Hard News: New on the Street
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That map is also displayed in the window display of my office - Professionals Real Estate at 338 Pt Chev Rd.
Telecom/Chorus have actually done an amazing job with this first suburb rollout.
They have about 2500 households and 600 businesses in Pt Chev to connect up to the cabinets individually - very labour intensive as each connection done manually by a techie.
Just think if we had not put the pressure on Telecom as a local community we might not have seen this high speed connection for 3 years!
As soon as the cabinet is connected it serves ADSL 2+ but you need a router with this ADSL 2+ capability and will only get the very high speeds at this stage if you are using Xtra as your broadband provider.
Orcon, Ihug etc will have to install their own equipment in the cabinet you are served from in order to get those same speeds, in the meantime your connection to those other providers will be back at the Mt Albert exchange.
My house is about as far away from the cabinet as you can be, yet we are nowl getting 9,000 download and 800 upload - before we were just too far away from the exchange to even bother with internet.
Everyone I know who now has the new fast system up and running is escstatic about the service so good on ya Telecom. -
Yes, thank you telecom for finally providing average broadband 10 years after it was available, excuse my sarcasm. I have concerns that we will wait another ten years before we get fibre to the door. This is what we need now! I like John Keys idea of government investing in this just like roads and other important infrastructure. 9,000 down 800 up this wont be enough for new TV and movie services that will become available soon particularly with HD Video. I guess needs vary. I appreciate the efforts of the people who got Pt Chev to the top of the list but the fight may not be over. We should start the Point Chev fibre to the door group now! anybody in?
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