Do you have NBN?
- Thread starter Demoivre
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Surely someone is techy enough to have NBN
Not about being techy enough, its about whether its in your area or not.
And as far as I know, the plans available for it aren't very good.
I've still only got ADSL.
A movie might take 8 hours. If I could keep a connection that long.
I've been travelling for a while, and I can notice a big difference in normal tasks. In many places, wifi in a cafe or accommodation is far better than what I have at home. In fact, availability of wifi has generally been excellent, perhaps 75% of connections have been really fast. That's in Guatemala (though not quite as good there), Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Belize and Mexico.
A movie might take 8 hours. If I could keep a connection that long.
I've been travelling for a while, and I can notice a big difference in normal tasks. In many places, wifi in a cafe or accommodation is far better than what I have at home. In fact, availability of wifi has generally been excellent, perhaps 75% of connections have been really fast. That's in Guatemala (though not quite as good there), Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Belize and Mexico.
Yes, Australia is quite 3rd world when it comes to internet. Thats why i can't comprehend the desire to not improve it
Alot of it is due to the costs involved. It's more cheaper for apartments like Hong Kong to pump a line through the building connecting hundreds of households, in comparison having to connect each individual household like AUS
I've been in a lot of small towns and a couple of big cities. For instance, in one town in Panama, I was 6km from town with houses well apart. They already had a very fast internet, which was due to be upgraded to an even faster one in a few months.
Where I live in Australia, they have not upgraded because they were waiting for NBN. years later they are still waiting.
In Cairns NBN is only available right in the CBD. What I was suprised to read is that existing landline users who don't even want Internet *have* to switch over to NBN, no choice.
GeoffW, yes I found South and Central America to be very well connected. Every place I stayed had free Wifi. As you can see those regions have so many more pipes than Australia. Like roads and rail, Australia is just so vast to connect and the costs are huge. By comparison New Zealand is compact and comparatively easy to connect which I beleieve is why the software industry in New Zealand is so well developed - I beleieve much of the global banking software originates from there.
Lol, is NBN just about how fast you can download a pirated movie? It was claimed it would improve productivity. Personally I think it might reduce productivity as people will just download more pirated stuff and surf porn faster!
GeoffW, yes I found South and Central America to be very well connected. Every place I stayed had free Wifi. As you can see those regions have so many more pipes than Australia. Like roads and rail, Australia is just so vast to connect and the costs are huge. By comparison New Zealand is compact and comparatively easy to connect which I beleieve is why the software industry in New Zealand is so well developed - I beleieve much of the global banking software originates from there.
Lol, is NBN just about how fast you can download a pirated movie? It was claimed it would improve productivity. Personally I think it might reduce productivity as people will just download more pirated stuff and surf porn faster!
I guess it depends where the bottlenecks are. NBN is certainly an advantage if you are exchanging data within Australia, but given that we only have limited pipes to the rest of the world, providing everyone with high speed access is pointless if we hit a bottleneck as soon as we exchange data outside of Australia.
Given Australia is ranked last in the world for Internet ... ?
I switched to Spirit Telecom fibre internet 50/20 some months ago, free upgrade to 50/50 a few weeks back. It is a bit faster than Optus ADSL but not life changing in the way that going from dial-up to broadband was.
Running the speed test at http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ on somersoft.com gives me a total time of 1.92s for 144KB, mostly waiting on the server. Larger file uploads to my site own are not significantly faster, most probably because it's shared hosting and possibly throttled somewhere. But given the price I'm happy.
Running the speed test at http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ on somersoft.com gives me a total time of 1.92s for 144KB, mostly waiting on the server. Larger file uploads to my site own are not significantly faster, most probably because it's shared hosting and possibly throttled somewhere. But given the price I'm happy.
We where one of the first areas in Brisbane to have it....and didn't we find out about it.
We where bombarded with phone calls, mail, salespeople knocking at the door trying to switch us over the NBN network.
When it first rolled out the cheapest monthly plan was $50 more then the ADSL plan I had. For 18 months the phone calls and sales people didn't give up.
Eventually the monthly plan matched my ADSL plan so I swapped over to the NBN. Well you don't actually just swap it over....not in my case anyhow.
Guy says "Yep beauty, we will be here Monday to install it"
Come home Monday wife tells me phone and internet not working. A Telstra techie had come around, pulled the old copper wire out then tells her the NBN guys will be here in 3 weeks to do the install.
So for 3 weeks we had no phone/internet. Finally we got the NBN installed after many heated phone calls to Telstra.
It is faster...the wife tells me it is anyhow.
But if you are getting it installed allow for the 3 boxes that they need to mount somewhere. 2 boxes are 220 x 220 x 100 and the 3rd is a wireless network box. They are UGLY boxes and they wanted to mount these above the splashback in our newly renovated kitchen. I couldn't believe them.
So word of advice, mount them in you garage or a closet/laundry cupboard.
We where bombarded with phone calls, mail, salespeople knocking at the door trying to switch us over the NBN network.
When it first rolled out the cheapest monthly plan was $50 more then the ADSL plan I had. For 18 months the phone calls and sales people didn't give up.
Eventually the monthly plan matched my ADSL plan so I swapped over to the NBN. Well you don't actually just swap it over....not in my case anyhow.
Guy says "Yep beauty, we will be here Monday to install it"
Come home Monday wife tells me phone and internet not working. A Telstra techie had come around, pulled the old copper wire out then tells her the NBN guys will be here in 3 weeks to do the install.
So for 3 weeks we had no phone/internet. Finally we got the NBN installed after many heated phone calls to Telstra.
It is faster...the wife tells me it is anyhow.
But if you are getting it installed allow for the 3 boxes that they need to mount somewhere. 2 boxes are 220 x 220 x 100 and the 3rd is a wireless network box. They are UGLY boxes and they wanted to mount these above the splashback in our newly renovated kitchen. I couldn't believe them.
So word of advice, mount them in you garage or a closet/laundry cupboard.
I'm a luddite in a lot of respects and firmly believe that the original nbn proposed was pie in the sky but the current system also falls short.
Fibre to the node is fine provided that the subscribers who want the high speeds can pay for fibre from the node to the property. For the rest ftn will do.
It was fine to do some of the more expensive experimental installs first but business in cbd & suburban sites should be the priority (but this would delay country roll out).
Fibre to the node is fine provided that the subscribers who want the high speeds can pay for fibre from the node to the property. For the rest ftn will do.
It was fine to do some of the more expensive experimental installs first but business in cbd & suburban sites should be the priority (but this would delay country roll out).
We where one of the first areas in Brisbane to have it....and didn't we find out about it.
We where bombarded with phone calls, mail, salespeople knocking at the door trying to switch us over the NBN network.
When it first rolled out the cheapest monthly plan was $50 more then the ADSL plan I had. For 18 months the phone calls and sales people didn't give up.
Eventually the monthly plan matched my ADSL plan so I swapped over to the NBN. Well you don't actually just swap it over....not in my case anyhow.
Guy says "Yep beauty, we will be here Monday to install it"
Come home Monday wife tells me phone and internet not working. A Telstra techie had come around, pulled the old copper wire out then tells her the NBN guys will be here in 3 weeks to do the install.
So for 3 weeks we had no phone/internet. Finally we got the NBN installed after many heated phone calls to Telstra.
It is faster...the wife tells me it is anyhow.
But if you are getting it installed allow for the 3 boxes that they need to mount somewhere. 2 boxes are 220 x 220 x 100 and the 3rd is a wireless network box. They are UGLY boxes and they wanted to mount these above the splashback in our newly renovated kitchen. I couldn't believe them.
So word of advice, mount them in you garage or a closet/laundry cupboard.
cm or mm?
I would be stoked if I could get fibre to the node at my place. Unfortunately, although I am 7km from the Perth CBD, I have never been on any rollout plan even though NBN is within my city block. With NBN that close, I am hoping that the FTTN rollout speeds things up and that one day I see my house on a rollout plan!
