The median connection in Melbourne, Australia is around 6/1. I'd count your blessings. Last year my house was only serviced by one ISP and the only connection available was 1.5/0.2 ADSL. Half the modern webpages we go to don't even load at those speeds.
Source? I live in Fitzroy and while I’d agree that it’s generally woeful in Oz that seems a tad low. Experience at multiple rental properties puts it closer to 12/1.
I just got my FTTB NBN last week and I’m getting 94/34. I am over the moon, which will doubtless make some here chuckle. That’s an epic connection for Australia.
My last 4 properties have been 4Mb/s, the aforementioned 1.5Mb/s, a place that had 30Mb/s cable, and now 6Mb/s. All south-eastern suburbs.
I'd say inner suburbs like Fitzroy are probably batting above average. You've got much shorter distances to the DSLAMs there for ADSL2, and more businesses which means more infrastructure.
Obviously the average and median are going to go way up now that they're connecting FTTN and HFC everywhere. From the people I've talked to, the average seems to be around 20-30Mb/s. My parent's house is actually slower now that they've officially installed HFC there (they were getting 30Mb/s on cable, now 20) :/
Woeful is definitely a good word for it. Clusterfuck would be up there too.
