Internet conditions in Sydney, Australia

Measured as the district of Sydney - Inner, New South WalesLocal time Australia/SydneyMeasured every hour since February 2019Data to 16 Jul 2026
Sites
Grade within Australia
Cmiddle fifth of 416 districts
High confidence · the district’s own measurement
Score
Connectivity score
33/ 100
21th percentile worldwide · 240th of 416 in Australia
Conditions
Typical week
271ms latency
Jitter 89 ms · steadier than 30% of districts worldwide
Sites
Disruptions, last 12 months
1episode · 8 days
Latest ended 16 Jul 2026
Conditions

Where this is

The district the measurement describes.

District outline, KASPR boundary layer

Conditions

The week, hour by hour

Chance of a rough hour, local time. Darker is rougher.

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Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
Steadiest Thu 11:00 (50% chance of a rough hour)Roughest Fri 14:00 (50%)Swing 0.1 points: the hour of the week barely changes the odds here
Score

What makes the score

Five parts, each a percentile among scored districts worldwide (100 = best). The second mark is the same part ranked within Australia.

Speed
14 · 83
Stability
23 · 53
Evening
86 · 78
Reliability
8 · 13
Trend
77 · 90
worldwide percentilewithin AustraliaWeights 30 / 25 / 20 / 20 / 5
Score

Two years of months

Monthly mean latency and jitter. The connectivity index compares responding addresses with the district’s own norm.

2639027692Jul2025Jul2026
latency, msjitter, msConnectivity index +40.0% against a year earlier
Sites

Disruptions

Falls in responding addresses against the district’s own baseline. The record says when, where and how deep, not why.

9 Jul 2026 – 16 Jul 2026Collapse, 8 days, 63% below baselinelatest

Worst hours of a typical week: Fri 14:00, Fri 15:00, Fri 16:00. Chance of a rough hour at the peak: 50%.

Sites

Other cities in Australia

Grades within each country. Each links to its own page.

CMelbourne255 ms

All 100 cities →

What to do with this

Three ways in, one per product.

Check your own locations

Paste your sites or offices and get a grade and a report for each. The first look is free.

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When to connect from Sydney

Pick the people on a call or the audience for a post and see the steadier hours, on the web or in Slack.

Open KASPR Sense →

Monitor Sydney

Alerts the moment the district breaks, the full history, and the data behind this page in the dashboard.

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Questions people ask

Is the internet in Sydney good?
By world standards Sydney sits in the 21th percentile of 15,460 scored districts, with 271 ms typical latency and 89 ms jitter. Within Australia it ranks 240th of 416, in the middle fifth.
When is the internet in Sydney worst?
The roughest slot of a typical week is Fri 14:00, when the chance of a rough hour peaks at 50%. The steadiest is Thu 11:00 at 50%. Between them, the hour of the week barely changes the odds here.
Were there internet outages in Sydney recently?
One episode in the last twelve months, 8 days in all. The latest ran from 9 Jul 2026 to 16 Jul 2026, with responding addresses 63% below the district’s baseline.
How is this measured?
KASPR sends round-trip requests to geolocated IPv4 addresses from the outside, every hour since February 2019, and aggregates the answers by district. No apps, no speed tests, the same method everywhere. The figures describe the district a city centre falls in, at one data vintage.

Source: KASPR Datahaus (pulse.kasprdata.com) · Data to 2026-07-16 · the measurement records timing and depth, not cause · How KASPR measures