Internet speeds: Australia ranks 44th, study cites direction of NBN as part of problem - Polidicks

[QUOTE]A US study has delivered an unwelcome finding about Australian internet speeds, finding that they are well behind the international pack. One engineering expert says the nation will continue to tumble down in world rankings if the roll-out of the National Broadband Network (NBN) continues in its current form. The State of the Internet Report from cloud service provider Akamai ranks Australia 44th for average connection speed. The US-based company produces a quarterly state of the internet report looking at connection speeds and broadband adoption around the world. Dr Mark Gregory, a network engineering expert from RMIT University, said the Akamai report is a reputable review. "In the latest report, Australia has dropped a couple of places down to the 44th position, which is a pretty big drop really over such a short period of time," he said.[/QUOTE] :( [url]http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandscience/internet-speeds-australia-ranks-44th-study-cites-direction-of-nbn-as-part-of-problem/ar-AA83y2t?ocid=mailsignout[/url]

And this was entirely predictable at the election. Why must the world be so shit? Why must people blind themselves to appease insanity?

Who else ranked what on that study?

[QUOTE=asteroidrules;46912699]Who else ranked what on that study?[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/[/url] read it yourself, nerd [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Rude" - Orkel))[/highlight]

Well we aren't the worst at least.

Just days away till I get that juicy 100/40mbits speeds from the nbn. So glad im in an area that already had fibre now before the current government fucks up the rollout

living in an area where the current telecommunications exchange is dominated by ADSL2+.... where as literally less than 250m down the main road there's a new estate that has brand new NBN cabiling, I'm not surprised. Not to forget most of our data to Europe / South East Asia goes through one cable (SMW3 aka SeaMeWe 3), I'm not surprised that our average speed has dropped. Telecommunications infrastructure in Australia has only just started going through a reform of recabiling with fiber and rebuilding exchanges, replacing copper which in some cases is so old that it's as old as the federation itself. I'd say it won't be until 2025 or later (depending if the incumbent federal & state governments don't screw this up), where the average speed will be comparable to nations such as Sweden, Germany, Denmark, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, following this fiber optic cable rollout and also 3 new subsea cables going from the west coast to Singapore.

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Things like this really make me disappointed in our government.

It's funny that New Zealand with its even more separate and distinct geographical position still manages to have better rx speed than Australia.

[QUOTE=mr apple;46916256]Just days away till I get that juicy 100/40mbits speeds from the nbn. So glad im in an area that already had fibre now before the current government fucks up the rollout[/QUOTE] I've spent my entire life with a 50kb/s, 2gB monthly limit and when I finally got NBN i capped it in 5 days. Back to the data discipline that has ruled most of my life. [editline]13th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Jebus;46917096]Things like this really make me disappointed in our government.[/QUOTE] Honestly, getting a solid fibre connection for the majority of the population in a country as sparse as Australia is sort of a difficult thing to do efficiently. I don't agree with the government scrapping it but I can see why they did.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46919897]... Didn't they want to fiber fed the exchanges and cabinets instead? I'm not quite up to date on what their doing with the fiber now. But I'm sure that's what I keep hearing, cause there are quite a lot of cabinets and exchanges that are fiber fed but that only brings up VDSL and more capacity capabilities, it still doesn't help if your copper line is long and your distance to the connected cabinet/exchange is long too. Also doesn't help if your in house wiring is shot to hell.[/QUOTE] Really the only thing that the Labor and Liberal plans differed on was what the connection to the house was, they're both upgrading the network to be fibre based. Under the Labor plan the connection between your house to the local node was fibre, under the Liberals it's either the old copper phoneline (Using VDSL or ADSL), coaxial cable, or fibre if you pay extra. Even if you stick on plain ADSL you'll still get better speeds because they're moving the connection point from the local exchange to the local node, which will either be on your street or very close to your street (Few hundred meters max due to how *DSL works) Hardware wise the liberal NBN isn't that bad, actually better in some places (FTTP is treated more like ADSL is now, so you could buy your own modem vs. being forced to use the NBN provided one), the biggest issue with it is that upgrading to FTTN is stupid (They keep pointing to FTTN roll outs from other countries, ignoring that they started years ago and are now planning FTTP), since by the time it's done we'll really need FTTP, and this kind of stop/start work while they change plans just wastes money and slows everything down.

Because Tony Abbott has an issue with fibre for some reason, at least he didn't get his way with his earlier plan (Scrap the NBN entirely and replace it with a purely 4G rollout, which would have been physically impossible) Turnbull has to trumpet the party line, but his plan honestly is pretty good if you view it as a transitional thing, the major work (Upgrading the network) gets done either way, and it makes it easier for a FTTP roll-out in the future.

This does not surprise me. On another note, can anyone name a good country to move to? I'm considering UK and Canada. [QUOTE=TheDecryptor;46926402]Because Tony Abbott has an issue with fibre for some reason, at least he didn't get his way with his earlier plan (Scrap the NBN entirely and replace it with a purely 4G rollout, which would have been physically impossible) Turnbull has to trumpet the party line, but his plan honestly is pretty good if you view it as a transitional thing, the major work (Upgrading the network) gets done either way, and it makes it easier for a FTTP roll-out in the future.[/QUOTE]Abbot is messing with the NBN so Rupert Murdock's Foxtel can be number 1 despite the fact it's a dying business model. That's why he wanted to flog over crowded wireless networks.

It rained yesterday and we lost all internet for an hour or so with intermittent faults in phone calls and internet over the following 5 hours. The NBN is what we need, fibre will stop all these stupid issues that keep frying the internet in my area. I'm not even country, I'm in the suburbs, not even that far from Melbourne...

[QUOTE=mr apple;46916256]Just days away till I get that juicy 100/40mbits speeds from the nbn. So glad im in an area that already had fibre now before the current government fucks up the rollout[/QUOTE] Moving to Brisbane on monday, my accommodation is literally two blocks away from the NBN :suicide:

[QUOTE=spkypwnsuall;46928263]It rained yesterday and we lost all internet for an hour or so with intermittent faults in phone calls and internet over the following 5 hours. The NBN is what we need, fibre will stop all these stupid issues that keep frying the internet in my area. I'm not even country, I'm in the suburbs, not even that far from Melbourne...[/QUOTE] what you need to do is call your ISP to fix that. My ADSL line had those issues, tech from Telstra came out and fixed it within two weeks, back on 15mbps and 100% stable connection

[QUOTE=Tasm;46928368]what you need to do is call your ISP to fix that. My ADSL line had those issues, tech from Telstra came out and fixed it within two weeks, back on 15mbps and 100% stable connection[/QUOTE] Yeah, I get 350kb/s on a good day, and iiNet said we [I]might [/I]come out in 2 days. Even then we can't guarantee we'll fix it. We had a new ADSL line put in only a few months ago, already dead. Apparently NBN isn't any more helpful on the customer service side, but I'll put up with it for the speed.

The only area in Ipswich that has NBN is Goodna and nobody wants to go out there unless you're looking to get stabbed

[QUOTE=Luxuria;46916851]please send help someone import me into the us[/QUOTE] If you think our internet is better you're sure going to be in for a shock.

[QUOTE=draugur;46929630]If you think our internet is better you're sure going to be in for a shock.[/QUOTE] import me into an area with google fiber then

[QUOTE=spkypwnsuall;46928486]Yeah, I get 350kb/s on a good day, and iiNet said we [I]might [/I]come out in 2 days. Even then we can't guarantee we'll fix it. We had a new ADSL line put in only a few months ago, already dead. Apparently NBN isn't any more helpful on the customer service side, but I'll put up with it for the speed.[/QUOTE] They have to fix it, pretty sure "might" is just an excuse for if they find nothing wrong with your line and realize it's congestion at the exchange because of their shitty hardware. Just keep harassing them about it and they'll come out and do something. Also something doesn't seem right if they gave you a new line and it died, they last a very long time.