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Netflix ISP rankings

Exetel is best for having top speeds for Netflix content.

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Netflix recently released its ISP rankings for October.

It showed Exetel as having top speeds for Netflix content at 3.54 Mbps.

iiNet was in #6 with 3.40 Mbps.

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  1. My ADSL2 connection delivers 9-10Mbs to the router, after I forced Telstra to fix bad wiring, and a junction box where water gets in when it rains, that their technicians installed. Netflix’s figures look to be to the device, which means that the home network is the limiting factor. That’s why they are all identical and meaningless –. it’s the average wifi speed that they are measuring.

  2. It really is a meaningless figure unless the mix of connection technologies the ISP (RSP)’s clients use is also mentioned. Every wondered why Telstra is always beaten in these types of rankings? It’s because Telstra has a hell of a lot, arguably the lion’s share of, ADSL connections with line speeds all over the place. Its not because of Telstra’s network being poor, regardless of what one may think of Telstra. The same sort of underlying speed issue is happening with nbn VDSL (FTTN/FTTB).

    Netflix ranking is not a way to determine the quality of an ISP, only how well its current mix of clients and access technologies deal with accessing Netflix. Sign up with one of the top ranked ISPs but do so via a connection that ‘sucks’ and so will your Netflix experience.

    1. If Stan and Foxtel also released their speed rankings of incoming connections, it would have substantially different results.

      Issues with the NBN technologies are one reason why it’s a good idea to take advantage of no contract plans, even if you do have to pay a couple of hundred in setup fees, it’s worth it not to be locked in for 2 years.

      The NBN is working to fix it’s issues, and the switch off of ADSL exchanges will help later on, but if the NBN doesn’t work for you, use an alternate technology like fixed wireless, or even 4G. You may pay more, but you do get what you pay for here.

      If you go with the cheapest possible NBN plan you can find, you will get performance to match. To get decent NBN performance you need to paying greater than $90 a month.

      1. Not to turn this into a nbn thread, but nbn can’t fix the underlying problems with speed variations on its FTTB/FTTN operations as it’s the very nature of xDSL. Speed decreases with wire distance. The only fix, which will IMO never be implemented, would be to migrate the entire FTTN/B operation to FTTH or FTTC (FTTDp) which effectively removes distance from the equation by making it very small.

        FTTP/HFC/Wireless are the only nbn connection methods that currently guarantee ‘line rates’ (which is a very different thing to throughput). Order a 25/5 service on those three platforms and that is exactly what your ‘line rate’ will be. Order 25/5 on FTTN/FTTB and God only knows what rate your line will actually achieve.

        1. NBN FTTN will deliver 70Mbps and it’s good for about 300m if the line is good, what’s more it will only make up 25% of connections, the rest being FTTB, FTTK and HFC. The UK has cabled 90% of the country with FTTN and their standard connections are 40/20 Mbps. And that’s old technology. The NBN FTTN system can be upgraded to 120Mbps. The UK’s is planning up to 350Mbps and Germany 250Mbps over filtered frequency jumping ADLS over short distances of copper (FTTK) saving FTTB for 1Gb. My ADL2 connection delivers 9-10 Mbps (after I finally forced Telstra to fix some bad wiring their technicians did and junction box where water was getting in).

          1. Unfortunately a lot of people live outside of the magic 300 metres ‘as the cable runs’. There is a seemingly never ending supply of people on various technology forums bemoaning the fact that there is a node ‘just outside my house’ yet due to the way Telstra’s wires are laid out, they are connected to a node some 700+ metres away with line rates commensurate. Telstra stated clearly and explicitly in 2003 (?) that the CAN was not suitable for high speed data due to the layout and would require ‘significant reengineering’ to be made fit for such purpose. As a result the network was declared EOL and terminal maintenance commenced with a stated objective of migrating to a fibre network by the end of 2018. This is all before nbn was a twinkle in the Minister’s eye.

        2. there is no such thing as a technology called NBN
          there is such thing as fiber, and this technology is being rolled out by a government roll out scheme called ‘NBN’

          there are many fiber provides in Australia – I’ve been connected to fiber since around 2010, through opticomm – way before NBN was a thing….

          stop calling fiber “NBN” – thats like using the word “mazda” instead of “car”.

          and because I can…. my speed test

          1. Don’t know what you’re on about. In the comment(s) above “nbn” (lower case as preferred by the re-branded co) is used to refer to the company not the technology.

            And you obviously couldn’t, btw…

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