I’ll really annoy you by saying that VDSL2 (the tech you are using) supports up to around 250mbit throughput but no Aussie ISP has enabled that option. Your modem probably already supports it because its a pretty old standard.
FTTN can in theory get higher speeds, but hardly anyone has a line short and high quality enough to actually achieve them so NBN Co doesn’t even bother.
They’re actually upgrading the Fixed Wireless network to 5G already as we speak. All customers will be upgraded to 100/20 capability and the wholesale price will match other technologies. This means those on 75/10 will receive this automatically, and for free. From mid-2024, 90% of customers will be upgraded to 200-250/20 capability, with the same wholesale price as the 100/20 offering. This aligns with the speed tier upgrades in the OP. They will also start offering a Superfast tier at 400/20-40 to 80% of customers. Part of the upgrades include ensuring peak throughput, and doubling the range of each tower to enable new connections to a bunch of satellite customers.
Likely all of it as it is a no-cost change at the wholesale end, but of course it’s an excuse to reshuffle the pricing brackets and adjust CVC to cut costs and increase profits.
It looks like the current top 1000/50 tier might get a bump up to 1000/100 though.
I’m on 1000/50 and while a bump to 100 upload would be nice, they really need to bump it up more. 250 minimum. Or something like 500/500 would be nice.
It looks like the current top 1000/50 tier might get a bump up to 1000/100 though.
My understanding is that the gigabit tier is only available over FTTP… So why aren’t the speeds symmetric? Practically every other country that has gigabit fibre has symmetric speeds. With more and more people storing data “in the cloud”, upload speeds are more important than ever.
I live in the USA now and even the lowest speed tiers with ISPs offering fibre (300Mbps in my area) are symmetric.
Interesting… My mum couldn’t get it at her place for some reason. She’s with Optus and they said she’d have to wait for fiber to be installed to get the faster plans.
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