VDSL2
January 31st, 2009 at 8:58 am by David FarrarThe Herald reports on Telecom’s announcement that it will roll out VDSL2 to it cabinets.
If you live within a km of a cabinet in theory you can get 50 Mb/s download speed and 20 Mb/s upload. In reality it will be less than this due to congestion on the backhaul.
It’s good to see Telecom making this available. The price details will be interesting, once known.
Tags: broadband, Telecom
January 31st, 2009 at 9:18 am
People on the lowest CAPS will have to be careful. At that speed, a monthly 200MB cap will be blown in 32 seconds! A 1 GB cap will be used up in 2m 40s!
Vote:January 31st, 2009 at 9:28 am
In the afternoons and evenings my broadband speed drops considerably. The maximum speed I get is around 4500kbps, but, in the afternoons / evenings I’ve seen this drop to as low as 400kbps.
How will having a faster internet connection help when the backhaul capacity is already the bottleneck? Although, you’d think telecom would have thought about this and are expanding backhaul accordingly. Who knows? Dumber things have happened.
Vote:January 31st, 2009 at 11:27 am
I’d still like to be able to get broadband at all!!
I only live 10kms from a township in South Auckland, but they still say the exchange is too old, or that we’re too far away from the exchange. Our road has the one cabinet with a capacity of 30 lines and they’re all being used.
In this day and age, SURELY I shouldn’t be having to use dialup still
Vote:January 31st, 2009 at 11:45 am
So, downloading a microsoft update will take about 4 seconds.. and torrents will still be throttled to about 20kbps?
Vote:January 31st, 2009 at 1:34 pm
As pointed out, the availability of VDSL2 will not make things better for kiwis in general. Why? Because the cost of capacity does not magically go down if you enable harder suction on the CPE end of the network.
The big issue for NZ’s internet is the price ISPs are paying for their capacity. I sincerely hope the government’s billion dollar injection into our internet will involve more national fibre links with open peering at every point and something to address the international costings. Without it, nothing will improve even if they do Fibre to the Home!
Mind you, ISPs like mine seem to prefer to wallow in the problem – I offered to spend the thousands for them and get a P2P caching server (which would have made their international capacity meet more customers and thus save bucket loads of cash), but they instead preferred to tell me to take my ideas and offers and insert them in places I don’t wish to repeat in this paragraph – in a “read between the lines” corporate kind of way of course.
Vote:January 31st, 2009 at 1:47 pm
dime says:
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“So, downloading a microsoft update will take about 4 seconds.. and torrents will still be throttled to about 20kbps?
Indeed. No fast download of “linux isos” for you.
Vote:January 31st, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Ross Nixon – dude you’re mixing up speeds with the amount of data you are downloading. If you’re still only downloading 2mb of email a day – then that will still only be 2mb even though it arrives at a faster rate.
Fletch – in this day and age you surely can get broadband… you just have to pay for it. ADSL is only one sort of broadband, if you live in 10kms from South Auckland, then you can probably get Orcon’s wireless service or at the very least Bay City’s satellite (www.baycity.co.nz). Sure they may not be ADSL, but they’re still better than dial up. Also if you have mobile coverage at your house then once the two main networks upgrade their networks (Telecom from June Vodafone next year) then you will be able to get mobile broadband with speeds estimated to be around 14mbps. So it’s available now – Telecom isn’t the only player.
Vote:January 31st, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Andrew, I knew that. I meant they could blow it easily. If they clicked to download something that turned out to be something they didn’t mean to get, like a 4.7GB ISO.
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