Apr 19
Internet Speed tests
Helped Tim reinstall WordPress on fishfinger.co.nz.
Tim introduced me to speedtest.net and showed how even though he gets good performance for local Auckland links his Slingshot connection is reduced to a slow trickle when trying to connect overseas. (Tim has provided the numbers to back this up.)
| Auckland | 3.94 Mb/s Download | 0.14 Mb/s Upload |
| San Jose | 0.19 Mb/s Download | 0.13 Mb/s Upload |
| Sydney | 0.39 Mb/s Download | 0.13 Mb/s Upload |
So, back at home I’ve tried this out with my Orcon connection, but I’m kind of surprised by the results. I have a amazing connection speed of 3.63 Mb/s with Salekhard on the Artic Circle in Russia? Better even than the 3.24 Mb/s to WorldxChange here in Auckland? Connection speeds to San Jose, Johannesburg, and Sydney are pretty good, but the connection to Lisbon is a slacker at 0.76 Mb/s. Can anyone explain what’s going on in Salekhard? What are your speeds like?
I’ve been using my old ADSL router for my connection, but I also have a ADSL2+ router from Orcon which I will try next and then update this blog.
Results:
| Auckland | 3.24 Mb/s down | 0.16 Mb/s up |
| San Jose, USA | 2.45 Mb/s down | 0.15 Mb/s up |
| Salekhard, Russia | 3.63 Mb/s down | 0.12 Mb/s up |
| Johannesburg, SA | 3.21 Mb/s down | 0.12 Mb/s up |
| Sydney | 3.24 Mb/s down | 0.16 Mb/s up |
| Lisbon, Portugal | 0.76 Mb/s down | 0.14 Mb/s up |
update: Changing over to the Orcon supplied ADSL2+ router was definitely worthwhile. Much faster for the sites nearby (Auckland, Sydney, San Jose), but sites far away are actually slower (Salekhard, Johannesburg). But thinking about Salekard and J’burg it may have just been the time of day when I tested them (early afternoon NZ time, early morning their time) there wasn’t much other traffic? Connection to Lisbon is still awful.
| Auckland | 9.89 Mb/s down | 0.86 Mb/s up |
| San Jose, USA | 5.25 Mb/s down | 0.80 Mb/s up |
| Salekhard, Russia | 2.26 Mb/s down | 0.12 Mb/s up |
| Johannesburg, SA | 3.05 Mb/s down | 0.26 Mb/2 up |
| Sydney, Aus | 9.88 Mb/s down | 0.81 Mb/s up |
| Lisbon, Portugal | 0.49 Mb/s down | 0.40 Mb/s up |
Finally got my wireless working here too.
April 20th, 2009 at Monday, 6:58 am
But then this morning, Internet wasn’t working at all. bah!
April 20th, 2009 at Monday, 10:02 am
There is good speed to Salekhard, Russia because no one lives there. Their pipes are almost empty! (Salekhard, pop. 36,827 (2002))
April 20th, 2009 at Monday, 8:25 pm
Net is working again! We should move to Salekhard for high bandwidth and Northern Lights.
May 28th, 2009 at Thursday, 10:50 am
Hello,
I have a stupid question – I am considering to move to NZ and would like to know, what is the average and maximum network speed (dsl, cable) you can get?
My best result here in Germany (Muich) was around 30 mbit/s http://www.speedtest.net/result/447503227.png – today I tested the connection to Wellingtown and got this: http://www.speedtest.net/result/482922686.png – the connection to Auckland sucks totally: http://www.speedtest.net/result/482924258.png :-p
Btw. – what is THE IT city in NZ? I am myself a network engineer (also linux and bsd stuff)? Where can you get good money?
May 28th, 2009 at Thursday, 10:53 am
Shame on me… WellingtoWn…
Citizens of Wellington, dear NZ, I hope you will excuse me for my mistake…
May 29th, 2009 at Friday, 6:13 pm
Julian: Speedtest.net will give you some of that, just search for New Zealand on http://speedtest.net/global.php.
For me it seems to vary a bit. Tonight I’m getting 10.3 down, 0.8 up. http://www.speedtest.net/result/483863902.png.
Most IT work is in Auckland or Wellington. Auckland is the biggest city in New Zealand companies normally have their head offices here. Wellington is the capital, government departments have their head offices there. Look at seek.co.nz as an example of a job site.