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@kirwan Yeah, it’s Ethernet. My wifi maxes out at a theoretical 866 Mbps but in practice I can’t get more than about 750. Pays to check regularly too. When I first got fibre I was on a 200 Mbps plan and never thought any more about it. I found out by accident that they had a gigabit plan for $20 a month cheaper. In practice I don’t really notice the difference in performance.
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@nta said in The Interweb:
This guy doesn't notice the difference either
I have a mate here who does this for his parents, he is rapt with it so far
I have my interweb through them, but I am on a pleb plan, so only get 100/20 (unlimited downloads) and phone for $75 p/m
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@jc said in The Interweb:
@kirwan Yeah, it’s Ethernet. My wifi maxes out at a theoretical 866 Mbps but in practice I can’t get more than about 750. Pays to check regularly too. When I first got fibre I was on a 200 Mbps plan and never thought any more about it. I found out by accident that they had a gigabit plan for $20 a month cheaper. In practice I don’t really notice the difference in performance.
I see a difference is downloads from big companies, like OS updates, and of course uploads (one of the main reasons I upgraded).
So much headroom.
And that ethernet dongle is looking more certain, or a dock.
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@dogmeat said in The Interweb:
My street is finally getting fibre this month!! Any suggestions on what to put in place inside house to maximise performance - who to go with?
This may help direct you
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@baron-silas-greenback Was reading about that as a mate in BOP asked me if that was l;egit.
Its a very good way to start a microgrid. There is a copmpany here in Oz called Power Ledger that is doing P2P trading of solar using blockchain. Looks interesting.
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Fark, have just learned we are in a fibre access zone - only just according to the map. Will have to check this out as we are only on VDSL. I hope the interwebs gods are merciful and this is legit... and doesn't require a bunch of extra work.
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@paekakboyz there was a house not far from mine whose pit was completely missed in the deployment of FTTN.
Apparently the original street plans were for them to be facing another direction or something, but an 11th hour change put them on a different street where an emergency pair was brought through to service their phone + ADSL. That's all they've got until NBNCo swing back around this way.
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@dogmeat For inside the house, don’t know what your budget is but I’ve got one of these setups:
They’re not cheap, about $670 for the router and satellite, but the performance is great. Superb coverage, strong signal and no drop off in speed as you add devices.
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@jc said in The Interweb:
@dogmeat For inside the house, don’t know what your budget is but I’ve got one of these setups:
They’re not cheap, about $670 for the router and satellite, but the performance is great. Superb coverage, strong signal and no drop off in speed as you add devices.
Tech porn! That looks nice.
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Very cool.
I'm slumming it with a ceiling-mounted Netgear WNDAP360, hooked up to my Netgear 24-port PoE switch - much better than trying to get power up there or have the wifi unit collecting dust.
All the apple shit in the house goes on the 5GHz while I reserve 2.4GHz for my stuff. It just works out better that way
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@wairau said in The Interweb:
Hi, could some posters, like one in the north island, and one in the south, post internet speed to New York please? What speeds are kiwis getting to the rest of the world? Cheers
One of my works servers is in Chicago, that’s a 180ms ping for me (through a VPN).
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My RSP changed all their 25/5 plans to be 50/20 plans for the same price, so I thought I'd change for nothing, and see what difference it made.
Very little as it turns out. The ping is usually 6-7ms and while the upload has improved, the download has not, effectively. 800m of copper.
What I like about my A/VDSL modem is it can see back up the chain a little to check some of the settings. It can clearly see the throughput limit being set to 55/22 but the copper just won't let it flow. Stiff shit I guess.