Australian internet speeds improving at snail's pace

My Broadband v Reality has been running a State of the Internet online survey here.

On 24 November 2016 the organisers tweeted some interim survey results:

Which ISP do you use?

Telstra 26.2%

iiNet 14.7%

Internode 11.7%

TPG 10.4%

Optus 9.2%

Skymesh 6.7%

These are the five most common Internet service providers named by survey respondents

What type of Internet connection?

ADSL 54.9%

Satellite 10.4%

FttP 9.4%

HFC 8.1%

FttN 6.1%

Median download speed of the 400 survey respondents was 11Mbps.

Average download speed was 22.9Mbps

Average cost of Internet plan : $84.34 per month

To place these preliminary results in perspective here are the April-June 2016 Top 10 average connectivity rankings found in Akamai Technologies latest State of the Internet report:

https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/state-of-the-internet/akamai-q2-2016-internet-connectivity-executive-review.pdf

Here is how Australia officially compares with some of its trading partners:

https://www.akamai.com/us/en/our-thinking/state-of-the-internet-report/state-of-the-internet-connectivity-visualization.jsp