home internet speeds adsl

milo · Guru

home internet speeds adsl

Joe50 · Guru

Wow Milo, that download speed is abysmal ... slower than your upload speed. Suggest you keep checking and also try the test using different servers. If there's no improvement start complaining to TPG. Was Bigpond this slow? As a reference, my result to the same (I assume) Optus server in Sydney is 13.03Mbps download, 5.94Mbps upload, and 50ms ping. I'm near Yeppoon in central Qld on Bigpond with a 4G wireless modem operating on 4G with only one bar of signal strength. I assume you're still on the NSW south coast?

Joe

Muskat55 · Veteran Member

(1)Changing ISPs won't necessarily increase your speeds, a major contributor for ADSL2+ is the condition of the telephone wiring in your residence. (2) Another possibility is there is so parameter in your modem router that is not right. (3) Finally TPG has on its homepage a Google maps site that your can put your address into and see what sort of speeds other TPG customers near you are getting and your theoretical maximum speeds from the exchange closest to you. I've been a TPG customer for years they are OK. I would investigate 3 first then 2 (TPG also has their modem parameters on their site) and as a final resort (1).

03_troopy · Guru

Here's mine Milo

Muskat55 · Veteran Member

I would treat the speed test site simply as a guide. I tried this 3 times each with wildly different results from below 6Mbps to above 10Mbps. The whole point of these sites is to get people to buy their "solutions" for slow speeds, so take them with a grain of salt.

03_troopy · Guru

Muskat55 wrote:
I would treat the speed test site simply as a guide. I tried this 3 times each with wildly different results from below 6Mbps to above 10Mbps. The whole point of these sites is to get people to buy their "solutions" for slow speeds, so take them with a grain of salt.

Yep, would have to agree with you there Muskat.

Cruising Cruze · Guru

Hi Milo

Ping 59 ms
Download 7mb
upload .35 mb

milo · Guru

yeah it was the same when I was with bigpond..

Delta18 · Guru

This is my Speedtest. Work is almost finished in our area on NBN, we should be connecting fairly soon I hope.

Gundog · Guru

Hi Guys whilst this is not about ADSL, currently we are connected to NBN fibre service via iinet, we purchased the modem router from them when we signed up, it was almost a year when I thought this is not much faster than ADSL. Ran heaps of test using those speed test sites and everyone gave a different report.

To their credit iinet sent me a new modem/router the results were the same, they then supplied a different modem/router no luck again, during this period I was given a web address that was more accurate with it speed test.

If you have a fibre NBN service you don't actually need a Modem/Router, you can plug the computer directly into the NBN box via a network cable, when we ran the test the speed delivered was near on perfect, from that I decided that all I needed was a good high speed wireless router with a WAN gigabit port and 2.4/5 ghz wireless, after setting up with the new router no issues with speed.

iinet provided a full refund on the hardware I had purchased from them and a discount on services charges for the next 6 months.

I suspect unless you buy a high end Modem/Router you may encounter speed issues, I recall when I was with TPG I always had good speed perhaps it was because I ran a separate modem and router.

I will search for the web address for the speed test, if I find it will post it for you

PJK · Senior Member

Living in Bellerive, Tasmania, we are on the NBN.
At the changeover, our service provider offered 3 different speed settings, at 3 different costs.
Being of Scottish extraction, we opted for the slowest and cheapest.

I have occasionally tested our speeds and can say with confidence that we have all the above beat by about double.

Ping - 22 ms.
Download - 19.35 Mbs
Upload - 1.96 Mbs.

Peter
PJK

03_troopy · Guru

PJK wrote:
Living in Bellerive, Tasmania, we are on the NBN.
At the changeover, our service provider offered 3 different speed settings, at 3 different costs.
Being of Scottish extraction, we opted for the slowest and cheapest.

I have occasionally tested our speeds and can say with confidence that we have all the above beat by about double.

Ping - 22 ms.
Download - 19.35 Mbs
Upload - 1.96 Mbs.

Peter
PJK

Which is about 20% of the capablilty.

PJK · Senior Member

03_troopy wrote:
PJK wrote:
Living in Bellerive, Tasmania, we are on the NBN.
At the changeover, our service provider offered 3 different speed settings, at 3 different costs.
Being of Scottish extraction, we opted for the slowest and cheapest.

I have occasionally tested our speeds and can say with confidence that we have all the above beat by about double.

Ping - 22 ms.
Download - 19.35 Mbs
Upload - 1.96 Mbs.

Peter
PJK
Which is about 20% of the capablilty.

Correct Troopy, but sufficient for our needs, and cheaper (but much faster) than our old connection.

We actually save about $40 per month with the NBN / home phone bundle.

More for less is always a good deal.

But not all was good during the changeover - they neglected to tell us that our monitored alarm system would need a $600 upgrade, and that the phone had to be plugged into the NBN box where it terminates at the house connection. Either that, of you have to have the house rewired for the alarm and phone lines.

Peter

PJK

03_troopy · Guru

True...

milo · Guru

my modem is a Netgear N600 modem/ router.. .wasn't exactly cheep earlier this year
when I bought it...

should I try another mode?

Cruising Cruze · Guru

No Milo

It is just that you to far away from your Telecom exchange Box that you don't get the speed you want

Cheers John

Ps maybe you get more luck when they put the new NBN network in