That's cable though, right? I'm on ADSL, so there's no hope for anything like what you're experiencing, especially at my distance from the exchange. TPG has been messing about in the exchange, looking at the network advisories. I assume their network "engineers" just dropped in to take a massive dump on the equipment, slap on a "TPG wuz 'ere" sticker and then promptly exited the building.
Yup. I'm not saying my experience will be remotely like anyone else's, more just saying it's weird how my service has improved dramatically even though they've been bought by TPG. But yeah, despite their assertions I have strong doubts performance will get better or even stay the same under the new owners, at least on ADSL.
Sounds like a fault with speedtest, try downloading a linux iso from a local mirror or even something from Steam and see what speeds you get. DOCSIS3.1 is coming but it's not even in trial yet.
I should also add you can do more with DOCSIS3.0 but no-one is bothering in Australia to my knowledge.
I'm sure it isn't, in Whirlpool someone else said they saw an improvement as well.
This is their results, mine were near-identical. From Steam I was getting something stupid like ~28MB/s (yup, mega
bytes)... that's what made me do a speed test and look for info on Whirlpool.
Edit:
Fun fact: Michael Bowe was my boss close to 20 years ago in my first IT job, back when dialup was king. Now he works for TransACT/iiNet/TPG (I guess).