Every time we move house my first blog post is always an update on what the NBN internet speeds are at our new place. This time is no exception.
What is different this time is that, instead of renting, we’ve now bought a house in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. (Yay!)
Compared to our last place, the upload and download speeds at our new house are around 3% faster – which is cool.
A graphic titled ‘2022 NBN update: speeds up 3%’. The graphic shows two sets of bar charts, one with a heading of ‘average download speeds’ and the other with a heading of ‘average upload speeds’ — both showing download/upload speeds in megabits per second, or Mbps.
There are six bars in each chart, one each for the years 2009, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022. Both download and upload bars increase dramatically in size from 2009 (when the internet connection types was ADSL) to 2015 (when the internet connection type was FTTB).
The bars were highest in 2018, with 105.2 Mbps download speeds and 37.2 Mbps upload speeds in Kingsville. The connection type in this location was FTTP. In 2022 the bars show 94.7 Mbps download speeds and 18.9 Mbps upload speeds in Melbourne’s north. The connection type in this location is FTTC.
Our NBN connection type is still FTTC though. But that’s okay, the speeds we’re currently getting are sufficient for our needs.
There’s just two of us here, so Nadia and I can stream multiple 4K videos simultaneously without a hitch. And both of us can seamlessly participate in 1080p video conferences at the same time as well.
Of course, the second NBN Co give us the opportunity to upgrade our connection to FTTP, we’ll jump on that straight away :)
For now, though, I’m super happy with what we’ve got.