So I'm spending the long weekend in Taranaki on the farm and setting up an Apple TV for my brother and it's dog slow.

Some investigation shows both houses connect at about 7.6mb and there is a cabinet right near the houses, according to the old man a new cable of sorts was run to the cabinet recently I do recall the connection being closer to 2mb last year so I'm assuming the cabinet has had an upgrade.

So for a rural connection I was thinking 7.6mb is great and Apple TV / Netflix should work. Not so, browsing in General is very slow and streaming is out of the question. A speedtest from the house shows a connection anywhere between 0.9 and 1.2mb, nowhere near the connection speed.

Modem is an old telecom Thompson that only supports 802.11g so I'm replacing that, I don't think it's having any issues though. House has a master filter that was professionally installed.

So what is the likely reason for a good connection but slow throughput? Old cabinet with slow back haul? Any way to find out if it's scheduled for an upgrade (given the recent cable run).

Thanks