NZ Herald online survey on Iternet Broadband perfomance, send them your results...

Run the speed test from the link they give and send them your results....

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10453318&ref=rss

 

Done....

Its just on 9pm, and have taken the speed test.

ISP : IHUG
Plan : 128k up / Unlimited down (Broadband 3)
Upload speed : 51 kb/s
Download Speed : 619 kb/s
Ping : 122ms

Now, I cannot blame the slow speed entirely on IHUG, as the lines around
here seem to let water in heck of a lot, so soon as it rains, my router
loses the connection and reconnects at anything between 5000k and 256k -
usually the latter. It has been like this for about 8 months, and my
previous ISP seemed to be able to get Telecom to reset my port which would
fix the issue until the next decent bit of rain. IHUG have done the same
once, but obviously there is a bigger issue here than just my port.
So really, my connection is pathetic. Its not reliable and is slow as hell.
I have emailed IHUG regarding this, but heard nothing back at this time -
thing that Im wondering about now though, who do I complain to for faulty
lines as I have left Telecom as my telco and moved my line to IHUG etc for
all telecommunications. Is it IHUG or Telecoms responsibility ?
Friend of mine not even a kilometre away is with IHUG and gets 6mb
connections all the time and no disconnections. It bites. Fix it. Someone.
Please.

 

I'm in Wellington region on TC cable. Connecting to the suggested
Aukland server has given:

Download: 2.147Mbps

Upload: 1.758Mbps

TC tell me they're about to upgrade me to 4Mbps during the next few
days for no extra charge.

My cable connection costs me $29 per month.

How am I doing, do you reckon?

 

I'm in Wellington region on TC cable. Connecting to the suggested
Aukland server has given:

Download: 2.147Mbps

Upload: 1.758Mbps

Ping: 32ms

TC tell me they're about to upgrade me to 4Mbps during the next few
days for no extra charge.

My cable connection costs me $29 per month.

How am I doing, do you reckon?

 

ISP: Orcon
Upload: 129 kb/s
Download: 4010 kb/s
Ping: 143 ms

 

Wanna swap ?

 

Hi there,

Very unusual results. I got 4000 kbps from Napier, 2600 kbps from
Auckland, 12600 kbps from Adelaide, 12200 kbps from Sydney, but less
than 3000 kbps from Brisbane where I live!

--
Kind regards,

Chris Wilkinson, Brisbane, Australia.
"Maybe politicians should ask the people whether
or not they wanted all these wars"...

 

Yeah, I'd take that upload speed! Nice.

Down 3630 kb/s
Up 124 kb/s

 

10pm
ISP:Actrix
Plan: 256 kb / 128 kb
Download: 2596 kb/s
Upload:127 kb/s
Ping: 177 ms (hey I'm in Palmerston North)

 

On Ihug which has had a massive slowdown in the last 4 or 5 days.

10.45pm
Down 357k
Up 646k


on the Napier link which use to get 5600 down and over 600 up I';m now
getting 330 down and 644 up.
Something is seriously screwed at the moment on Ihug.


Very interesting after more testing all download speeds are down to below
10% of what they were before last Thursday.

 

Sounds good. Do you unlimited transfers or a daily/monthly cap.

For the record.....

Actrix Go Large

Download: 2255 kbps

Upload: 128 kbps

Ping: 132ms

Miguel

 

And what plan are you on ;-)

 

5G per month which is always more than enough because I'm not
interested in movie downloads and other bandwidth-hungry material.
Occasionally I Skype with pics, but most times audio-only discussion
is sufficient.

I wouldn't pay one cent for your upload speed, it's terrible.

What do you pay per month for your connection?

 

$49.95 per month.

Go Large is unlimited transfers at (unofficially) 256/128
On average I'd usually transfer about 50-60 GB per month.
Ratio is about 35GB down 25GB up.

TV shows mostly. Old and new. Torrents and the aMule network.
No games or movies cos my attention span is one hour tops.

Regards
Miguel

 

That can't be right! I see on TV several times an hour that Ihug (with the
big smiley-face) are just the bee's-knees. It has to be true or it wouldn't
be on telly. ;-)

 

Just their 5GB cheapie. Obviously I'm quite pleased with the
price/performance ratio after what I regularly hear in these forums.

 

Have continued this thread on Pcworld forum.

 

I'd love to see what results the nzherald get out of it and what conclusions
they get. As I own the website which the tests are done from (speedtest.net
uses www.nzdsl.co.nz for the tests) I can see all the tests been done and
over the last couple of years I have over 2,000,000 speedtests done on the
website (mostly from NZ).

Thanks
Craig

 

Six pages of comments from readers:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10454227

 

And the Survey results:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10454199