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Face it NTA, you are maxed out.
At least they are upfront in what they call the product. In the UK IPS sell 'fibre' products that are simply fibre to the cabinet with decades old copper to the house and massive choking at the cabinet trying to squeeze too many connections in. In some places it is even worse because your copper infrastructure feeds directly from the exchange, which is miles away.
Even on coax you don't get anywhere near the max speeds but at least the end result is like a good VDSL at around 40 down. The upload speeds are pathetic though. Around 6 on a coax to fibre product is very poor.
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Yep. Short of having enough money to get fibre pulled through to the street, that's me done. 4G or 5G won't save me either, because the data rates are ridiculous.
The copper I have is fairly new, but its still not going to handle the noise down that sort of distance. I've heard of guys getting 80+ when the copper run is < 200m
I lost Node Lotto.
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Well, my internet provider sent out an email today to say they were stopping providing service from the 4 September. Which isn't great warning. Even worse, I haven't received the email but a friend let me know about. More worse, I just paid for next month so I doubt I'll ever see that money again.
What was crazy was that I signed up with a new provider at 4:34pm this afternoon and when I got home at about 5:15 it was all up and running. The only downside is the company is called Aussie Broadband. Ugh.
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@nepia said in The Interweb:
Well, my internet provider sent out an email today to say they were stopping providing service from the 4 September. Which isn't great warning. Even worse, I haven't received the email but a friend let me know about. More worse, I just paid for next month so I doubt I'll ever see that money again.
What was crazy was that I signed up with a new provider at 4:34pm this afternoon and when I got home at about 5:15 it was all up and running. The only downside is the company is called Aussie Broadband. Ugh.
I never got any warning when my hosting provider just straight-up disappeared.
And considering I work in IT - of course I had been sensible and regularly (or ever) backed up all the content on my website. Had I fuck. -
@nepia I'm with Aussie Broadband and had you asked for referrals, I would gladly have named them.
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So I have finally got my Fibre connection - with mixed results My Dogmeat The Really Good Stuff connection gives me 7-800 Mbps down and around 400 up but has a very poor range and loads of devices can't see it plus every few days it has a hissy and thinks my password is wrong. In addition half my devices can't even see it. My Dogmeat The Much Less Acceptable (2.4 GHz) gives the expected better range and is way more stable but is painfully slow - like <5Mbps.
So not exactly the unqualified joyous experience I have been hanging out for, for years ....
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@antipodean said in The Interweb:
@nepia I'm with Aussie Broadband and had you asked for referrals, I would gladly have named them.
Oddly enough when I finally got away from the lying pricks at Belong Aussie BB were the company I was going to sign up with but they had a two month wait for a space so I went with Telecube.
Less than 24 hours and ABB have been great, no dropouts and speeds fairly consistent at 47 Mbps down and 15 up ( @dogmeat I can only dream about 100+ in this 3rd world backwater).
I still haven't got the email from Telecube notifying me that my service is ending.
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@dogmeat said in The Interweb:
So I have finally got my Fibre connection - with mixed results My Dogmeat The Really Good Stuff connection gives me 7-800 Mbps down and around 400 up but has a very poor range and loads of devices can't see it plus every few days it has a hissy and thinks my password is wrong. In addition half my devices can't even see it. My Dogmeat The Much Less Acceptable (2.4 GHz) gives the expected better range and is way more stable but is painfully slow - like <5Mbps.
So not exactly the unqualified joyous experience I have been hanging out for, for years ....
Sounds like your problem is a shit WiFi router rather than your fibre connection. If it came with the package they have either skimped on quality or you have a dud.
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@nepia said in The Interweb:
@nzzp Every time I see these speeds I shake my head in bewilderment.
Nice work.
Honestly, I'm boggled as well. It's just incredible.
Fair play to the NZ Govt, they have pumped some coin into this,a nd seem to have a really good product that is worth getting.
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Kiwis to get 20-times NBN speeds for similar price
New Zealanders will soon be getting internet speeds 20 times faster than those enjoyed by most Australians, for just a few dollars more a month.
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@jegga said in The Interweb:
New Zealanders will soon be getting internet speeds 20 times faster than those enjoyed by most Australians, for just a few dollars more a month.
That's infuriating. To put it mildly.
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@antipodean said in The Interweb:
@jegga said in The Interweb:
New Zealanders will soon be getting internet speeds 20 times faster than those enjoyed by most Australians, for just a few dollars more a month.
That's infuriating. To put it mildly.
But completely unsurprising. I've been mentioning the speed gap for a while now.
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@antipodean said in The Interweb:
@jegga said in The Interweb:
New Zealanders will soon be getting internet speeds 20 times faster than those enjoyed by most Australians, for just a few dollars more a month.
That's infuriating. To put it mildly.
You could move back to the first world? The rugby was quite good here until recently as well.
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@snowy said in The Interweb:
@antipodean said in The Interweb:
@jegga said in The Interweb:
New Zealanders will soon be getting internet speeds 20 times faster than those enjoyed by most Australians, for just a few dollars more a month.
That's infuriating. To put it mildly.
You could move back to the first world? The rugby was quite good here until recently as well.
We may have a space program and ultra fast broadband but they have .......... koalas .
