Warp-speed Internet

March 31st, 2008 at 9:12 am by David Farrar

Telstra-Clear has launched a warp-speed Internet offering – 25 Mb/s download, 2 Mb/s upload and a monthly 120 GB cap.

The cost is $230 a month which rules it out for most people, but it is good to have the option there, and over time prices should drop.

Vodafone has also announced they will allow customers to go on VDSL2, as well as ADSL2+. VDSL2 can do speeds of up to 50 Mb/s down and 30 Mb/s up – but only if within 1 km of a exchange.

The pricing is not specified, but the story says “VDSL2 connections could be bought by anyone who wants to pay for it”. Does that mean you pay one off for the connection or a higher monthly fee?

Tags: broadband, Telstra-Clear, Vodafone

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14 Responses to “Warp-speed Internet”

berend (1,382) Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 9:59 am
The question is: does it work? I seldom reach the max speeds I can get on my connection (max I’ve ever seen is somewhat over 600KB/s), so does this come with a guarantee?
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philu (13,393) Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 10:12 am
how does the orcon auckland/ponsonby deal/offer compare..?

has anyone signed up..?..and can report..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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peteremcc (326) Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 10:24 am
If you have to ask… you can’t afford it.
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dad4justice (7,339) Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 10:24 am
Can you warp or mach speed your smoke from your glass pipe into your lungs Mr Philly Whoar?

[DPF: Off topic 10 demerits]
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infused (552) Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 11:43 am
berend: The other end has to have the same amount of speed. Most places in NZ, servers that is are 100mbit or around that. Over seas you are still going through the global gateway so I don’t know how the speeds will fair overseas. We have a 100mbit server in auckland and we get around 8meg/s overseas.
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djp (65) Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 11:44 am
phil, I have been on the orcon adsl2 beta test and has been pretty bad. Speedtests are 6MB/800KB down/up which is pretty average but the main problem is that alot of websites dont even work anymore, anz.com, stuff.co.nz, the list goes on… I have to use a proxy to access these websites, its like i am in china or something
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clintheine (1,534) Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 11:55 am
I got 24meg download and 1.3 upload here for £18 per month. It’s brilliant and I live 100m from the exchange so it’s very sweet.
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VJ APU(1) Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Just moved from the lowest of lowest plans with Orcon to the new ADSL2 plan. Sandringham is giving me 3Mb down and 768 up which while is not anywhere near 24Mb its sooooo much better than the old 256k.

I am finding that I have to reset my modem a hell of a lot more than previously now but otherwise for $10 less per month overall I am pretty chuffed.
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freethinker (590) Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 1:57 pm
DPF I read that the Japanese achieve download speeds of 8 MBPS over copper so is there a reason Telecom cannot achive something in that order with exisiting lines?

[Is that 8 MB/s or 8 Mb/s? One can almost do the former with VDSL2 and the latter with ADSL]
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JSF2008 (422) Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Who cares , i have used up my 6GB monthly telecom rip off plan and are on dialup speed (gasp) at the moment till 3-4-08. ITS SLOW, so lets not talk about speeds, its torture.
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Mike Collins (170) Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
The most I have got from my Vodem is 2.5Mb/s but it is consistently above 1Mb/s for downloads. It has a max capacity of 3.6 so not that bad. I find this is still better than the 10Mb/s max I have for Xtra at home as it’s always so damn busy. I only ever use my Vodem.
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Ari (69) Says:
March 31st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
You might want to correct the article, David- the new plan is 25 megaBITS per second, or 25Mbps, not 25MB/s or megabytes per second. The amount of megabytes you get depends on how the data you’re downloading is decoded. You’d need to at least divide the figure by eight to get an accurate download speed, which will probably have even more losses due to data spent on decoding, packet headers, congestion, etc…

In short, you’re far more likely to get three megabytes per second if you sign up for this plan. Unfortuntately, the avergage consumer isn’t going to have a clue that “Mbps” isn’t just an alternative term for “MB/s”, but hey, it IS a standard and more reliable way to measure data transfer speeds…
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David Farrar (1,737) Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 9:39 am
Oh yes meant to be Mb/s – was a typo – I do know the difference.
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Ari (69) Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Cool beans. I usually stick one with “p” and the other with “/” so that they look even more distinct, but that’s a matter of styling. Just didn’t want anyone to get hugely excited about internet speeds jumping by a factor of eight or so
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