Sorry nope, this is a change specific to VDSL |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1412007 | 2015-12-03 07:59:00 | Yeah getting the same "unexpected" increase, I used to get about 23Mbps now I'm up to 43Mbps.... Might consider holding off on getting fibre for now as this new speed is doing me just nicely for now. | chiefnz (545) | ||
| 1412008 | 2015-12-03 09:45:00 | I understand that fibre is being offered at $10 a month cheaper than VDSL :( | Zippity (58) | ||
| 1412009 | 2015-12-04 03:43:00 | Depends, it costs roughly the same for VDSL and 30/10 at a wholesale level... 100/20 costs a bit more though. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1412010 | 2015-12-04 22:04:00 | The thing that hacks me off is that fibre will cost me the same as what I'm paying now for VDSL but the catch is the VDSL speeds I'm getting now are actually faster from a download perspective given this thread. If I moved to Fibre I'd go down to 30Mbps as opposed to the 43Mbps I'm getting now. Of course I could pay the extra $10 for 100Mbps but I don't have a serious need for that just right now. Another pain in the butt is that I want to get rid of my landline in favour of VoIP but from a pricing perspective there is no real difference... I think it will cost me something stupid like a mere $5 less. The only real options I have is to ditch the Vodafone provided modem for something like a Draytek (or any other model that is not ISP locked) and then subscribe to a separate provider for VoIP. I'm not really keen to spend more money on a modem and that's only because I want something that has at least 4xGB ports, is VDSL/Fibre capable and has dual band wireless (a,b,g,n a and ac). I continue to shop around at this point. |
chiefnz (545) | ||
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