Is my Internet speed fast compared to other Australians?

Hotpotcorn on 10/02/2015 - 22:16
Last edited 10/02/2015 - 22:25

Yes, this is another whinge post by me.
sick of my shitty adsl 1 internet (yes adsl 1 not even 2)
SPEEDTEST

i live in chirnside park 3116 VIC.

my whole family is fed up with this terrible internet. the place where we live can only get telstra…. we are on the MORK EXCHANGE(MOROOLBARK EXCHANGE)

when i download something everyone in the household gets 1kb/s download.
our internet is that bad that i cant even watch a 480p video properly without pausing the video.
was gonna get nbn but then liberals won and the rollout in my area got nuked and disappeared.

i bet out of all ozbargainers here im the one with the shittest internet.
comeon this is 2015 not 1995. i dont want to wait 12 hours just to download a hd movie from bigpond.

we are not even that far from the city… just 40minute drive…

like please telstra atleast upgrade us to adsl 2+ or even better please marcolm turnbull/tony abbott please give me the nbn…. im so sick of this adsl 1 shit….. im so jealous that pretty much all my friends can enjoy cable/adsl 2+ internet which is double or triple speeds as me….

my 4g on my iphone 6 is 100* faster than my homes internet (no joke)

contacted telstra and they said they cant do anything about it……….

are there anyways to get faster internet EXCEPT:
-moving out
-sit and wait for the nbn which is like never gonna come

Internet

Comments

  • Axelstrife on 10/02/2015 - 22:36

    6 times my speed on adsl2+.
    http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4131313562
    but even i can watch youtube without buffering at 480p.

  • Ventak on 10/02/2015 - 22:43
    +2

    Nope, yours is similar to mine. You're not alone in wanting both a better connection & better speed.

    From the looks of it, your options (like mine) are:

    1) Get cable (if possible). That will give you good download speeds (not upload though), but if your area doesn't have cable already, you'll need to signup to Foxtel to get it…which you may not want.
    2) Wait for your fibre to the node connection. Chances are it'll be better in terms of speed (unless you're really far from your exchange then it won't make much differencE) but your connection will still be affected by external factors due to it still using copper wires.
    3) Wait for fibre on demand to rollout. This assumes that when the fibre to the node connection is being built in your area, you'll be able to pay to upgrade to a full fibre connection or that later on you'll be able to do that.

    Of course, if Labor return to government in 2016, you may then get your original wish…
    4) Wait for your full fibre connection via the NBN. This assumes Labor returns to power and reinstates it's old policy or the Liberals change tactics and go full fibre.

    • Devils Advocate on 10/02/2015 - 22:53
      +1

      Surely Labor can't take NBN to the next election, the country has taken a massive income hit with the commodity crash.

      Usually once the other party introduces savings measures in times like this (budget-wise), the other party respects them.

      • Ventak on 10/02/2015 - 23:18
        +3

        The NBN is funded with equity though, not debt or taxpayer dollars (you never hear about the NBN via the budget as it doesn't affect the deficit at all). And in any case, in either design (Labor's FTTP NBN or the Coalition's MTM NBN), both show that they're expected to provide a good return, just that Labor intended to do the full fibre rollout in one go, while the Coalition wishes to do a mix of technologies first (FTTN, expanding HFC & the existing FTTP contracts), with the intention for a future government to finish the fibre rollout later on.

        And in any case, you can't really say that oppositions upon forming government will respect the previous government's saving measures. The Coalition didn't uphold all of Labor's savings when they got into power (tax loopholes closures were dropped, the company tax rate reduction was brought back after it was delayed by Labor and of course their promise to remove the carbon/mining taxes), and I don't expect Labor will uphold all of the Coalition's when/if they go back in.

  • PVA on 10/02/2015 - 22:44

    go wireless then seeing thats faster, 100gig per month is prob about $500 though.

    Try other companies and see if they have adsl2 (they may have their own equipment in the exchange and not use Telstra). You can blame other isp's as well not just Telstra, they can install adsl2 equipment if they wanted to.

    to be honest your 6Mb/s is about what we get on adsl2 (upload is 1Mb/s though)- it all depends on distance from exchange and quality of the copper in the ground. We have no problem streaming etc.
    And can download PS3 games that are 10gig or more in size .

  • Devils Advocate on 10/02/2015 - 22:50

    Yeah, you're faster than me at 5.8MB/s too. You should easily be able to watch youtube videos at 480p with that speed though, maybe a browser issue?

    • cloudy on 11/02/2015 - 12:29

      Yea, I think if you can't watch YouTube with 6MB/s I doubt NBN speeds will help.

      • glide on 11/02/2015 - 14:06
        +4

        Mbit people, Mbit.

  • [Deactivated] on 10/02/2015 - 23:21

    40 minutes is a fair distance from the city. Unfortunately, in areas outside of the metropolis, you are going to get shitty internet speed. The internet speed at my beach house is woeful, both ADSL and 4G (you can only get Telstra phone reception, other carriers don't work at all).

  • [Deactivated] on 10/02/2015 - 23:29
    +1

    Mine on cable intarwebs with Optus, 30+km out of Sydney CBD.

    http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4131408180

    Still feels slow as hell.

    Edit - I mean it though - youtube vids take ages to load, watching iView and SBS On Demand = constant buffering. Stuff lags when loading all the time. Changed browsers from Firefox to Chrome recently. No difference. Takes ages to load bloody Gmail, ffs.

    Uploading is just impossibly slow.

    Maybe I dream of impossibly fast internet?

    • tds on 11/02/2015 - 12:20
      +1

      http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4133106341

      About 15k out of Sydney CBD optus cable. The speeds are fine but while gaming it cuts out sometimes for long enough to DC and leaves my team screwed very annoying :D

  • PJC on 10/02/2015 - 23:43
    +4

    "i bet out of all ozbargainers here im the one with the shittest internet."

    Absolutely not. I am on dialup.

  • IdLikeToBeATree on 10/02/2015 - 23:56

    Yeah not even close to the worst internet on here sorry :P I'm on satellite with a gigantic 1GB to use during "on peak" times (which lasts a day)

    For the rest of the month the speedtest site won't even load (barely even able to get google to load for the last 2 weeks)

  • Cheeper on 11/02/2015 - 03:04

    "-sit and wait for the nbn which is like never gonna come"

    When some politicians decided years ago to roll out the NBN their first priority was to get it to people who already had fast internet. Brilliant idea.. NOT.

    Don't feel bad, a lot of people have no BB or are limited to dial up!!

    For now you may just have to lump it.

  • rickxs on 11/02/2015 - 08:56

    that's usable dude —- get Netlimiter or similar, cut your speed back on your pc when needed ,so the other's can at least browse
    or http://seriousbit.com/netbalancer/

  • cupcake on 11/02/2015 - 11:08
    +1

    No. Your internet is not fast. It should be a lot faster.

    I'm glad you're able to post on Oz Bargain though!

    Have you asked your neighbours about their internet?

  • undercut on 11/02/2015 - 11:19
    +1

    My folks have no access to ADSL in Wildwood VIC 3429. 35km from Melbourne CBD. No plans to roll out NBN in the area either…

    Straya

  • ilikeradiohead on 11/02/2015 - 17:15

    My speed is about 10mbps in South Perth WA. Although apparently we can sign up for NBN which I might be doing soon. Just checked at work in the CBD and apparently it's 95mbps!

    • [Deactivated] on 11/02/2015 - 19:16
      +1

      Just checked at work in the CBD and apparently it's 95mbps!

      :O

      I'm so noob with technology and interwebs… I seriously had no idea what was 'fast' and what was 'slow', or what either extreme ends of the spectrums were in Australia. No clue.

      I honestly thought mine was slow - was on the phone to Optus late last year asking the same noob questions "is there any faster internet? mine is too slow!" like an absolute idiot… and the poor guy just says "yours is quite fast". I was shocked. This? Fast? Really?

      But reading the speeds some of you have here is very.. humbling. Man, any slower would suck enormous balls.

      How do internet speeds even work? Is the speed shown in the test a maximum, and not necessarily the speed we experience? Or is that the actual speed we're experiencing at that very moment?

      (sorry, ilikeradiohead, my post isn't directed at you… I'm just rambling now and it happens to flow on from my response to your post lol. P.S. I like Radiohead too <3 as well as the Talking Heads song by the same name..)

      • ilikeradiohead on 11/02/2015 - 19:53

        With the speed test website I think they just send data up and down and calculate how much is received within a given amount of time. I don't know why you'd have buffering or anything though, I never do even with HD on yt. Netflix through Hola unblocker on chrome also never buffers.

  • PJC on 11/02/2015 - 19:56
    +3

    If I had a pet tortoise, I would name it Dialup. And take it for a daily scrape around the park.

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