Satellite internet has quietly become mainstream broadband in rural New Zealand. Instead of waiting for fibre that may never reach a back-country farm or a
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How Ookla’s Speedtest works from New Zealand, why its numbers differ from Chorus and the Commerce Commission’s tests, and how to get a result you can act on.
In New Zealand the box on the wall that brings the internet into your home is usually two devices doing two very different jobs: the
An internet dongle — sometimes called a USB modem, mobile broadband stick or data stick — is a small device that holds a SIM card
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