I recently churned my ADSL from G-Node to Internode. I had been with G-Node for a bit over 6 months, and had never been happy with their service. With seemingly perpetual routing/speed issues and expensive plans it was time for a change.

Internode, however, simply rock. A mature ISP that seems to actually care about its customers. I could list all the great things about Internode but instead I thought I’d post a quick comparison between the two ISPs I did mostly out of curiosity. Before and after the churn, I pinged and tracerouted several hosts I use frequently, recording the results. All this was done from my laptop over a local wireless LAN between 8 and 10 pm. I also tried to reduce link utilization to a minimum. ADSL is the same speed (1500/256 kbps). It’s probably not a statistically significant study, but as a snapshot it illustrates quite well what I had to put up with on G-Node.

(Had to stick results in a separate page since Wordpress doesn’t handle tables in posts too well.)