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| Thread ID: 139413 | 2015-04-28 10:01:00 | internet has slowed down to a crawl(evenings) | notechyet (4479) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1399509 | 2015-04-29 11:57:00 | Haven't had any slowdowns yet, Xnet VDSL unlimited just works fine. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1399510 | 2015-04-29 21:20:00 | No speed reduction here either yet, ADSL2 only as no alternative of any kind in this village. Snap ISP | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1399511 | 2015-04-29 23:36:00 | No slow downs on our fibre here at work, in fact we've increased in speed. :D Now on 200/200 plan! And yes I do use it at night a lot since I seem to be here more than I am at home. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1399512 | 2015-04-29 23:45:00 | No speed reduction here either yet, ADSL2 only as no alternative of any kind in this village . Snap ISP And there's the reason, right there . Congestion occurs where lots of people are trying to use the same service . Because you live in the wopwops :D, there is little or no contention for the service . . . . Your DSLAM is probably one of the lighter loaded ones around the country, whereas mine is probably just about at full capacity . Maybe it's time for me to think about moving out of Auckland . |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1399513 | 2015-04-29 23:52:00 | It doesn't take a whole lot to load up a Conklin. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1399514 | 2015-04-29 23:57:00 | It doesn't take a whole lot to load up a Conklin. Very true - but Conklin speeds are pretty crap anyway. Thank goodness their numbers around the country are falling (not fast enough though)... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1399515 | 2015-04-30 00:19:00 | It's possible to get 8 Mbps out of a conklin.... if you are the only one using it and it has the maximum backhaul connections :devil :p In any case a conklin is a cheap solution to get better than dial-up service to remote locations and admittedly not up to modern broadband standards. Replacing them is not very economic in a lot of cases so who knows when they'll invest the money. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1399516 | 2015-04-30 00:52:00 | It's possible to get 8 Mbps out of a conklin.... if you are the only one using it and it has the maximum backhaul connections :devil :p In any case a conklin is a cheap solution to get better than dial-up service to remote locations and admittedly not up to modern broadband standards. Replacing them is not very economic in a lot of cases so who knows when they'll invest the money. I suspect they will continue to fade away as UFB is rolled out - but it will be a few years yet... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1399517 | 2015-04-30 06:36:00 | I support the call for all ISP's to abolish unlimited data plans :2cents: Why? What they should do is prioritise the other plans over the unlimited ones, if there actually is a bandwidth issue. I never had much of a problem with Go Large or Big Time in that respect. A couple of times it annoyed me, but overall I was happier with an unlimited cap than having top speed all the time. That said, I'm currently on Telecom VDSL with a cap, and have yet to notice any download speed issues. Or maybe I'm just not downloading at the right (wrong?) time... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1399518 | 2015-04-30 12:26:00 | From what I'm seeing, this isn't an issue caused by ISPs, but rather by the backhaul. This is affecting basically anything going over Chorus kit. ISP's can't "prioritize" this out. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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