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Since TelecomNZ "announced" higher "broad-band" speeds of 2.5MBps those of us that aren't with XTRA are slowed down.
It takes me 3-5 minutes to load a single page these days.
Same price less service (2kbps, I was better off on dial-up).
The speed increase only includes those that are customers of TelecomNZ.
And if you are a child that has rich parents that don't mind the cost, go for it.
And you you also get a paltry 128kbps upload speed thrown in.
No XTRA charge for that though.

[This message has been edited by Trumpy (edited 03-11-2006).]

Draft Document PTC 106 has been released for comment on Residential Telephone installations.
It looks not unlike the PTC 103 document I linked to above, but there are a few changes in this new document.

I recently re-wired the phone installation in my apartment and found that my line's drastically improved in terms of quality. DSL was always ok, seems to comfortably carry my 3mbit/s ISP connection.

However, it was interesting to use a dial up modem as a benchmark for before and after.

Before the rewire: 45kbps
After : 52Kbps

The old wiring included some horrible DIY connections using normal flat non-solid telephone wire pushed into IDC connectors and wound around them.