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<p>Had to resurrect this thread to wind up Nick about crappy Oz b/band</p>
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<p>Here's the latest player to the NZ market to hopefully give the existing guys a shakeup.</p>
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<p>No caps, 100Mbps down, 50Mbps Up, Priority traffic for HD streaming and gaming, Custom routing for gaming to reduce latency, a Gigabit Router so as soon as Gigabit services are ready for the market they will upgrade you. Can also buy a TV package that provides open access to Netflix and Hulu without needing your own VPN or Dynamic DNS.</p>
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<p>$109 p/m for the gaming package, $99 p/m if you only need 20 Mbps up and no special gaming re-routing.</p>
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<p>Oh, and they are endorsed by the Shat</p>
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<p>Is that a banning offense? oh, how I miss Dutch broadband speed sniff</p>
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<p>How long did it take you to get your interweb put on dK? We're just about to move to a new address and we've been told it could take up to a couple of months to get things sorted. I feel like I've entered NZ in the mid 00s before the govt leant on Telecom.</p> -
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<p>How long did it take you to get your interweb put on dK? We're just about to move to a new address and we've been told it could take up to a couple of months to get things sorted. I feel like I've entered NZ in the mid 00s before the govt leant on Telecom.</p>
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<p> To be fair most of the issue with waiting for connections in NZ in the '00s' was due to infill housing and developers not arranging for infrastructure. Connections were over the existing copper lines but if you had a dead end street in Auckland where every second quarter acre section was subdivided and another house put on that places a massive strain on the existing lines and cabinets that were designed on old planning and with one port for every house in the street plus a couple of extras.</p>
<p>The consumer couldn't understand the delays, but the work involved to connect one more property could have involved cabinet upgrades, capacity upgrades, exchange changes etc etc and in many cases the whole backhaul was in line for a complete upgrade in coming months so it wasn't worth it and better to wait until the fibre to the cabinet was complete. Frustrating for many people but that was the reality and the legacy of the Rod Dean, Teresa Gattung era of non investment in the network to maximise profit, shareholder return and their own bonuses. It was the Govt pushing for returns that helped create the situation until they realised they needed to throw the blame back at Telecom to save votes.</p>
<p>It has taken a lot of work and money to bring things up to needs in most places and now the attempt is to build for what the future requires.</p>
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<p>We will have similar frustration now these new players with great packages have come to a part built fibre market. Lots of people will be watching those ads and getting pissed of that the biggest infrastructure project in NZ can't click it's fingers and provide fibre for everyone instantly.</p> -
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<p>How long did it take you to get your interweb put on dK? We're just about to move to a new address and we've been told it could take up to a couple of months to get things sorted. I feel like I've entered NZ in the mid 00s before the govt leant on Telecom.</p>
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<p>Once I had a permanent address, it took about two weeks to deliver the modem and then schedule a technician to check if the house could be connected. Which we didn't need in the end as a Telstra Techie was in the building and for $50 cash under the table, he connected us. Optus then took another week to flick the switch so we could actually surf the web. So all up about a month from placing the order to getting online.</p> -
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<p> To be fair most of the issue with waiting for connections in NZ in the '00s' was due to infill housing and developers not arranging for infrastructure. Connections were over the existing copper lines but if you had a dead end street in Auckland where every second quarter acre section was subdivided and another house put on that places a massive strain on the existing lines and cabinets that were designed on old planning and with one port for every house in the street plus a couple of extras.</p>
<p>The consumer couldn't understand the delays, but the work involved to connect one more property could have involved cabinet upgrades, capacity upgrades, exchange changes etc etc and in many cases the whole backhaul was in line for a complete upgrade in coming months so it wasn't worth it and better to wait until the fibre to the cabinet was complete. Frustrating for many people but that was the reality and the legacy of the Rod Dean, Teresa Gattung era of non investment in the network to maximise profit, shareholder return and their own bonuses. It was the Govt pushing for returns that helped create the situation until they realised they needed to throw the blame back at Telecom to save votes.</p>
<p>It has taken a lot of work and money to bring things up to needs in most places and now the attempt is to build for what the future requires.</p>
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<p>We will have similar frustration now these new players with great packages have come to a part built fibre market. Lots of people will be watching those ads and getting pissed of that the biggest infrastructure project in NZ can't click it's fingers and provide fibre for everyone instantly.</p>
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<p>Australia is suffering a transitional period as well. Namely major service providers weren't/ aren't upgrading their exchanges while waiting for clear direction on the path the NBN was/ is taking.</p> -
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<p>Once I had a permanent address, it took about two weeks to deliver the modem and then schedule a technician to check if the house could be connected. Which we didn't need in the end as a Telstra Techie was in the building and for $50 cash under the table, he connected us. Optus then took another week to flick the switch so we could actually surf the web. So all up about a month from placing the order to getting online.</p>
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<p>Grrr. Man, that sucks. I guess I'm going to have to buy some sort of wireless dongle for the month or so we'll have to wait. </p> -
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<p> Lots of people will be watching those ads and getting pissed of that the biggest infrastructure project in NZ can't click it's fingers and provide fibre for everyone instantly.</p>
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<p>That's me. Fucks me off no end that every frigging street I go down has signs up "Finished Connecting you to UFB" and Chorus' website still hasn't a date for my street.</p>
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<p>If I walk south East or West UFB is available within 100 metres. But I still get the</p>
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<p>So now the FTTN is being rolled out to another 170,000 residences. Malcolm Turnbull (The Arch fluffybunny of web denial) is lauding speeds of 90mbps at some guy's house, but suspect he's probably relocated his house to sit right on top of the nearest node.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, I'm sitting here in one of Sydney's newest suburbs with this:</p>
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<p>[URL=http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3850767677]<img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/3850767677.png" alt="3850767677.png">[/URL]</p>
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<p>While sitting about 200 metres from the nearest sweet, sweet fibre...</p> -
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<p>So now the FTTN is being rolled out to another 170,000 residences. Malcolm Turnbull (The Arch fluffybunny of web denial) is lauding speeds of 90mbps at some guy's house, but suspect he's probably relocated his house to sit right on top of the nearest node.</p>
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<p>Rubbish. He'd need Fibre to the premise for that speed, along with a fibre compatible router configured correctly. Copper line and an ADSL router connecting to the node couldn't do it.</p> -
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">In the beginning UFB was formless and void.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">The Planning team sharpened their pencils, and extra pages were added to the glossary to handle the new acronyms.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">UFB is all about FTTP, ‘fibre to the premise’.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">The task as Planners was to divide our UFB patches into areas of up to 240 premises so they could be serviced by a fibre splitter cabinet. The splitter takes one port from the exchange equipment and splits it out to 32 end users.</span></span></p>
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<p> <span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">These areas are known as Fibre Flexibility Points, or FFPs, and there are more than 6000 FFPs across the country, nearly half of them in the Auckland region.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">For example, here’s an FFP in Rotorua of 228 premises that looks a bit like a rhinoceros.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><img src="https://intranet.chorus.co.nz/dailyhum/Lists/Photos/default/UFB planning 1.png" alt="UFB%20planning%201.png"></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">The Planners looked at the FFPs they had created, and they were jolly good.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">All the premises in an FFP would need a duct or fibre back to a cabinet that housed the splitters. We pitied the poor chaps who would have to build it, but we went back to our day jobs as our work was done. Or so we thought.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Sometime about the end of year 2 ‘Year 4 Architecture’ was born.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Instead of bringing all the fibres in an FFP back to a central cabinet, we could distribute the splitters out in the neighbourhood. Each FFP area would do away with the cabinet and have up to 6 splitter housings in the ground, called ABFFPs. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Unfortunately for the Planners, it was back to the drawing board as all our FFPs needed to be divided up into smaller areas of 40-46 premises.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">We extract data out of Netmap about where people live, how many people live there, where our existing network is, and how full our ducts are.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">FOND takes all this data and does ‘maths’ with it.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">FOND then produces assorted shapefiles showing lead-ins to each property, how that lead-in gets back to an ABFFP, a feeder cable for each ABFFP from an FFP, and the feeder cable from the FFP back to the exchange.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Here’s that Rotorua FFP divided into 6 ABFFP areas. Everything is colour-coded and the wee numbers show how many premises are fed from each ABFFP.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:'times new roman';"><img src="https://intranet.chorus.co.nz/dailyhum/Lists/Photos/default/UFB planning 2.png" alt="UFB%20planning%202.png"></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Using the data about our existing ducts it can work out where we can re-use them. If we have to lay new ones, it plans routes that minimises how much we have to put in the ground.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">This view shows the fibre distribution network, and the lead-ins to each property.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:'times new roman';"><img src="https://intranet.chorus.co.nz/dailyhum/Lists/Photos/default/UFB planning 3.png" alt="UFB%20planning%203.png"></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, assorted power line companies were being asked if we could share their poles for fibre cable distribution.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">It’s back to the drawing board, again, to get FOND to read data from the lines companies, compare that with where our network and our customers are, and work out the best way of putting it all together. The early attempts were a bit weird, but it’s nearly at a stage where we can use it for the next wave of projects.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">In this map the Blue line is where we could use aerial cable. Orange is for existing ducts and Cyan is where we would have to trench. If we didn’t use aerial, most of the blue line would have to have new ducts laid. The aerial algorithms in the FOND tool are still getting adjusted</span></span></p>
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<p>Thought this may go some way to explain the complexity of doing a fibre rollout. It must be bloody frustrating to be on the wrong side of the boundary of one of these puzzle pieces waiting for your piece to be built but as you can see, there are limitations of numbers per area.</p>
<p>I don't know the exact situation in Oz but the NBN also use the FOND planning tool.</p>
<p>All I can say is that the companies doing the rollout want to connect as many people as possible in the quickest possible time. The circumstances as to why some areas get done before others are many and can be dictated by govt deals (eg a school or medical centre could result in the neighbouring area being done as described above but the areas next to it aren't necessarily done next as they have to go and do the next school/ medical centre first)</p> -
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<p>Rubbish. He'd need Fibre to the premise for that speed, along with a fibre compatible router configured correctly. Copper line and an ADSL router connecting to the node couldn't do it.</p>
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<p>Well, you know - he's a politician. See article below - ping speed is an interesting point... </p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/08/seeing-is-believing-malcolm-turnbull-speed-tests-fibre-to-the-node/'>http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/08/seeing-is-believing-malcolm-turnbull-speed-tests-fibre-to-the-node/</a></p>
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<p>iiNet are saying their customers are getting some decent speeds - but I wonder how that is going to change as more users are put on?</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.zdnet.com/nbn-fibre-to-the-node-trial-reveals-slower-speeds-7000034688/'>http://www.zdnet.com/nbn-fibre-to-the-node-trial-reveals-slower-speeds-7000034688/</a></p>
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<p>And of course, the copper is the thing as the article says - particularly if you're more than about 1000m from the node by wire. Even if you're closer, the older stuff might not be in quite the same shape and will just need replacing anyway.</p>
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<p>Australia is fast getting left behind and the latest announcement of curtailing the NBN even further is going to hurt.</p>
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<p>Basically, when they get around to it, there will be primarily FTTN (something NZ has had for a while now).</p>
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<div>According to OOKLA Stats.</div>
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<div>World Benchmark: 21.7 Down/9.9 up with mobile 11 down/4.5 up</div>
<div>Australia: 15.9 down/3.9 up with mobile 18.5 down/8.1 up</div>
<div>NZ 25.2 down/11.2 up with mobile 26.3 down/ 10.1 up</div>
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<div>These numbers are only gathered from those doing Ookla tests and tend to be high due to most tests being done by geeks comparing dick sizes. They can probably be compared though.</div>
<div>By Ooklas stats again, over the past two years NZ has improved from 10.7 down, yet Australia started at 12.8. We surpassed Aus in June 2013 and have widened the gap ever since.</div>
<div>I know that the actual connection speed data for NZ straight from the Network Analysers within the network is around 16Mbps which includes rural etc. By world standards that is only starting to quite good and has been on a steady increase for a number of years as people swap out ADSL2+ for VDSL and Fibre (where available)</div> -
<p>This is (work) wireless connection provided at a client site:</p>
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<p>As you can see, pretty average. :(</p>
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<p>This is somewhat deceiving. We mostly hover around 10Mb and in the evening we drop down and the ping is usually a lot slower.</p> -
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<p>Now your just fucking showing off...</p>
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<p>Heres mine, not bad from the wops of Helensville.</p>
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