OK, new NBN aerial installed. Download better, upload worse. Technician said that I may need a new router........

4 o'clock in the morning and ....



A lot better but I'll bet it doesn't stay that way, we'll see

Carl D wrote on Nov 21^st, 2022 at 7:56am:


Interesting Carl...

Your FTTP speeds don't look all that crash hot? I'd have expected much
faster than 54 down and 18 up.

We're paying for alleged 50/20 speeds with Telstra, but we've never
even got close to that—our best ever was 31/12.

I've just got acknowledgement from the TIO that they've pushed my
complaint on to Telstra in order to force them to correct their non
compliance speed-wise. 

If Telstra can't correct the fault, they'll have to give me a discount in
future, and possibly a refund for past under-performance.

—I live in hope LOL.

Same speeds again today ... seems it's fixed but they're not very high numbers are they? After seeing what you guys are getting, a hundred or more, I'll do some research to find out just how much speed I'm supposed to be getting from Westnet satellite internet

Download Mbps
11.46

Upload Mbps
0.38

So this is what I've concluded about the extremely slow speed problem that went on for nearly a week.

1} It could have been maintenance, but you usually get a notification for that, I got none

2) The satellite may have been interfered with in some way or another

3) Westnet may have engaged in speed "throttling"

4) Hackers

But two things are certain, it wasn't my equipment, nor was it bad weather

Marla wrote on Nov 24^th, 2022 at 5:40am:

It doesn't make any difference which ISP you use, or how
much you pay, your internet speed is governed by how
it gets to your residence.

In my case it's FTTN, and then 250m of copper pair lying
in a trench filled with muddy water.

I could pay $95 a month or $55 a month, and it'd make
not one iota of difference to my speed.      And it sux.

AusGeoff wrote on Nov 24^th, 2022 at 1:14pm:



Well, it's how it gets to your computer ... things can go wrong in your house with modem, Wifi, interference from household appliances, too many devices using your internet ... these problems added to copper wire outside your house means you'll get very little signal at your computer

https://www.iinet.net.au/internet-products/broadband/speed-test/ ... there's a short video in this link explaining NBN speeds


My satellite connection is just a dish picking up a signal and usually only real bad weather is the cause of the internet speed dropping. There was no bad weather and yet I could only get 0.08 speed. The problem ended as suddenly as it started, so I reckon my provider was fooling around with it or maybe the Russians were hacking the satellite lol, you never know, we don't get told anything

But yes, my cheap internet has always had a reasonable speed. It wasn't the "cheapness" that caused the 0.08 problem, it was something else entirely

UnSubRocky wrote on Nov 28^th, 2022 at 4:05am:


Not sure, but here's a link to read ....

https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-stop-constant-buffering-on-streaming-v...


My signal is still playing up, not as bad as it was a week ago, but it's still not right, some things are blacked out and images take a little while to load