TPG tops Netflix speed rankings

Australian traffic has beaten Netflix's expectations

TPG has taken top spot in Netflix's inaugural comparison of the Internet speeds achieved by the streaming service's Australian customers.

TPG customers accessing the video-on-demand service achieved an average speed of 3.63 megabits per second, according to the April rankings.

The average Australian download speed was 2.82Mbps.

Netflix provides the rankings for each country it operates in and updates them monthly.

TPG was followed by Optus (3.27Mbps), iiNet (3.24Mbps), Primus (3.03Mbps), Exetel (2.56Mbps) and M2 subsidiary Dodo (2.29Mbps). Telstra came last in the ranking, averaging 2.23Mbps across fibre, cable and DSL connections to the video service.

The overall speed ranking for Australia places it 18th out of the 29 countries Netflix monitors.

Netflix launched in Australia in March.

"Performance for Australian ISPs was impacted by consumer demand exceeding the forecasts Netflix provided," a Netflix blog entry stated.

"We are working closely with these ISPs and expect performance to improve in the coming months."

Source: http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/australia

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