Less than a day after launching his NBN comparison website, a Liberal-leaning university student has been hailed on social media, accused of being a covert agent for the Labor Party and taken a verbal slap from Malcolm Turnbull.

James Brotchie's site, howfastisthenbn.com.au, lets visitors compare the speeds possible under Labor's national broadband network with the minimum guaranteed under the Coalition's alternative. Since the website went live on Tuesday afternoon, it has been visited nearly 80,000 times and received nearly 30,000 "likes" on Facebook.

Screen shot: James Brotchie's website howfastisthenbn.com.au.

The Labor Party has piggybacked on the enthusiasm, with the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, sharing it on his Facebook page and his press office spreading it on Twitter.