As an anecdata point, I don't know anyone with fibre and I live in Auckland. I get 3mb on a good day when it's still and sunny. Rain and wind lead to dial up speeds.
Wonder if the rollout has targeted certain areas first - newer suburbs first or those with the dodgiest copper? It really is dire where I am. I tried to get on the Rural broadband (4g) bandwagon but the people at Spark I talked to just couldn't understand why anyone wouldn't want the copper connection.
that's interesting, I (used to) live in Christchurch, and the statement is what we had at the time. Most of the folks I knew were more rural, and either had adsl, dial up, or a 3G usb stick.
I pay around 80nzd/mo for unlimited . Latency is not awesome. That was literally the only thing I was worried about moving back to NZ "how well will Netflix work and will managing servers drive me nuts". Netflix is still awesome, the round trip to US based servers is noticeable - 130ms west coast. That said I get home from work in the largest city and go for a swim in beautiful bay 2 mins walk from my door ...
Don't live in NZ, but somewhere similarly distant to the US West Coast. Server management is a pain in the ass -- all I can say is that deploying from colocated (i.e. close to app servers) jumphosts makes life infinitely less painful.
How's the tech scene in NZ? My (academic) wife and I were looking at the map, and we were thinking that maybe NZ wouldn't be a bad place to work for a few years.
Tech scene: great -- plenty of hungry tech companies looking for talent. Xero, PushPay, TradeMe, Orion Health all hiring hard. Catalyst is the Open Source shop of choice. Happy to answer q's if you're curious. (me@gnat.me if you need to make 1:1 contact)
