I'm happy - Orcon is fast.
Latest best: 2.3MB/s sustained, and 2.4MB/s peak:
Checkout this screenshot below - I'm downloading about a CD's worth of data in 5 minutes over my ADSL2+ Orcon connection. This is a great improvement over my previous provider Slingshot, who were great in that they had the cheapest and best reporting features in their accounts (like having 4 PIN numbers to track all your flatmates toll calls on easily)... but the connection speed was very poor! Whoopsee! Fine until one day when the connection developed this weird inexplicable transparent proxy condition and we had to switch.
Nice download speed
And here is an Adobe Download via Akamai, done at 8:28pm on a Thursday night - pretty much peak time probably, still was bursting to over 1MB/s:
I have a theory that the homehub - a Siemens router - interacts nicely with the wire in NZ and gives a small boost. What is odd is that I'm pretty sure I had ADSL2 in my street with Slingshot since I was running an ADSL2 Dynalink router but I guess it was just running G.dmt instead.
 Slingshot Speedtest |
 Orcon Speedtest |
Peak speed: 2.31 MB/sec
| Line mode: | ADSL2+ |
| Maximum line rate: | 21704 kbps (downstream) / 1224 kbps (upstream) |
| Noise margin: | 5.4 dB (downstream) / 15.8 dB (upstream) |
| Line attenuation: | 12.5 dB (downstream) / 6.6 dB (upstream) |
| Output power: | 20 dBm (downstream) / 12.3 dBm (upstream) |
| Line Mode | G.dmt | Line State | Show Time |
| DS Speed | 2368 Kbps | US Speed | 96 Kbps |
| DS Latency | Interleave | US Latency | Interleave |
| Trellis Coding | Enabled | Loss of Signal | 0 |
| Line Attenuation | 31 dB | Loss of Frame | 0 |
| Noise Margin | 13 dB | CRC Error | 145 |
| Line Up Count | 1 | Error Second | 63 seconds |
| Line Up Time | 14:03:06:42 | System Up Time | 14:03:07:03 |
| Line Mode | G.dmt | Line State | Show Time |
| DS Speed | 2368 Kbps | US Speed | 96 Kbps |
| DS Latency | Interleave | US Latency | Interleave |
| Trellis Coding | Enabled | Loss of Signal | 0 |
| Line Attenuation | 31 dB | Loss of Frame | 0 |
| Noise Margin | 13 dB | CRC Error | 145 |
| Line Up Count | 1 | Error Second | 63 seconds |
| Line Up Time | 14:03:06:42 | System Up Time | 14:03:07:03 |