So I got this email the other day

Turns out the entire country that has access to fiber is getting Gigabit speeds now. Its pretty fast but to be honest, it doesn't make things that much faster. I haven't noticed any difference in web surfing speeds going from being on the 30 Mbps plan to a 200 Mbps plan and certainly no change now and torrents for me tend to max out at 100 Mbps. Streaming speeds are pretty fast but since I don't have a 4K display, I'm not sure what difference if any there was between 200 Mbps and 1 Gbps. For a free upgrade, i'm not complaining. My ISP believes that typical speeds should be around 600/480 Mbps due to technical limitations but the highest I have seen is 950/570 which I find dependent on time of day since bandwidth is shared between around 30 other customers per node. And to think most of us started on dialup...
http://www.speedtest.net/result/5680966974.png
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In some ways the increase sucks, ISPs tend to over subscribe their capacity - 11 people might be getting 100M on a 1G backhaul.
Strangely enough, its the local power companies that are building and operating the fibre networks in many parts of NZ now. I guess they have the infrastructure in place already like utility poles that they can string cables from and our local telcos are fucking hopeless here. If they had their way, we would still be relying on copper.