ACCC Reports on NBN Performance

It really isn’t important about how much better you are, what is more important is that you get what you pay for. To give an example of what I mean…if there are 100 people on a 25/5 plan and you get that rate every day and all the time and the other 99 people get the exact same result then you would be better than none ie 0%. If you get only 12/2 and the other 99 get exactly the same result you would still be better than none ie 0%.

When it becomes important is when the others are getting 25/5 and you are getting 12/2 but in this case you would be worse than 100% of others. So it will depend where your 4.6% puts you in regards to everyone else. When looking at the 4.6% you will also notice a cluster graph that will show if your result is lower/higher or close to the middle of the rest (see the following snip)

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From this you can decide if your 4.6% is a good, bad or indifferent indication of your RSP’s & your internet performance. Fixed Wireless (FW) has big issues with Tower congestion ie too many people for the bandwidth available from the Tower. When too many are on then the available data allowance for that tower has to be shared in such a way that everyone gets very poor service, so the 4.6% may just mean that you are sharing the congestion with every other FW user. Not a great hope raiser I know but it is the result of too much poor planning of the FW nbn™ network.

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