The speed of internet at your home on ADSL or VDSL copper internet services depends heavily on two factors outside of the homeowner’s control.
Positioned throughout the residential streets of Auckland are green telephone cabinets which connect the copper wires which provide telephone and ADSL/VDSL data connectivity to your home.
The internet speed you experience is directly linked to the distance your home is away from the cabinet. The further away the slower the internet speed.
There is a point where a data signal to support the internet cannot operate. For VDSL this is approx 900m from your house. ADSL is a greater distance, but the speed deteriorates rapidly over distance.
This is also why some rural communities cannot get internet, as by the laws of physics they are too far away from their cabinet. Initially, the copper infrastructure supported telephone calling only (POTS lines). They had not invented Internet and data. In NZ, much of this development and infrastructure occurred post WWII.
The 2nd factor influencing the speed of the internet in your home, relates directly to the number of other ADSL or VDSL users connected to the same cabinet and the demand they place on the cabinet capacity.
As demand on the ADSL or VDSL network grows, the speed and service deteriorates.
This has been prevalent in suburbs where the UFB Fibre is not yet available, so all homes in the street have no choice but to connect using ADSL or VDSL, and often this results in an overload of traffic.
Where there are many users seeking service – the load on the cabinet becomes greater than the capacity and the speed and stability weakens.
The impact is that often a streaming TV will pixelate, or the service sought will not stream. This happens often in the peak Netflix viewing times and when the Rugby World Cup was on.
This also explains why often the internet speed is materially better during the day and then slows down in the evening. Most of the local community are at school or work during the day, so the cabinet is not under load until everyone comes home and wants to watch Netflix shows.
The excellent news is that we overcome these issues with UFB Fibre. Distance is not an issue, and the internet load from the immediate community does not affect your experience.
So, with UFB Fibre, not only do you get a much, much faster service designed for streaming Netflix, YouTube etc, but UFB Fibre is not subject to the neighbours 4 kids also streaming videos and dragging down your viewing experience in the evening.
UFB fibre really is the best of both worlds as it solves the issues that homeowners face with copper-based internet services.
AB Electrical can assist with outlining the options around migrating from ADSL/VDSL to UFB Fibre as there is a physical build undertaken by Chorus and decisions as regards how and where the UFB Fibre infrastructure terminates become very important.
Poor positioning because of Chorus influencing locations, where an expedient build decision is taken by Chorus, can have a serious issue on the user experience and is expensive to rectify.
