I would love to have more data please...

I'll probably need twice the amount of data now, as I've got twice the speeds!

(20GB has been wearing thin the last few months anyway, using about 30GB a month)

The change this morning stopped incoming calls until some time after 10am (which really disrupted a lot of things!), but also brought at least a 100% increase in my speeds, being 2km from the exchange over the Red network.



Here's a copy of my signature info at the Vodafone forum (also under the same user name):

All speed tests are done @ http://www.vodafone.co.nz/broadband/speedtest/

28/09/2008, 12:42pm, Wholesale, crummy D-Link DSL-504T (Gen I):
Download Speed: 6460 kbps (807.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 783 kbps (97.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 43 ms

29/09/2008, 10:07am, Red network, crummy D-Link DSL-504T (Gen I):
Download Speed: 13640 kbps (1705 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 974 kbps (121.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 25 ms



That was a big increase... could I stretch that further?

Yes I could.

Got my MT882 modem during lunch time, and got it up in running in no time, and here are my speeds now:

29/09/2008, 1:05pm, Red network, Huawei MT882:
Download Speed: 15247 kbps (1905.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 899 kbps (112.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 23 ms



... and adding a Linksys router on top (to share with 3 PCs):

29/09/2008, 2:05pm, Red network, Huawei MT882 -> WRT54G:
Download Speed: 14898 kbps (1862.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 866 kbps (108.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 28 ms



So the Huawei MT882 does increase the download speed, but cuts down on the upload a little compared to the D-Link DSL-504T, which isn't that much to me.

But all in all, one happy user  (for the next year or so, until everyone around my locality gets even better speeds from cabinetisation)

I've also noticed that my SNR margin has significantly dropped (from 15dB to 6dB), which I'm not too surprised about, but means that I could possibly do a bit better...



Back to the data bit, now that I've got twice the speed, the 20GB offered from the Ultimate pack Red really will be blown to bits! My mum will get really mad when she finds a "80% usage" email this week...

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