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bone of contention with other broadband surveys is how much trust is put in the user to input their correct details. Initially we'd wanted to note our connection as being 'mobile', but the survey discourages it. "Although all data is valuable for understanding our infrastructure needs, it is encouraged that you also complete this survey at your home address to get a better understanding of network capacity," it says. Selecting a "work" connection brings up the same warning, though the tests are still accepted. For the purpose of this test, we used Sydney's main thoroughfare for the street location, though the actual network connection tested is based in Osaka, Japan. Did the survey take our results or recognise to which ISP we belonged and exclude us?