How fast is the average Canberran's internet connection?

1643 up, 343 down. 3 mobile broadband. i hardly dl anything though, basically use my laptop for surfing – so the speed suits me. not willing to pay landline costs for adsl either.

Nosey, try again.

I’m on the Melba exchange (like nathan) and I also get upwards of 10000kbps 😀 (like nathan), but I’m with Exetel ADSL2+ (unlike nathan).

Nosey: Good or bad? It’s….strange – that you’re getting so much better upload speed than down.

447 kbps down and 1711 kbps up.

Is this good or bad??

I have no idea.

I’m on Optusnet broadband..

Would the other Internode users who have posted results, please indicate their suburb too.

I’m on the Monash exchange – live about 1km away as the crow flies.

Speedtest to Sydney was 7394kb/s down, 822kb/s up. 19ms ping
http://www.speedtest.net/result/379470640.png

I am on iinet Naked DSL in Belconnen

Actual synch speed – 8958800/1005000

In the real world I max out at ~930KB/s when downloading Ubuntu updates from iinet’s FTP, which translates to ~7440kb/s – very close to speedtest’s result

Hi RandomGit,

Mine’s 10783kbps down and 685kbps up. I’m with TPG on ADSL2+, also only a few blocks from Melba exchange.

5086 kb/s down, 519 up* (Internode ADSL2+ – O’Connor).

Would the other Internode users who have posted results, please indicate their suburb too.

*Am currently listening to live streaming radio from BBC UK along with a dodgy EPL feed to go with.

Peter: Got Linux?

I am running an old duron 850, with 384 mb ram. speed of internet means jack to me. still slow to process, anyway.

Damn, 292 kb/s down and 164 kb/s up.

I’m on TPG ADSL 2+ and one block away from Melba exchange.

This sucks…. oh hang on.

*shuts down trailer downloads*

1631 and 359.

Still quite crappy given most peeps are in the 8000 zone

7633 down
427 up

Using the default Sydney one it gave me, on Netspeed Transact 8mb phase 1.

Best sustained download I’ve ever seen was a combined ~1mb/s using rapidshare premium, aside from Microsoft, Apple, Adobe etc who typically max the connection out. Xbox Live does a good job of that too. Much faster during the day than at night obviously.

Offpeak, rarely break 100kb/s combined.

Costs a ton more than ADSL, but I’m squre in the middle of the ADSL blackspot that is the inner north…

Some interesting stats folks! As as for welkin31… are you on 2400b bps dialup? 🙂

I have a more pertinent question: How long is a piece of string?

1391 down
210 up

http://www.speedtest.net/result/379085743.png

Not bad for 1500/256 in Ngunnawal through TPG.

When I moved to Gungahlin (Ngunnawal) in 1994, I was informed Telstra and Uni of Canberra were going to wire up the whole district, as part of a trial to see how putting everyone online would affect their community. It was a large factor in why my wife and I chose Ngunnawal. Of course, you know the next bit of the story, with the change of Federal government meaning the funding vanished, and from then on, internet access has been woeful in Gungahlin ever since.
For most of the decade of Howard rule, Senator Lundy was active in fighting Telstra to get better connectivity for Gungahlin, but even now it’s still pretty woeful by comparison with other areas of Canberra.
As an aside, if net access is important to you, never buy a house without looking into the availability. On the fringes of the Civic exchange (North Lyneham, Hackett and especially the newer regions of Watson) they’re often unable to get broadband of any colour. I’ve heard some newer areas of Gungahlin (especially Harrison) suffer a similar fate.

Or move away from Gunghalin and find a decent ISP :-\

BenMac said :

Anyone know when, or even if, ADSL2 will be available in the area?

Ask Telstra….. If you are connected direct to the Crace exchange itself, then you should be able to get it. (However, thats parts of Watson, Downer, North Kaleen, some areas of Lyneham and thats about it.) Otherwise you are off a RIM, or on the Gungahlin sub-exchange. Until Telstra allow third parties to install DSLAMs into the Gungahlin sub-exchange, other ISPs will not be able to offer ADSL2 up here – and then only those directly cabled to the sub-exchange. Everyone else is off a RIM. Telstra/Big Pond do offer ADSL2 on RIMs (I believe – but there are restrictions/conditions), but you will be paying a stupid amount to get it. Other ISPs are starting to be able to resell Telstra ADSL2 (Internode just have), but again, the price difference is like $60 vs $90 (and an extra 5GB of quota).

I think TransACT may ADSL2 DSLAMs installed in the Gungahlin sub-exchanged (no idea how they managed to achieve that!!)

Short answer, if you want ADLS2, go to Big Pond and prepare to pay $$$$s.

4767 down, 624 up – ADSL2+ with Netspace. Not too bad considering I’m almost as far as I can be from my exchange (about 2Km).

Ive got 2039 down and 227 up not to bad for transact

2900k down, 450kb up about 4km from exchange

Old place was 18000down and 1100up less than 1k from exchange

Iinet adsl2

*points and laughs at the nerds*

1281Kb/s down
191Kb/s up

ADSL Internode. I’m on the Crace exchange which tells you that ADSL2 is available. After trying to get ADSL2 from Internode they told me I am on a sub-exchange, along with most of the Gungahlin area and ADSL2 isn’t available.

Anyone know when, or even if, ADSL2 will be available in the area?

8072 kb/s down, 1031 kb/s up. This is with Internode ADSL2+

6740 kb/s down
767 kb/s up

We’re with Internode and moving a few hundred metres further away from the exchange (at least, I think we are!) in the next week or so, so it will be interesting to see what impact that has. No real loss of internet speed was Mr Wednesday’s top concern when househunting, so hopefully it will remain around the same.

9181kb/s down, 1081kb/s up. Internode ADSL2+ Annex M.

Normally it’s a little faster than this (in both directions), I’m wondering if it’s a little slower today because of all those people testing out their new computer games that santa gave them yesterday.

Optus ADSL2+ about 2km from exchange gives me 5400 down and 650 up. Used to average about 6500/850 when speedtest had a Canberra option on the site.

Speed tests often give inaccurate results, as they’re dependent on how many hops there are between you and the speed testing server.
Having said that though, I (today) moved from being connected via yless4u’s dish-and-tower setup outside Bungendore to being on a 8Mb ADSL connection, about 300m from the telephone exchange, and it’s a much happier setup.
The majority of ADSL customers I have at work though (I work for an ISP) are on the 256K or 512K connections (probably because of cost) whereas the TransACT users we deal with are almost all on the 1Mb-2Mb connections. Bigger than that usually means they’re hard-core gamers/torrenters and are prepared to pay for the extra speed (especially on the upload side)

6924kb/s down; 824kb/s up. Iinet ADSL2.

Ant – there used to be a Canberra link (Velocity hosted it IIRC). Not sure where it’s gone. Used to get closer to 8MB down when using it.

The answer will be “it varies”.

Check out http://www.adsl2exchanges.com.au/heatmap-state.php?State=ACT for line speed reports.

TPG also produce an interactive map ( http://www.tpg.com.au/maps/ ) of the speeds available from their exchanges, which will be similar for all other ISPs as speed is determined by the cabling between the exchange and the customer.

6942 kb/s down
324 kb/s up

via Netspace (8000/384 (ADSL1)
at Ngunnawal ACT – Crace Exchange (RIM connected)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/378976053.png

2343 kb/s down and 479 up
iinet in downer

1318 kb/s download, 113 kb/s upload. Iinet, it made me do it through Sydney though. Doesn’t canberra exist? I’m quite happy with my speeds I must say, things jump up quickly.

1136kbps download, 125kbps up. (1500/128 ADSL1.) To go any faster will involve paying stupid amounts of money to Telstra directly or indirectly. I am on the Gungahlin sub-exchange which Telstra won’t allow anyone else to access it, so Internode, iiNet, Optus etc can’t install their DSLAMs there. So 1.5Mbps is it for the moment.

7616 kb up
734 kb down….

I also have internode ADSL/2+

Transact Phase 1

1mb down
118k up

I suppose that’s what I pay for. Seems a lot slower some days.

8mb down and 450Kb up.

7843 kb/s down, 793 up. Internode ADSL2+.

Download 217 kbs: Upload 45 kbs
Iinet in Nicholls
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