Hi All Aussie have "Google Global Cache" boxes, so unless those are overloaded (which does happen from time to time as usage goes up), I do not see an international link latency causing issues. It could be a configuration issues on Aussies network, but even with how good Aussie tech support is getting to someone with enough seniority to actually work out that issue will be hard. Too many people blaming the ISP when an issue is local. :) Cheers Mike On 2026-09-13 8:04 am, Brian May wrote:
FRussell Coker via luv-main<luv-main@luv.asn.au> writes:
According to the above site my home Internet connection gets 530.46Mbps download and 45.87Mbps upload.
When watching YouTube at 1080p resolution at 2* speed with Google-Chrome as the browser I get timeouts.
What could be the cause of this? How would I go about diagnosing a problem of Internet speed that doesn't show up in speedtest.net?
Is there any FOSS software for checking link quality, something I could run on one of my servers and look for packet loss on high speed data transfers? I have been seeing random issues with youtube recently - was on 500/200 AussieBroadband plan last time it happened, my research suggested the problem was with youtube...
Right now I notice that AussieBroadband app has a notification about increase latency to International Services. Sinced the 4th, now expected to be fixed on the 17th. Due to "Third to a third-party fault affecting international network infrastructure...". I am guessing this could potentially affect other ISPs too.
My Youtube issues started before that date however.
I'm paying $95/month for Internode (now TPG) NBN. Having IPv6 is very important to me and I am willing to pay extra for that (options of saving money while not having IPv6 are not interesting to me). If I could pay less for the same level of service then that would be good. If I could pay the same to another ISP and get better reliability on Youtube then that would be good. Aussie Broadband has really good reputation. Haven't had to do this, but apparently support is particularly good if you are experiencing any sort of NBN issue slowing down your connection.
Static IPv4 relatively expensive (particularly compared with Internode), and more then 1 static IPv4 address ($5/address/month) requires a business plan.
Last I researched, Superloop is good too - possible cheaper then Aussie Broadband, but many people complaining support is terrible.
I think both have IPv6. Aussie Broodband has given me a /48, I think Internode only issued /56. Not that I ever was in any danger of running out... I think Aussie Broadband doesn't guarantee 100% that IPv6 addresses will never change, but in practise they never change and this is has never been an issue for me. I think this means if you get a new connection for some reason, you won't be able to reuse your old IPv6 addresses (addresses are assigned automatically to new connections with their DHCPv6 server and they don't appear to be able to override it).
Aussie Broadband has an Android (and probably IOS) app, that allows doing NBN tests / getting NBN connection info. Without having to ring up and get support to do it for you.