Telecom's UFB offer?

[awa355]

Is anyone going to take up their offer for the ultra fast broadband? Would it offer any advantage over the existing broadband for residential users?

[AllanB]

If you are a gamer or download heaps of movies it may be worth it.

I won't be interested solely due to the NZ charges of the existing broadband being over priced for what we receive so I'm fucked if I am upgrading and paying more for a service I should be getting for the money I am paying now!

Wankers

[willytheekid]

Is anyone going to take up their offer for the ultra fast broadband? Would it offer any advantage over the existing broadband for residential users?

UFB, they will install the fibre into your house and provide a ONT (optical Network terminal) for free!!
....speeds for residential are 30Mbps up load, and 10Mbps down load.

Its a good deal!, if you have fibre in your street....GET IT! (It won't remain free install forever)

One warning tho...the modem they supply is a very good cable modem...but the wifi sucks!, it is a scalable wifi unit:facepalm:, which means that the slowest wifi connection in the house determines the speed of the rest (its a known flaw with these crappy modems)...BUT, you can get a fibre modem on line for about $150 that dosn't have this rediculas wifi flaw. (besides...if you want SPEEEED & security, use a fucking cable!:laugh:)

...its a good deal and is 3x faster than a high speed ADSL2+ connection

[bogan]

Getting a bigger little pipe is not going to do much good as the big pipe is still too little. Shit goes slow from overseas to NZ, so making shit go fast from NZ exchanges to your house isn't going to do much. Unless you use a lot of national internet traffic, its kind of like getting a ferrari for a gravel road...

[Scuba_Steve]

its kind of like getting a ferrari for a gravel road...

Yea except a Ferrari on a gravel road would be a fuck load of fun wouldn't it? :2thumbsup

[pete376403]

How would it compare with Vodafone (nee TelstraClear) cable?

[SMOKEU]

How would it compare with Vodafone (nee TelstraClear) cable?

Fuck TelstraClear, they are a real con with their tiny data caps which cost a king's ransom. Snap offer UFB for reasonable fees.

[superjackal]

Is anyone going to take up their offer for the ultra fast broadband? Would it offer any advantage over the existing broadband for residential users?

Wouldn't recommend them - they throttle torrents etc...

[SMOKEU]

Wouldn't recommend them - they throttle torrents etc...

I forgot to add, Snap don't do traffic shaping. Not even for torrents.

[Gremlin]

Generally, UFB down is faster than ADSL down, up, it's a lot faster (handy for doing stuff like loading pictures to an imagehost, or uploading videos to Youtube), so yes, there are clear advantages. However, horses for courses, some simply don't need it.

Home is Xtra, so yes, quite possible we'll get UFB (but not available yet). Don't even need a modem as I can put a PPPoE client on the firewall...

[BMWST?]

i might take it up if they offer smaller packages for about the same cost as the mostly unused package i have now

[ducatilover]

Unless you use a lot of national internet traffic, its kind of like getting a ferrari for a gravel road...

Funny you say that, the 308 GTB was developed for Group B rally :lol:

[awa355]

Wouldn't recommend them - they throttle torrents etc...

Really dumb here, but what are Torrents?

[Smifffy]

The data caps are still ridiculous, I'd get to transfer a quarter of the data at 4 times the speed for twice the price?

[superjackal]

Really dumb here, but what are Torrents?

Best way to find downloads.