NBN Co's plans to increase speeds on upper tier NBN fixed lines is good news if you need more speed -- but what's that likely to do to NBN plan prices? Here's my thoughts:
In the process of having #NBN upgrade my #FTTC connection to #FTTP.
Yesterday, while I was not at home, an NBN tech came and installed the NBN Utility Box that lives on the outside of the home. They must have also dragged in the new fibre cable as well.
Howver they didn't run the new fibre cable in a conduit between the existing old Telstra connection point and into the Utility Box, but rather just strung it across (and not meeting any of NBN's own minimum bend radius requirements).
Not sure if I should be happy with the quality of this installation or not?
#aus peeps: do you need to get your own modem for #NBN if you upgrade to #FTTP?
Looking at plans because it looks like our house is eligible, but most of them are trying to sell a wifi modem with the plan. Since we have our own mesh wifi, I should just need a modem, and was assuming that this would come with the NBN fibre installation. Is this the case?
Will be nice not to have the internet speeds crater every time it rains and the Telstra pit floods.
How good is the broadband in the next suburb across? If you live in NSW, there's now a way to check. Also in not-at-all-shock-news, regional broadband coverage is still awful.
@kcarruthers if it is anything like mine, I'll be having outages for today, tomorrow and the day after from 7am-7pm.... Dropping down from 50MBps to zero isn't a big jump anyways I guess..... O-o #NBN
@skua
Telecommunications is essential national infrastructure.
Alienating if from the Public Good might not technically be treason, but it betrayed the nation. Time to de-privatise what should never have been privatised.
I remember being laughed at when I said 100Mbps wouldn't be enough for users 10 years back, and I stand by it. Game updates at 20GB+, everyone streaming their own stuff, everyone sharing rich content, 100Mbps is the bare minimum needed to exist in the current world.
It's a pity that no one has ever asked Turnbull if he regrets lying about 25Mbps being enough for an #NBN
Anyone have views on quality of after sales service from Exetel for 100Mbps or higher NBN services? I’m on FTTP at 100Mbps with Optus. I’ve never had a problem in the almost 8yrs I’ve had it, that wasn’t resolved in less than 12hrs, but I’m trying to cut costs or increase speed. So temptingly for the same money I pay per month for my Optus service I can get a 225Mbps service from Exetel, at least for the first 2 years with no lock-in, then the equivalent monthly cost goes up. #NBN#FTTP
Well the #nbn has been out most of the day, and this is a new one. Never heard of having to transport equipment from another state and kinda surprised there’s no spares in Sydney
I put together a script to log some statistics off our VDSL modem after a series of weird problems with our quaint Australian internet service,
Now I have a detailed record of the upstream bandwidth getting gradually worse (with no visible pattern or correlation) for a month, and bouncing back after its been power cycled...
So probably scripting a modem reboot once a day is what I actually should have automated 🙄