on 24-01-2015 05:58 AM
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-12/australian-internet-speeds-rank-44th-in-the-world/6012570
A US study has delivered an unwelcome finding about Australian internet speeds, finding that they are well behind the international pack.
One engineering expert said the nation would continue to tumble down in world rankings if the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) continues in its current form.
....Australia's relative decline was because many other countries were moving forward apace with new and upgraded networks.
"The drop is happening because a lot of other countries over this period are moving towards fibre-based access networks, or they've already completed rollouts of what we would call the multi-technology mixing/mixed networks...."
"Whatever way you look at it, what it means is that the average speeds that Australians are enjoying are slowly becoming less than most of our competitors around the world."
Copper-based network slowing Australia down: expert
Federal Government's decision to switch from fibre-to-the-home to a mixed fibre/copper network was part of the reason for the decline.
"One of the reasons is that we're falling down the list [is] that we're moving towards utilising a copper-based access network," he said.
"Whereas previously, under the Labor government, we were moving towards an all fibre-based network, which is what most of our competitors are now doing.........
We all know this!!!!!
"The key difference between New Zealand and Australia is that New Zealand made the decision to do fibre-to-the-premise, they've stuck with that decision," he said.
Even though Australia is much larger geographically, Dr Gregory said fibre-to-the-home should be financially viable for a network to cover the vast bulk of the population.
"Fibre-to-the-premise is viable in Australia, mainly because most Australians are clustered around the coast," he said.
"If you look at the density of Australians, then really we don't differ very much from most other countries in the world, we're just a large country, but with the technologies that we've got today to actually roll out fibre systems, the cost is not that different from most other countries in the world."
Average connection speed by country
1. South Korea
2. Hong Kong
3. Japan
4. Switzerland
5. Sweden
6. Netherlands
7. Ireland
8. Latvia
9. Czech Republic
10. Singapore
44. Australia
Source: Akamai's State of the Internet Report
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24-01-2015 04:30 PM - edited 24-01-2015 04:34 PM
Repeating oneself seems to be the order of the day LOL
Seriously, we need to talk about and then actively address Australian internet Upload Speeds....
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/10/we-need-to-talk-about-upload-speeds/
and there are still 700,000 premises around the nation that are unable to get any broadband at all.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/01/most-aussies-have-**bleep**py-internet-speeds/
on 24-01-2015 04:51 PM
If any one wants to see just how bad Aust ranks and compare your actual speeds to those claimed you should be getting
http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/
24-01-2015 05:01 PM - edited 24-01-2015 05:03 PM
Thanks Hawk....I see where Geraldton WA (which was given 'new' rollout??, over and above Bunbury) scores 39.77 Mbps D/Load speed
Like to know why Geraldton was given preference over Bunbury when Bunbury is WA's largest regional city/centre....... obviously to serve Govt for some reason.
Subiaco outer Perth city centre scores highly too
on 24-01-2015 06:22 PM
@paintsew007 wrote:Thanks Hawk....I see where Geraldton WA (which was given 'new' rollout??, over and above Bunbury) scores 39.77 Mbps D/Load speed
Like to know why Geraldton was given preference over Bunbury when Bunbury is WA's largest regional city/centre....... obviously to serve Govt for some reason.
Subiaco outer Perth city centre scores highly too
Doubtful that's the reason. It would be to do with the network design, most likely. The SKA might have been factored in. Geraldton probably had inadequate service and was probably the site of a POI. Quigley wasn't in it for the politics.
24-01-2015 07:00 PM - edited 24-01-2015 07:03 PM
It never fails to amaze me that those who make the most noise about the NBN and the Internet speeds are the ones with only a tiny smattering of actual knowledge about the technicalities involved.
They hang on to a false promise made by a desperate aspiring prime minister and supported by a shonky conman who was attempting to create a monopoly of the NBN in the hopes of controlling the information flow and forcing an expensive white elephant on everyone.
All of those players have now gone from the scene after handing over the mess for someone else to clean up.
Copper is the real victim in this charade. All those how swallowed the false promise without any knowledge of the subject are now up in arms that what was promised did not eventuate. It was actually known that it was not possible to deliver the promise but it was made anyway and the unknowing, unsuspecting crowd swallowed it, hook, line and sinker.
who gets the blame? why the ones who are trying to clean up the mess of course.
24-01-2015 07:04 PM - edited 24-01-2015 07:04 PM
Some one here laughed at me once and said I was going back to NZ the land of slow Dial up hahaha, I will have the last laugh and fast as, sweet as internet 🙂
24-01-2015 07:21 PM - edited 24-01-2015 07:21 PM
Hi ya Rosie 🙂
How fast is your net? Like to find out?
on 24-01-2015 07:31 PM
on 24-01-2015 08:01 PM
Ok I dont understand any of this but this is what it says
Ping 8ms, Down load 28.61mbps, Up load 9.64 mbps, seem to bounce off Auckland by the look of it, I am Bay of Plenty
24-01-2015 08:13 PM - edited 24-01-2015 08:15 PM
Thats good Rosie compared to what most here have.
Plods I think you missed the fact that the OPs complaint is about the pathetic standard of service we suffer here not how much they know about the tech knowledgy involved.
No one needs to know the ins and outs to know we are way way behind the rest of the world and Telstra and the government are to blame for failing to maintain and invest in the infrastructure