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Gajmitch: I gave up on that when I saw Chorus' ADSL cabinet planning00:27
G"Yeah, lets do suburb X and Y now, and come back in two years time and do the two major exchanges in between then"00:28
ajmitchG: it was just amusing putting in my friend's address & seeing them right in the middle of a blank area for UFB00:31
Gthe problem (imo) with UFB/RBI is the misinformation, Orcon insist I'll be able to get Fibre 'sometime not too far away' yet I'm outside the UFB zone, and the fibre running down the road won't be upgraded for RBI00:35
ibeardslee"UFB deployment dates for your area are still being developed"00:35
ibeardsleesigh00:35
ibeardsleemind you, I do have TelstraClear cable00:35
ajmitchG: yeah I've had the advertising from snap saying that UFB is available, but it's not yet00:36
Gexactly, only upgrade I know for certain I'm getting is a RBI Cabinet in ~14-15 months00:37
GJoe Bloggs down the street would see the Orcon thing and go "Oh neato, this is great" with massive disappointment down the line00:38
ajmitchI know that UFB will be available on my street at some point in the coming months00:38
ajmitchundecided whether it's worth me going for it or not00:39
Gajmitch: actually your example is worse, because someone could see that and put it in a Real Estate listing not realising it's not true yet, and effectively lie (without realising it)00:39
ojwbsomething untrue is a real estate listing?00:56
hadsajmitch: For me UFB is cheaper than a phone line and DSL connection01:07
ajmitchhads: it might be for me, I'm on a 12-month lease at the place I'm living so it might depend on whether UFB is available before the lease needs renewed01:12
hadsPhoneline ($50) & Telecom 60GB ADSL ($115) so $165 total compared to 100GB UFB at $11001:15
ibeardsleehads: is a voip account extra on top of that?01:17
ajmitchphone & 125GB cap on DSL for $95 for me with snap01:17
hads30/10 UFB with Snap is $75/month01:18
ajmitchhads: who are you going with for UFB provider?01:18
hadsSnap, only real option at the moment.01:18
hadsibeardslee: There's VoIP included in that.01:18
ajmitchyeah, I thought there might be a few more options by now, but I guess it's still early days01:18
hadsI'd be interested to see what Telecom offer, they seem to be the ones with International bandwidth01:19
hadsI'm not confident that Snap are going to be any good in that respect.01:19
ajmitchthey always say that they've got enough & that they don't saturate the links, but I see a few people complaining about bad international speeds01:20
hadsYeah, I was one of them in 2009 before I switched to Telecom01:20
* ajmitch doesn't download enough when watching the speed01:20
hadsI transfer media over to the US and AU for people and notice it quite a lot.01:21
hadsBeing able to hit line speed with Telecom DSL is nice e.g. 1.8MB/s down from Linode01:21
ajmitchyes, that is nice01:23
Ghads: $115 in total for Telecom? Wowah, ~$100 for ~150GB iirc atm01:36
Gerrr 16501:36
hadsG: Telecom "Business" DSL01:41
Ghads: ahh right of course01:48
lifelessoh good ISP discussion02:02
lifelesshads: Telecom lets you hit line speed?02:03
lifelesshads: I've *never* gotten line rate out of Telecom beyond noddy speed tests, and *never* during peak period.02:03
lifelessAFAICT their backbone to Rangiora is saturated, but try getting them to own up to it.02:03
chiltsdoes a "Business" plan actually mean anything more than higher prices?02:10
chiltsI've never been sure02:10
Gchilts: iirc it goes through a different internal network at Telecom once it crosses their border02:12
hadslifeless: Yup, that 1.8MB/s is rsync+SSH so no weird results from HTTP speedtests.02:23
hadschilts: You get to call people in NZ when something goes wrong.02:24
chiltsI guess it's the support that's different02:25
chiltsah, I see, different network too02:25
chiltsmaybe more reliable :)02:25
hadsI don't recall any downtime in the last 2.5 years actually. Not sure if their residential has had any.02:26
hadshttps://twitter.com/nicegear/status/272888056141471744/photo/102:27
hadshttps://twitter.com/nicegear/status/272889319256100864/photo/102:28
ajmitchhads: let's hope you don't have too many horror stories with snap & UFB02:28
hadsFingers crossed. I'm keeping one of the two DSL lines for the moment :)02:28
lifelesshads: what city are you in ?02:29
hadsTimaru02:29
lifelessinteresting02:29
hadss/city/town/02:29
lifelesshads: Timary is a city, surely02:29
hadsNot quite, ~27k or so.02:29
GTo be fair to Telecom, all the issues I've had w/ ADSL lately have been physical line issues (and you can't really blame them today for the silly decisions made 10-20 years back)02:31
chiltstoo unclear here as to whether you are a town or a city. In Blighty you are a city if you have a catherdral, else you're a town (or less)02:32
chiltsof course, this was the original rules - that has now changed02:32
chiltsI believe Milton Keynes is now considered a city02:32
chiltsor maybe not "Milton Keynes competed for formal city status in the 2000, 2002 and 2012 competitions, but was not successful." -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes02:33
chiltsso you 'compete' to become a city02:34
ajmitchI think it used to be 20k people was considered a city here02:35
hadsI think it's 30k?02:35
ajmitchif you can believe wikipedia, it says 20k prior to 198902:36
lifelesswikipedia is always right02:36
ajmitchsure02:37
lifelessajmitch: add a /!\ cite ? :)02:37
chiltsif Palmerston North is 75k, maybe that's a city too02:41
ojwbchilts: the "has a cathedral" thing in the UK hasn't been entirely true for ages02:42
ojwbhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom02:44
chiltsyeah, fair enough02:45
chiltsages being?02:45
* chilts reads02:45
chilts"In the twentieth century ..."02:46
chiltsso somewhere between 1900-1999 it changed :)02:46
ojwbprobably 1907, if you read further02:47
chiltsah yeah, minimum 300,000 etc02:48
ojwbthe first city which didn't happen to also have a cathedral is hard to determine from that article, but Cambridge doesn't have one02:51
chiltsinteresting reading though02:52
ojwb(to be uncharacteristically pedantic, 20th century would be 1901-2000)02:56
chiltsfmarier: wow, pretty much everyone on NodejsNZ missed my humour on that post! :(09:34
chiltsexcept you09:34
chiltshmm09:34
fmarierchilts: yeah and that last post is so wrong. web performance matters, a lot09:43
fmarierunless of course your site doesn't matter :)09:43
ojwbmorning17:50
mwhudsonmorning18:31
ibeardsleemorning18:36
hadsSo far not a great start to UFB. Was on hold to Snap for 25 minutes to ask about low speed (20Mbit/s national) and they said to wait 48 hours.18:52
ojwbstupid updater18:55
ojwbwifi drops and it instantly gives up18:55
ojwbat least the downloaded packages seem to be cached18:55
ojwbis that fixed in a newer version?18:55
ojwbthis is upgrading from whatever the one is which has recently gone out of support18:56
ajmitchmorning19:13
ajmitchhads: I suppose you got the 100/50 plan?19:13
Atamiragood morning19:22
Atamirahads, you're on snap? how do you find it?19:23
ibeardsleehads: is that to warm up the wires properly?19:24
ojwbstupid thing died again19:30
hadsajmitch: Yeah 100/5019:33
hadsAtamira: I've been on Snap for about 12 hours, not excited so far.19:33
hadsibeardslee: Yes I think it must be19:33
Atamiraahh, my friends been trying to talk me into it. its cheaper than orcon for the amount of gigs i use19:34
Atamiraswears its worth it19:34
ajmitch20Mbps national on a line that can do 100 is pretty poor, I hope that's a simple fix19:34
Atamirabut then again, he swore that telecom was it as well19:34
hadsajmitch: Me too, last night they told me to call back today, today they told me to call back in 48 hours.19:35
ajmitchit wouldn't be so bad if they explained why, e.g. looking for congestion or problems19:39
* ajmitch has always had good dealings with snap support, but has heard from others that they seem disorganised & don't communicate well19:40
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chiltsmorning20:25

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