Internet speed upgrade
Our home Internet got a nice speed boost over the weekend.
Last year the National Broadband Network (NBN Co), who manage most of the wholesale broadband infrastructure in Australia, announced that they’d be upgrading the speeds on their wholesale internet plans, including the 100/20Mbps plan. This is what we’ve been using since switching our ISP to Leaptel and being upgraded to Fibre to our house last year.
Then last month I got an email from Leaptel confirming that indeed our plan was being upgraded to 500/50Mbps on September 14th.
I have Alex Justesen’s Speedtest Tracker running on my Synology NAS, so it has captured a nice record of our Internet speeds:
That jump in the early hours of Sunday morning is really nice to see!
Have I noticed any difference? It’s too early to say, though I think now the bottlenecks for speed are either going to be internally within our house (some older CAT 5 cabling and/or WiFi signal strength), or further up the line waiting for content from some remote server. But it is nice that our link to the outside world is now unlikely to be the significant constraint.
I’m a happy Leaptel customer and would recommend them. Use this link and we both get a $50 credit.