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Very interesting, I didn't know many people got > 100mpbs without paying for the infra. I am going off the fact that (as you may have seen in the news) a lot of

Very interesting, I didn't know many people got > 100mpbs without paying for the infra. I am going off the fact that (as you may have seen in the news) a lot of ISPs got in trouble for advertising and selling 100mbps when a huge amount (majority?) of consumers could possibly pay for that without realising they'd never get it. After that made the news I noticed much more prominent caveats on 100mbps tiers, and many telcos dropped their top plan to 75mbps or even 50. I didn't realise some places were genuinely getting 1Gbps. Amazing!

justinclift 3y ago
> a lot of ISPs got in trouble for advertising and selling 100mbps when a huge amount ... never get it. Ahhh, yeah. I'm with Launtel (https://launtel.net.au https://launtel.net.au), who seem to be extremely technically clueful and the opposite of the shady places that are around (Dodo, etc). So I've been with them in Melb, Syd, and now Brisbane. Melb speed was 100/40, Syd was 50/20, and here is Bris currently on 400/50. At all locations, the download speed has been "as advertised" or better. Technically the connection here can do 1000/50, and when I tested it the download rates were in the 80-90MB/s range for various things (isos, etc). But that's $15 (AUD) extra per month while 40-50MB/s is totally fine for my purposes. :) Really wish Steam downloads were faster than 5-6MB/s though. :/
- nhinck 3y ago
  Have you played around with what region you're downloading from? You can change it manually and it may be worth checking out whether or not Sydney/Melbourne offer better download speeds than Brisbane.
  - justinclift 3y ago
    I thought I'd tested that before and there wasn't a difference. But testing again now - just in case I was misremembering - and Civ 6 is downloading from the Melb server at ~15MB/s currently. Thanks for prompting me! :) --- Testing the Sydney server now too, and that's ~20MB/s. Looks like a solid win there as well. :)
    - nhinck 3y ago
      Well it's not what it could be at least it's better.
      - justinclift 3y ago
        Interestingly, when testing Steam downloads from Syd and Bris servers just now - 4:10am local time - (downloading Control Ultimate Edition this time around), both of them were able to give consistent download rates of ~50MB/s. That's in line with "line speed" for my current NBN plan through Launtel. Might try bumping that up to the 1000/50 plan at some point and see if the download rates go that high too. :)
        justinclift 3y ago
        Trying the same test (downloading Control Ultimate Edition) from the Brisbane server at ~3pm rather than the dead of night gives the same download rate too. ~50MB/s. --- After bumping the NBN connection speed up to 1000/50, and confirming that was effective (eg through speedtest.net), I've retried the download of Control Ultimate Edition. Downloads from the Brisbane server are still mostly around 50MB/s, though the peak download rate was 72.7MB/s (very briefly). Downloads from the Sydney server were mostly around 20MB/s, with a brief peak up to 43.7MB/s. Downloads from the Melbourne server were mostly around 10MB/s, with a peak of 17.1MB/s. Seems like some kind of artificial restriction is in place now, though it could turn out to be something else (tcp buffer config of some sort maybe?). Anyway, it seems like the local server (Brisbane) is now easily the fastest download for me, so I'll be using that from here on. Might as well drop the NBN connection back down to 400/50 as well, as there doesn't currently seem to be an advantage using the higher 1000/50 plan.
- averageRoyalty 3y ago
  Launtel are great, and I've never had any issue getting line speed on Steam from them. Give them a call, the staff are lovely and I'm confident will be happy to help resolve.

justinclift 3y ago

> a lot of ISPs got in trouble for advertising and selling 100mbps when a huge amount ... never get it. Ahhh, yeah. I'm with Launtel (https://launtel.net.au https://launtel.net.au), who seem to be extremely technically clueful and the opposite of the shady places that are around (Dodo, etc). So I've been with them in Melb, Syd, and now Brisbane. Melb speed was 100/40, Syd was 50/20, and here is Bris currently on 400/50. At all locations, the download speed has been "as advertised" or better. Technically the connection here can do 1000/50, and when I tested it the download rates were in the 80-90MB/s range for various things (isos, etc). But that's $15 (AUD) extra per month while 40-50MB/s is totally fine for my purposes. :) Really wish Steam downloads were faster than 5-6MB/s though. :/

nhinck 3y ago
Have you played around with what region you're downloading from? You can change it manually and it may be worth checking out whether or not Sydney/Melbourne offer better download speeds than Brisbane.
- justinclift 3y ago
  I thought I'd tested that before and there wasn't a difference. But testing again now - just in case I was misremembering - and Civ 6 is downloading from the Melb server at ~15MB/s currently. Thanks for prompting me! :) --- Testing the Sydney server now too, and that's ~20MB/s. Looks like a solid win there as well. :)
  - nhinck 3y ago
    Well it's not what it could be at least it's better.
    - justinclift 3y ago
      Interestingly, when testing Steam downloads from Syd and Bris servers just now - 4:10am local time - (downloading Control Ultimate Edition this time around), both of them were able to give consistent download rates of ~50MB/s. That's in line with "line speed" for my current NBN plan through Launtel. Might try bumping that up to the 1000/50 plan at some point and see if the download rates go that high too. :)
      - justinclift 3y ago
        Trying the same test (downloading Control Ultimate Edition) from the Brisbane server at ~3pm rather than the dead of night gives the same download rate too. ~50MB/s. --- After bumping the NBN connection speed up to 1000/50, and confirming that was effective (eg through speedtest.net), I've retried the download of Control Ultimate Edition. Downloads from the Brisbane server are still mostly around 50MB/s, though the peak download rate was 72.7MB/s (very briefly). Downloads from the Sydney server were mostly around 20MB/s, with a brief peak up to 43.7MB/s. Downloads from the Melbourne server were mostly around 10MB/s, with a peak of 17.1MB/s. Seems like some kind of artificial restriction is in place now, though it could turn out to be something else (tcp buffer config of some sort maybe?). Anyway, it seems like the local server (Brisbane) is now easily the fastest download for me, so I'll be using that from here on. Might as well drop the NBN connection back down to 400/50 as well, as there doesn't currently seem to be an advantage using the higher 1000/50 plan.
averageRoyalty 3y ago
Launtel are great, and I've never had any issue getting line speed on Steam from them. Give them a call, the staff are lovely and I'm confident will be happy to help resolve.