NZ broadband beats Australia again

Saturday, 13 September 2014, 3:12 pm
Article: Digitl

More evidence that New Zealand's broadband is accelerating past Australia's network. Local web performance measuring company TrueNet compared the speed of downloading Australian and New Zealand websites from PCs in Australia and New Zealand.

[caption id="attachment_19633" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Comparing Australian and New Zealand web page download speeds[/caption]

The results are conclusive. They show New Zealanders can now download Australian web pages faster than people on the other side of the Tasman Sea. TrueNet says: "Results from any NZ probe are likely to be much better than from one in Australia."

TrueNet puts New Zealand's better performance down to the nationwide network of fibre-fed road side cabinets. New Zealand completed its network  in 2011 while Australia has only recently begun testing cabinets.

Now New Zealand is moving to the next generation with a fibre to the premises network that promises to further increase the speed performance.

A story I wrote for PC Magazine last month found New Zealand has an average download speed of 21 Mbps compared with 16 Mbps in Australia. That's a huge difference, enough to make a noticeable difference in practice.

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