[clug] OT: Horrific speeds on NBN

Ian Bardsley ifb777 at tpg.com.au
Mon Aug 3 09:25:28 UTC 2015


On 03/08/15 16:49, Carlo Hamalainen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My parents have a new nbn connection, a 25/5 plan from TPG. Download
> speeds are very different based on the site being used:
>
> * Downloading HD video from youtube using youtube-dl: 2.2 MB/s
> * Downloading a tarball from my EC2 host (US-east): 80 KB/s
> * Apt-get update using au.archive.ubuntu.com: 80 KB/s
> * Apt-get update using us.archive.ubuntu.com: 80 KB/s
> * Wget of
> http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu-precise_4.3.0.37-1_i386.deb: 80
> KB/s
> * Wget of http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/100meg.test: 400 KB/s
>
> Meanwhile I can reliably upload via scp to my EC2 host at 600 KB/s.
>
> Does TPG run some kind of transparent proxy that lets Youtube traffic
> through and demotes everything else to worse-than-ADSL2 speeds?
>
> Is this the kind of thing that the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman
> would like to hear about?
>
> --
> Carlo Hamalainen
> http://carlo-hamalainen.net
>
>
>
Have you tried changing the mirror?  I generally get better download 
speeds from internode or optus mirrors than anything else.

Not on NBN yet though, just ADSL2

Regards



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