It always bugs me to read the word "speed" in documents like these when they mean "data rate". The speed for all cable-bound technologies involved is about the same give or take a few percent and it's measured in metres/second.
That taken into account, the figures given in the report are
believable and reflect my experience here in NZ. What the report
doesn't mention is pricing - HFC starts from NZ$53 (US$34) a month
with my provider (Vodafone), Fibre Max from NZ$89 (US$57) - what
you can get depends on where you are.
BTW (Dave already knows) - we've gotten ourselves a Starlink unit
as a technology reference platform at the School, and I took it on
its first outing last week. We have a roaming subscription (NZ$199
/ US$126) so don't expect top data rates. We went to a park in
Auckland as campus is too built up and too H&S encumbered for
operation on a roof. This is what we saw on 3 interleaved tests
using speedtest.net in the early afternoon (all figures in Mb/s).
|
Server |
Test 1 |
|
|
Test 2 |
|
|
Test 3 |
|
|
Average |
|
|
|
|
up |
down |
ping |
up |
down |
ping |
up |
down |
ping |
up |
down |
ping |
|
Spark |
15.13 |
76.01 |
38 |
4.18 |
74.09 |
4.18 |
11.52 |
75.39 |
92 |
10.28 |
75.16 |
44.73 |
|
Vocusgroup |
9.74 |
64.85 |
54 |
1.4 |
76.56 |
31 |
12.27 |
54.42 |
36 |
7.80 |
65.28 |
40.33 |
|
MyRepublic |
6.74 |
176.1 |
33 |
10.99 |
129.3 |
63 |
11.98 |
110.6 |
40 |
9.90 |
138.68 |
45.33 |
|
Kordia |
3.01 |
124.1 |
43 |
14.29 |
150.3 |
32 |
2.39 |
85 |
63 |
6.56 |
119.82 |
46.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Average: |
8.66 |
110.27 |
42.00 |
7.72 |
107.58 |
32.55 |
9.54 |
81.36 |
57.75 |
8.64 |
99.74 |
44.10 |
Caveat: The park was still Central Auckland, so in an environment
where there would have been very few subscribers for many miles
around. Physical latency to / from satellite should have been well
under 10 ms, so if Dave's rabbiting on about too much latency and
bufferbloat in Starlink, he has a serious point here. Even
accounting for use of South Island gateways, fibre backhaul to
Auckland and BDP-sized buffers along the way, these numbers are
not a good look at all!
https://comcom.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0028/295804/MBNZ-Spring-Report-2022-27-October-2022.pdf
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