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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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Google CEO says it’s ‘important for us to explore’ search in China
Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicly addressed his company’s plans to re-enter the Chinese market with a search and news-oriented product, telling a crowd at Wired’s 25th anniversary summit that such a service would be capable of serving 99 percent of queries. Pichai described the Chinese market as “important for us to explore” given its size and the very high likelihood that it will become the largest and most lucrative internet-using population on the planet.
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@antipodean said in The Interweb:
@jegga said in The Interweb:
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:
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:
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 .
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@jegga said in The Interweb:
@snowy said in The Interweb:
@antipodean said in The Interweb:
@jegga said in The Interweb:
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 .
Not for long it seems.
They still have the Wallabies but they don't like to talk about it.
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Amazon launched cloud services in their own ARM server chips today.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton-processors/
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The OpenSSH client and server are now available as a supported Feature-on-Demand in Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 1809! The Win32 port of OpenSSH was first included in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709 as a pre-release feature. In the Windows 10 1803 release, OpenSSH was released as a supported feature on-demand component, but there was not a supported release on Windows Server until now.
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/11/windows-server-2019-includes-openssh/ -
Just before leaving the UK I purchased a WiFi mesh set up for our house in NZ and it arrived with the movers last week.
Sooooo much better than using an extender.
Used to have to switch networks between lounge and bedroom with devices automatically deciding to use a stronger (but slower) 2.4 over the 5. Just irritating to have to manually change.
Now with only two mesh units the whole property runs on a strong fast 5 subnet with devices automatically moving between units as needed.
Really recommend if you have dead spots or are setting up smart house stuff like lights/plugs/locks etc
Had to solve the puzzle of getting Sonos controllers working but worked out that as Sonos creates its own subnet I needed to have either one of each connected by Ethernet or cable one Sonos speaker direct to a mesh unit. Apart from that it’s brilliant and cheaper than a high powered router. -
@Crucial said in The Interweb:
Just before leaving the UK I purchased a WiFi mesh set up for our house in NZ and it arrived with the movers last week.
Sooooo much better than using an extender.
Used to have to switch networks between lounge and bedroom with devices automatically deciding to use a stronger (but slower) 2.4 over the 5. Just irritating to have to manually change.
Now with only two mesh units the whole property runs on a strong fast 5 subnet with devices automatically moving between units as needed.
Really recommend if you have dead spots or are setting up smart house stuff like lights/plugs/locks etc
Had to solve the puzzle of getting Sonos controllers working but worked out that as Sonos creates its own subnet I needed to have either one of each connected by Ethernet or cable one Sonos speaker direct to a mesh unit. Apart from that it’s brilliant and cheaper than a high powered router.What brand did you go for. I’m using an extender at the moment, but it’s creaking under the weight of all the devices we use.
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@Kirwan said in The Interweb:
@Crucial said in The Interweb:
Just before leaving the UK I purchased a WiFi mesh set up for our house in NZ and it arrived with the movers last week.
Sooooo much better than using an extender.
Used to have to switch networks between lounge and bedroom with devices automatically deciding to use a stronger (but slower) 2.4 over the 5. Just irritating to have to manually change.
Now with only two mesh units the whole property runs on a strong fast 5 subnet with devices automatically moving between units as needed.
Really recommend if you have dead spots or are setting up smart house stuff like lights/plugs/locks etc
Had to solve the puzzle of getting Sonos controllers working but worked out that as Sonos creates its own subnet I needed to have either one of each connected by Ethernet or cable one Sonos speaker direct to a mesh unit. Apart from that it’s brilliant and cheaper than a high powered router.What brand did you go for. I’m using an extender at the moment, but it’s creaking under the weight of all the devices we use.
tp-link deco
Got just this two pack to try and it is ample for my needs. Our house has a bit of an l shape and I am jumping across the angle. I didn’t know if that plan would work so went for the deco as they have plenty of different repeaters that all work together. If I needed more I could have just ordered whatever was best price back here and added it on.
Apparently they “copy” the concept that companies like Sonos came up with whereby every unit in the subnet talks to each other.