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| Thread ID: 138783 | 2015-01-23 03:57:00 | Has ADSL2 reached Birkenhead yet? | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 1392654 | 2015-01-23 03:57:00 | Hi Team I've been watching the snail-like progress of ADSL2 in my neck of the woods but can't find the map I used to check progress. My area has been stubbornly stuck with ADSL1 but the only map I can find appears to show full coverage by ADSL2 over the whole of Auckland, however that looks a little optimistic to me. Is there a reliable progress map available yet, and if so, can anybody provide the URL please? Cheers Billy 8-{) :confused: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1392655 | 2015-01-23 04:06:00 | are you sure that's right billy,Birkenhead has had adsl2 for years as far as I know. Peter |
Peter Coleman (597) | ||
| 1392656 | 2015-01-23 04:14:00 | are you sure that's right billy, Birkenhead has had adsl2 for years as far as I know. Peter Nope, broad areas of Birkenhead were listed as having coverage, and the map had evolved over time to show progress, but my area which is a couple of km from the Exchange had remained stubbornly listed as ADSL1 and I've not noted any speed increase. I'm hopeful that it has finally arrived, but I can't find the old map. Maybe I'll get lucky this time if the map that I have found is not telling porkies Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1392657 | 2015-01-23 04:38:00 | Is this what you want www.chorus.co.nz You're in the same boat as many - planned high speed within the next 3 years. |
coldot (6847) | ||
| 1392658 | 2015-01-23 05:03:00 | Unfortunately your address says: UFB fibre up to 200 Mbps between Jul-2017 and Jun-2018 Bummer, you're stuck with ADSL1 until then... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1392659 | 2015-01-23 07:04:00 | An unfortunate side effect of UFB is nobody is investing more than they have to on the copper network especially in areas where fibre is planned. All of which means if ADSL2+ hasn't reached you yet and fibre is planned the chances aren't great it ever will. So what Chill said basically. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1392660 | 2015-01-23 09:35:00 | B-U-G-G-E-R-!!! And I'm well within range of the local exchange too. There's also an upgraded cabinet just around the corner from me as well, at least I assume it is an upgrade, because some months back there was a Telecom bloke sitting there working on it for a few days, and he wouldn't have been there that long for a repair. I got all excited too! I think I'll contact Spark and discuss their inferior service level. Cheers Billy 8-{) :( |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1392661 | 2015-01-23 23:53:00 | It's nothing to do with Spark, they don't own the network and haven't for a few years. Your gripe is with Chorus. Just be grateful you're getting UFB, there are a lot of people out there in a worse situation than you. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1392662 | 2015-01-24 09:13:00 | It's nothing to do with Spark, they don't own the network and haven't for a few years. Your gripe is with Chorus. Just be grateful you're getting UFB, there are a lot of people out there in a worse situation than you. I'm not grateful for UFB, I don't want it, I don't need that speed, and I don't want the concomitant increase in costs. I can't think of a worse situation than ASDSL1, except perhaps for those users who live in remote areas. When living close to an exchange, and only ten minutes from downtown Auckland, I would expect that Chorus could have managed to service that area at least! I know all about worse situations too, I have a friend in the backblocks of the Waikato who had exellent internet, then Telecom closed down the local repeater and now he is severely limited in speed and download capability. If anybody sends him an email with an attachment, he has to drive to a friend's house in the nearest township over an hours driving (return) as the connection will time out before the download is completed. Repeated calls to his service provider have failed to produce any improvement. Cheers Billy 8-{) :annoyed: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1392663 | 2015-01-24 09:57:00 | Trust me, there are plenty of rural customers on either an extremely congested slow ADSL1 with Wireless RBI if you're lucky (very expensive per GB). With nothing better to look foward to in the pipe line. If Chorus are installing UFB in your area, from a business perspective what would the case be for installing inferior service (ADSL2/VDSL) at somewhere around the 100-300k mark? And yes, your friend wont have any luck with ADSL either, once again, what is the business case? |
Alex B (15479) | ||
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