New Zealand Local Weather Forum
Weather Discussion => Hardware Software and Technology => Topic started by: TonyC on August 08, 2016, 12:28:00 PM
-
Don't know whether this is of any interest to anyone but I've been doing a bit of experimentation:-
We've just converted from VDSL to fibre at our townhouse in ChCh. The speed of the VDSL was about 40mbs download and 15mbs up.
Using an Pavilion G6 - laptop with an I7 processor, but I guess with an internal 10/100 network adaptor I attached it directly to the Vodafone supplied Huawei-659 (the same used for the VDSL connection) and using Speedtest found the download speed was 85mbs down and 20mbps up. I did query this with a Vodafone technician and he told me that I would need a computer with a gigabyte adapter to download at the full 100mbps which is what I'm paying for. If I connect the laptop wirelessly to the Huawei-659 at a distance of around 6 metres the speed drops to 30mbps confirming reports that the Huawei has a lousy wireless track record.
Where the fibre and phone connects to the house is in a far bedroom, so I have a Netcomm Powerline Wireless adapter (500mbps) which is situated in the centre of the house. As well as wireless it has two ethernet ports. Connecting directly to the ethernet port of the Powerline adapter the speed is 66mbps so that's a about a 25% reduction which I guess isn't too bad and connecting wirelessly to the adapter the speed is 40mbps. Given that I'm the only one likely to put any load on the system as a opposed to anyone with a house loadload of teenagers downloading video, speed is not an issue.
What it does illustrate though is that the speed of the connection at the point of entry is only as good as the equipment inside your house and possibly to gain the full advantages of fibre you not only need to examine closely how good the equipment (Modem/Router) each internet provider offers, but be prepared to upgrade your own computers/routers/switches as well. I'd be interested to know whether the Router provided by Vodafone would cope with several wireless connections simultaneously watching video over the internet
Tony C.