Glad I topped up again today...
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Discovery trimming down to have a leaner trans-tasman machine...
Yes, Vodafone. Bit more info if you’re interested - upload and download speeds jump around a bit but with the vodafone service we were typically getting download of around 40 Mbps and upload of 20 or so. On the afternoon after cutover to sky we were getting download speed of up to 130 and upload of up to 80.
Don’t know the technical whys and wherefore behind those numbers but I do know that we got better signal in more places around the house with the new Sky service/router. My son stopped complaining about being unable to play his games, my daughter stopped complaining about dodgy streaming, and my wife stopped complaining about stilted zoom calls. Everybody happy.
From what I have been told those speeds are only guaranteed using a Ethernet cord. I go from 900mps download plugged in to 130mps using 5g wifi. Makes it feel kinda pointless having a gigabit connection really. Someone correct me if I am wrong but this is what stuff fibre customer service team have told me. Lucky for me I plug most of my devices in using Ethernet cords.
The top speeds advertised are always theoretical. In actual practice you will see lower speeds, especially with wifi connected devices.
Then there is the issue of what your device can handle. It doesn’t matter how ‘fast’ the internet speed is - your device will only be able to process the signal at a certain speed (and that speed is a lot less than 900Gbs!).
But with Spark I have had download speeds between 400-500Gbs and Upload speeds 200Gbs+.
[QUOTE=mistaTea;882649]The top speeds advertised are always theoretical. In actual practice you will see lower speeds, especially with wifi connected devices.
Then there is the issue of what your device can handle. It doesn’t matter how ‘fast’ the internet speed is - your device will only be able to process the signal at a certain speed (and that speed is a lot less than 900Gbs!).
But with Spark I have had download speeds between 400-500Gbs and Upload speeds 200Gbs+.[/QUOTE
Are those speeds over wifi or plugged in? I can't stand Spark but heck if I could get those speeds over wifi it would tempt me to switch.