OK, I am in Hamilton and have been upgraded to FibreMax 2 days ago. It all went well by the way and works fine. However I like to test it to see how fast it really is.

Using the Spark Speedtest page bouncing off the Auckland server I get a speed reading of 150Mbps down and 250Mbps+ up, and the speed graph is up and down all over the place.

Wellington server is about the same, Christchurch reads a lot slower (but I acknowledge the infrastructure in the upper South Island is probably under stress).

BUT when I use the Wellington Vodafone Speedtest server it reports the correct speed of 940+Mbps downstream and about 420Mbps upstream.

Does this simply mean the Spark servers are all overloaded? I suspect it does and therefore wonder what the point is of even having a server if it can't dish up the correct statistics.