ABPH011 if you're on a gig plan gaddman says you've got issues, If you're a 100Mb plan they look pretty normal.

It says hes on the gig plan - far left of his report card

Believe it or not that result for Spark is totally normal, The SamKnows report card we get sent is showing local traffic results only.

Due to Sparks peering / non-peering to REANNZ that is the speed result to the NZ test server which most likely is going overseas then back again. Its not a true indication of the speeds in general you are going to get to most sites/area's in NZ,

But it is a true indication of what you are getting to REANNZ server for now. You are better to split the results when checking the download speeds and ignore the local speed for spark as it does perform much better then it shows, I have attached a split shot of some SamKnows results.

Below is just one persons results so take it with a grain of salt,

CDN for Netflix

Does Spark not peer with REANNZ at all?! I would of thought they had something hooked up for the N4L connections, I guess it could be just for them, and not the consumer network.

This is my connection on 1Gbps 2degrees:

Remember the "Package" is what the user tells SamKnows, this not validated. The OP should check that his ISP account is really on a Gigabit plan.

Sorry folks, removed my previous reply - replied to someone who had in the meantime deleted his reply...

freitasm:

Sorry folks, removed my previous reply - replied to someone who had in the meantime deleted his reply...

Contact SamKnows support and ask to change the package.

Mikek:

 

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Due to Sparks peering / non-peering to REANNZ that is the speed result to the NZ test server which most likely is going overseas then back again. Its not a true indication of the speeds in general you are going to get to most sites/area's in NZ,

 

But it is a true indication of what you are getting to REANNZ server for now. You are better to split the results when checking the download speeds and ignore the local speed for spark as it does perform much better then it shows, I have attached a split shot of some SamKnows results.

 

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An excellent balanced post there... A small clarification though. It's ONLY a true indication of the speed for Spark customers _Currently_ to the REANNZ network located servers. Any OTHER traffic bouncing via Australia will have much much much better performance. It's an artificial limit external to the Spark network and NOT related to what you would expect if traffic had to bounce via Aussie.

As above, split the results and have a look for yourselves.

Cheers - N

chevrolux:

 

Does Spark not peer with REANNZ at all?! I would of thought they had something hooked up for the N4L connections, I guess it could be just for them, and not the consumer network.

 

Not yet. We're always evaluating the best bang for buck network upgrades though.

N

My monthly report on a 100 plan with Vodafone. Interesting min and max are so close together.

^Richard

Sad to see you go. I hope you didn't base the decision on this Samknows report card. It's grossly misleading.

Cheers - N