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New Zealand to get 10 Gbps fibre to premises in 2020

gravelc 7y ago
Whereas next door in Australia many people struggle to get 25mbps with their FTTN connections. NZ really got their role out right.
- LIV2 7y ago
  Unfortunately our government is very anti-technology and would like for all Australians to grow up to be coal miners instead of building a tech based economy.
  - ksec 7y ago
    I have heard from my friends in AUS, and he said there were lots of interest from Old Cables, Satellite, and TV companies to not want people with faster Internet where OTT will become the norm. Not sure if this is true.
    - rasz 7y ago
      Afaik the Council deciding how to roll out NBN was headed by Telstra people.
- paranoidrobot 7y ago
  I'm in an apartment with FTTP. I'm actually sitting right next to the ONT right now, it has 4x 1Gbit ethernet ports and the GPON is physically capable of delivering 2.4Gbit down, 1.2Gbit up. However ordering anything above 100Mbit is so prohibitively expensive as to make it unavailable.
- shardinator 7y ago
  10mbs on a good day. 5mbps is more common - inner city suburb.
y4mi 7y ago
I just switched to gigabit. Not even my 200€ router (ubiquity ER-4) would be able to handle 10. Though that's a nice problem to have
- Youden 7y ago
  I'm curious if anyone knows of a good option for symmetric 10Gbps at home. Only thing I can think of is a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN 10Gb switch and a PC with a NIC with two 10Gb SFP+ ports to handle NAT, DHCP etc.
  - y4mi 7y ago
    The ER-8-XG router would be able to handle that easily... and it costs only $1800! https://www.ui.com/edgemax/comparison/ https://www.ui.com/edgemax/comparison/
  - smcleod 7y ago
    Running PFSense on a device with an Intel 10Gbit NIC performs incredibly well and is certainly very affordable especially if you buy the NIC second hand
    - justinclift 7y ago
      According to this (written ~15 days ago), Mellanox ethernet support is being added and should be available in PfSense snapshots: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7537 https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7537 Mellanox cards are very cheap 2nd hand on Ebay, and are very good quality hardware. Just don't buy them new. :) eg: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mellanox+connectx+VPI&_sop=15 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mellanox+conn... https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mellanox+connectx+EN&_sop=15 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mellanox+conn...
- magicbuzz 7y ago
  I’m on 100Mbit Chorus fibre, with the option to go to 1Gbit.
Albertchrist 7y ago
Enabling people with Internet is one of the most important to survive as a nation in this century.
whb07 7y ago
So 10gbps but whats the latency to a standard site/company that isn't near the Australian continent? So whats the response time for a JP, US, and EU ?
- toomuchtodo 7y ago
  https://wintelguy.com/wanlat.html https://wintelguy.com/wanlat.html (WAN Latency Estimator)

Whereas next door in Australia many people struggle to get 25mbps with their FTTN connections. NZ really got their role out right.

LIV2 7y ago
Unfortunately our government is very anti-technology and would like for all Australians to grow up to be coal miners instead of building a tech based economy.
- ksec 7y ago
  I have heard from my friends in AUS, and he said there were lots of interest from Old Cables, Satellite, and TV companies to not want people with faster Internet where OTT will become the norm. Not sure if this is true.
  - rasz 7y ago
    Afaik the Council deciding how to roll out NBN was headed by Telstra people.
paranoidrobot 7y ago
I'm in an apartment with FTTP. I'm actually sitting right next to the ONT right now, it has 4x 1Gbit ethernet ports and the GPON is physically capable of delivering 2.4Gbit down, 1.2Gbit up. However ordering anything above 100Mbit is so prohibitively expensive as to make it unavailable.
shardinator 7y ago
10mbs on a good day. 5mbps is more common - inner city suburb.

y4mi 7y ago

I just switched to gigabit. Not even my 200€ router (ubiquity ER-4) would be able to handle 10. Though that's a nice problem to have

Youden 7y ago
I'm curious if anyone knows of a good option for symmetric 10Gbps at home. Only thing I can think of is a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN 10Gb switch and a PC with a NIC with two 10Gb SFP+ ports to handle NAT, DHCP etc.
- y4mi 7y ago
  The ER-8-XG router would be able to handle that easily... and it costs only $1800! https://www.ui.com/edgemax/comparison/ https://www.ui.com/edgemax/comparison/
- smcleod 7y ago
  Running PFSense on a device with an Intel 10Gbit NIC performs incredibly well and is certainly very affordable especially if you buy the NIC second hand
  - justinclift 7y ago
    According to this (written ~15 days ago), Mellanox ethernet support is being added and should be available in PfSense snapshots: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7537 https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7537 Mellanox cards are very cheap 2nd hand on Ebay, and are very good quality hardware. Just don't buy them new. :) eg: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mellanox+connectx+VPI&_sop=15 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mellanox+conn... https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mellanox+connectx+EN&_sop=15 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mellanox+conn...
magicbuzz 7y ago
I’m on 100Mbit Chorus fibre, with the option to go to 1Gbit.

Albertchrist 7y ago

Enabling people with Internet is one of the most important to survive as a nation in this century.

whb07 7y ago

So 10gbps but whats the latency to a standard site/company that isn't near the Australian continent? So whats the response time for a JP, US, and EU ?

toomuchtodo 7y ago
https://wintelguy.com/wanlat.html https://wintelguy.com/wanlat.html (WAN Latency Estimator)