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TrueNet
Accelerate the movement towards a world class Internet broadband service
TrueNet is an independent company dedicated to the accurate measurement and reporting of broadband measurement. A joint venture between two New Zealand experts: the open source IT experts of Catalyst IT and a company specialising in broadband reporting analysis, Jonette Consulting. TrueNet was launched by the founders in July 2010 to fill a gap in the independence, accuracy and depth of monitoring and analysis of broadband services being offered to New Zealanders.
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Rural Broadband - the Poor Country Cousin
Friday, 20 March 2015, 5:00 pm | TrueNet
The Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) funded by Government is having an immense impact, halving download times for upgraded connections, but still not as good as urban broadband. More >>
TrueNet Tests Surprise - ADSL Speed is More Consistent
Wednesday, 25 February 2015, 1:56 pm | TrueNet
TrueNet Broadband speed tests show surprising improvements in the consistency of ADSL performance in our third year of publishing results. What appeared to be excellent consistency of speed in December 2103, would now be uncompetitive. More >>
Vodafone Tops International Speed Test
Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 5:24 pm | TrueNet
ISPs are increasingly raising their performance across many of the regular TrueNet test measurements. The exceptions include, ADSL & VDSL File Download speeds from the USA (Dallas) where Vodafone is well ahead of the rest, and the range of Latency ... More >>
Rural Broadband no match for Urban Areas
Tuesday, 23 December 2014, 9:05 am | TrueNet
TrueNet's quarterly Rural Broadband report shows a big mismatch between rural and urban areas. In November, Panelists with Rural ADSL took twice as long to load our group of Live Webpages compared to Urban ADSL Panelists. More >>
NZ Broadband Speed Accelerates in 2014
Tuesday, 16 December 2014, 2:34 pm | TrueNet
The average NZ broadband speed improved by 34% in 2014, from 10Mb/s to 14Mb/s. The acceleration is caused by increasing uptake of faster Cable, VDSL and Fibre services. More >>
CallPlus Network Merger lifts Orcon
Friday, 21 November 2014, 4:50 pm | TrueNet
TrueNet's broadband performance measurements for October show that the Callplus brands of Slingshot , Orcon and Flip have very similar results, suggesting their network is almost fully merged. More >>
Congestion on UFB Fibre
Wednesday, 29 October 2014, 11:22 am | TrueNet
This month the first signs of congestion on UFB fibre connections show, with market leader Snap's average speed on its 100Mb/s product dropping by 10Mb/s in the evening. This reduces the 100Mb/s product to just 80Mb/s during the time most people use it. More >>
Spark Fibre a Standout Performer
Wednesday, 17 September 2014, 1:29 pm | TrueNet
In August, new entrant Spark blitzed the TrueNet UFB fibre results with a sizzling best for International file download speeds to Sydney, along with the quickest times to download both New Zealand and Australian Live webpages. Bigpipe , was easily the ... More >>
Australian Webpages download quicker in NZ
Friday, 29 August 2014, 12:16 pm | TrueNet
TrueNet tests show that New Zealand's investment in Fibre to the Node (FTTN) from 2007 to 2011 improved the performance of our telephone line broadband, which is now significantly better than comparable Australian networks. More >>
Rural Broadband Users: Are they missing out?
Monday, 21 July 2014, 1:16 pm | TrueNet
TrueNet measures broadband in both urban and rural locations. Standard (Full Speed) Rural ADSL speed performance has declined in the last 2.5 years while at the same time Urban ADSL performance has increased markedly. More >>
June Urban Broadband Report
Tuesday, 15 July 2014, 3:28 pm | TrueNet
New Zealand median speed for ADSL is 9Mb/s but for Australia it was just 3Mb/s in TrueNet's June results. More >>
May 2014 Broadband Report
Thursday, 26 June 2014, 10:44 am | TrueNet
Slingshot, Orcon & their stablemate Flip are all the best performers for webpage downloads this month, the only ISPs achieving less than 5 seconds to download all the websites we test. More >>
April Report: Orcon Fibre Best for Live Webpage Downloads
Wednesday, 28 May 2014, 4:46 pm | TrueNet
Orcon Fibre Best for Live Webpage Downloads For the month of April. TrueNet’s Live Webpage download tests show that Orcon Fibre is quicker than all other products, and Fibre services are superior to other technologies. More >>
Live Website Download Comparison Exposes ISPs
Wednesday, 23 April 2014, 5:16 pm | TrueNet
TrueNet's new focus is on the time taken to download 8 live websites. The smaller ISPs came out on top with a standout performance from Voyager VDSL measured at 2.5 seconds download speed for all websites. Vodafone ADSL had the biggest discrepancy ... More >>
NZ ADSL outperforms UK and USA
Tuesday, 15 April 2014, 3:06 pm | TrueNet
Since TrueNet began operations in 2010, their focus on publishing Speed by Time of Day (ToD) performance has driven NZ ISPs to compete. This is not the case in the USA, or the UK where similar measurements over a longer period have not resulted ... More >>
Vodafone Cable Speed Matches Fibre
Tuesday, 25 March 2014, 4:01 pm | TrueNet
A significant improvement in Vodafone Cable file download speeds, and Time of Day performance sees Cable speeds matching high speed Fibre. More >>
ISPS Show Superior Speed In The New Year
Wednesday, 26 February 2014, 11:52 am | TrueNet
Since January 2013, TrueNet's Time of Day speed comparisons across all ISPs have improved markedly - from 90% of maximum speed, to over 95% by January 2014. More >>
Fibre Upload Speeds Extraordinary
Monday, 13 January 2014, 3:21 pm | TrueNet
Upload speed is critical to many new activities on the web. For your friends to see you clearly on Skype, using the "cloud", or simply uploading pictures are some of the activities that require faster upload speeds. More >>
Big Improvement to ADSL Broadband Performance in 2013
Monday, 16 December 2013, 4:40 pm | TrueNet
A review of ADSL download times inside New Zealand reveal major improvements across four ISPs during 2013. More >>
Telecom Tops VDSL Speed Measure
Tuesday, 26 November 2013, 3:43 pm | TrueNet
Telecom VDSL is now the best performing VDSL provider. Ultra Fast Broadband using fibre technology show speeds far superior to any other technology. More >>
