The first image is my 4G wireless connection, it's been decent enough, but does drop occasionally, as the house is on a hill & signals don't play nice around here- I only get 2/4 bars on the modem.
The second image is my new HFC fibre connection, I am paying for 100mbps down/40mbps up. It ranges from the appalling result below to as high as 90mbps down. The upload speed is always solid at around 37-40mbps.
The nearest exchange is about 10 houses away & they ran a new line from there to the house earlier this year.
I had heard that the upgraded fibre network was bad, but thought that given my location, it should be decent. I probably should have put the money towards a plane ticket out of this backwater joke of a country.
I'm on 100mbit vdsl2, synced at 87mbps with 37mbps upload. I get similar result to allot of Australian speedtest servers at this present time also.
Its an Australia wide bandwidth issue, basically ISPs are refusing to upgrade their backbones and this is the result. If you try every server you will find some work faster then others, this is evidence to what I said.
Yeah I noticed that some are faster than others, seems like the national broadband network is just a massive waste of money if we are still on copper speeds at the end of it.
New Zealand seems to have done it right though, I have a mate on 500-600mbps.
Yeah well the backhall networks in Australia can't really deal with 10mbps during peak times at best (and international links). They haven't bothered to upgrade those it seems, so it is a bit of a waste as it means you must wait until everyone goes to bed or during offpeak to get your full speeds.
If the international speed charts took into account 24hr logs over a week, I think you would find Australia to fall a few more notches down that ladder....
There is this http://testmy.net but I have no idea which servers it tests against. (actually it appears to speedtest to a local server so this site is a good way to get a 24/7 result of your connection.) I might leave it running.
(PS it can do it over 100 cycles, so perhaps 1 per hour is best for a total of 100hrs tested. And set data min size to 10mb/5mb)
We actually upgraded the string connection between the cans to copper with some fiber in the middle, so its better now.
$99 is too much IMO, I use MyRepublic which is as good as any really considering the situation. If you ever switch in the future let me know as I can get us both $40 credit from their referral system.
Problem is here, fibre still hasn't been rolled out to many parts of the country. I live a little bit out from the main city in Auckland, but apparently, my place isn't due to have fibre until 2019, yet a couple suburbs away, they have full 100mbps+
Been running fibre in a central/southern suburb for well over a year now, gigabit since it was released. Was following the fibre development since 2012. It's well worth the wait. If you're desperate for fibre, moving or paying for your street to be accelerated is the only option. In 6-10 months I'll be moving out to Henderson area and will be wiring the new place up with Cat6, the place already has 100mbit and is capable but the fibre ends in the kitchen above the sink for some unknown reason. I'll be in a room upstairs opposit the current location of the router.
None the less I'll get gigabit somehow. In all honesty most people don't need more than 100mbit. Plenty of bandwidth for downloading and streaming content with 3-4 people under the same roof. Current place has 7 people so initially running 200mbit hich wasn't enough for the heavy load of 7 people plus a PC repairs business.
NBN Co was recently talking about just putting everyone else on the satellite service which has data caps and 600ms ping to anywhere. I think once this government is over and given a few years people will be digging up how much of a fraud the NBN rollout was for MANY places and how it was a massive scam from the start.
Also fiber everywhere was about future proofing the network. This copper system we have now even if VDSL2 is now viable, is not going to last very long. Unfortunately the 100mbit is enough (most never get this btw) people don't understand this, sure give us 100mbit but be sure the lines can be scaled up to 1gbit in the future, which they can't now.,..
Governments don't know what future proof means, here is a wiki for those also unsure what it means:
