Broadband speeds: the fastest providers and how Canberra rates

The Rollout plan for Canberra was woefully designed (probably to suit some Executives in the Communications department and NBN organisation).

How the Southern parts of Tuggeranong (where some customers don’t even get ADSL and have to use dial up) was not prioritised for NBN is beyond the pale.

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/canberras-northsouth-divided-over-internet-surfing-and-the-nbn-20150910-gjjk0k.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-29/canberra-internet-black-spots-not-on-latest-nbn-rollout-plan/7553304

mcs said :

The NBN rollout in Canberra has been bizarrely planned, as it has across the country.

We keep getting flyers in Turner that NBN is now available where we live – that’s all great and fine. The stupidity of it all is that it is FTTN technology, in a suburb where FTTN technology (with comparable speeds – we get 80+mb dl / 20 ul consistently) was already available through Iinet’s VDSL2 network. Now there are 2 networks in our suburb. Why would you prioritise rolling out the network in our area where there are other parts of the city with dreadful internet connections. Just stupid planning from NBNCo and by extension a failure of Governments of both persuasions to get the rollout right.

Believe it or not the doomed Northbourne Flats in Turner has FTTP. I lived there and only knew of myself in my block that took the service up; a good majority of the installations in the whole complex have sat idle the entire time and will now be bulldozed along with the rest of the it.

I applaud that residents there were given the chance for the NBN, but I can’t believe the money spent knowing that within a short time it will just be demolished; there was no mystery as to the fate of the complex at the time. Even with a dodgy installation company from Wollongong (that left open wire connections throughout the complex) it would have cost a packet of money, and with the small uptake by residents can only have been installed at a loss. It’s hard not to look at that as a numbers generating exercise by whoever made that decision, an acceptable loss for political gain.

The NBN rollout in Canberra has been bizarrely planned, as it has across the country.

We keep getting flyers in Turner that NBN is now available where we live – that’s all great and fine. The stupidity of it all is that it is FTTN technology, in a suburb where FTTN technology (with comparable speeds – we get 80+mb dl / 20 ul consistently) was already available through Iinet’s VDSL2 network. Now there are 2 networks in our suburb. Why would you prioritise rolling out the network in our area where there are other parts of the city with dreadful internet connections. Just stupid planning from NBNCo and by extension a failure of Governments of both persuasions to get the rollout right.

@Andrewtt, I think all the highest speeds are in the richest suburbs that got nbn early, and suburbs like Calwell where you are, and Banks where I am, which still have crappy copper lines carrying our internet data, struggle to reach even half the theoretical maximum of ADSL2 (24 Mbps).
On a good day I might get up to 8 Mbps, on a bad day I’ve had it drop down to 400 kbps. And Banks is still not on NBN Co.’s radar. Even when/if it does, I might get a 256Mbps plan. I think it’s time for the ACT government to step in. It’s 2017. In NZ you can get 1000 Mbps plans. It’s time to get out of the dark ages!

Narrabundah-5-6Mbps

Have Optus NBN FTTP in the ACT, right now download speed is 93.97 Mbps, upload is 38.71 Mbps. On Optus 4G I’m getting download 74.30 Mbps, upload 2.23 Mbps.

The average download speed in Canberra was 32.47Mpbs, while upload was 14.12Mpbs.

Canberra might be 5th, but some in the ACT must be getting some great speeds
In Calwell we get 3.24, ie 1/10 of canberras speed