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Posted: **Thu May 19, 2016 9:46 am**

Wedgie wrote:ISPs can make a big difference too.

they certainly can. Telstra wouldnt offer me any land based service at all. supposedly they couldnt offer adsl, couldnt offer cable (despite there being a cable running past the house, something about the cable going in before the house was built so too bad) and so would only offer me satelite..... im 17 kilometres from the cbd and thats the best they could do? lol

thankfully my house just scraped in to the nbn fibre rollout (my fence is the boundary) so i dont need to worry about it any more. well, until the libs really decide to go neanderthal and start replacing the fibre back to copper that they seem to be so in love with

Posted: **Thu May 19, 2016 10:36 am**

tipper wrote:
Keefy wrote:
Gozu wrote:
tipper wrote:
ill take some speed tests tonight when i get home Benny just for you just to prove im not bullshitting. mind you, i know the pain of slow net speeds. i suffered through nearly 9 years in this house with 1mbps on a good day, when it wasnt raining, and you held your tongue just right..... however, having now tasted the good life, ill never buy another house that doesnt have fibre to the premises. ill compromise on nearly everything else, as long as it isnt relying on ancient technology to connect to the modern world...

What would be the cause of 1mbps speed old wiring in the house? How much would that cost to fix? I don't even get that about 0.6mbps!

Quality of wiring
Distance from the exchange

This. House was brand new. Just miles away from the exchange, and the copper between here and there is older than god.

Thats not uncommon for old areas that are been developed.

Just because new houses are in the area does not mean Telstra do anything.

Posted: **Sun May 22, 2016 7:23 pm**

Telstra were letting the copper rot in the ground - that is slowly turn into copper oxide and hydroxide long before the NBN was proposed. I've seen inside some of the pits. They did string some underground fibre across my farm near Hahndorf back in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Subsequently I think they decided it was too costly to keep putting in and planned to let the copper rot and force everybody on to their mobile tower data system, which is even now expensive and patchy (perhaps due to oversubscribing).

However, I've been in Spain France and the UK over the last few weeks and logged on to fibre and cable systems via wifi at hotels and at friends' homes. My impression was that it was certainly faster when it was working but still tended to drop outs rather more often than was desirable. I'd be happy to get about 25mbps so long as it didn't drop out...

Posted: **Sat Oct 29, 2016 9:58 am**

Internode have advised me FTTN will be available to me in February. (So have Telstra.)
Any improvement on my present 4.7Mbps will be fine - will probably start with the 25/5Mpbs option.

Posted: **Sun Oct 30, 2016 4:46 pm**

I think i will be getting it by the end of the year.

I think ill be looking at these guys https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/resi ... pare-tabs4

Seem to be very good value

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:35 pm**

I recently got a free upgrade from NBN Silver (nominal 25Mbps) to Gold (nominal 50Mbps) and checked on it - I'm getting 47+ for downloads and 18+ for uploads consistently. I've been on the NBN since March 2017 and have had 3 episodes of loss of service each fixed by re-booting the modem.

Posted: **Sun Apr 28, 2019 8:24 pm**

Australia slips three spots to 62nd in global broadband speed rankings. 62nd!

Posted: **Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:38 pm**

Q. wrote:Australia slips three spots to 62nd in global broadband speed rankings. 62nd!

Wow, that's bad, where can we see the list for speed rankings mate?

Posted: **Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:49 pm**

The Dark Knight wrote:
Q. wrote:Australia slips three spots to 62nd in global broadband speed rankings. 62nd!
Wow, that's bad, where can we see the list for speed rankings mate?

https://www.speedtest.net/global-index#fixed

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