Aussie Broadband?

[rick130]

The NBN is arriving in a month or so and Aussie seems to be flavour of the month on Whirlpool as you aren't locked in, so...

What size data limit are people chewing through with a bit of movie/TV downloading and Netflix?

I watch 2/10's of bugger all TV atm, free to air is a waste of time, a bit of ABC News 24 and MotoGP when it's on, but some of the shows on Netflix look good.

So what are peoples usage and experience so far?

[jonesfam]

Rick
We got 1000mb per month at our Ravenshoe place on wireless type NBN.
We are only there on holidays now but at the time we got it & for the first 12 months or so SWMBO & 5 kids lived there.

With Telstra TV, Netflix, an X-Box, 3 tablets & normal computer usage we never got above 3/4 of the 1000mb.

The kids flog it U-Tube) & that bloody X-Box used heaps but we never got close to using it all.
No buffering delays either.[bigsmile1]

Very cool & I wish we had it in Doomadgee.

Jonesfam
PS The 1000mb plan & the next 1 down did not have that bigger price difference (with Telstra anyway) & we thought the kids are only going to use more as time goes on.

[JDNSW]

My four grandkids, at their home in Yass, have an unlimited plan, and together with a bit of netflix and stan that their parents watch, have no problem going way over 1,000GB, mostly youtube.

[rick130]

Thank you.

So 500gb @ an average of 43mb/s during the evening should be sufficient for just lil ol me. [biggrin]

It'll be nice to have half decent internet again. I had wireless in Canberra and it was expensive and worse than ordinary.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

We just had that free upgrade from Telstra,,
hard to get my head around 40 something mbps--- :Thump:

[DiscoMick]

The NBN is arriving in a month or so and Aussie seems to be flavour of the month on Whirlpool as you aren't locked in, so...

What size data limit are people chewing through with a bit of movie/TV downloading and Netflix?

I watch 2/10's of bugger all TV atm, free to air is a waste of time, a bit of ABC News 24 and MotoGP when it's on, but some of the shows on Netflix look good.

So what are peoples usage and experience so far?Check what speed it will actually deliver, as opposed to what they promised, as they will rarely deliver full speed.
For example we are supposed to have 25mbps, but speed tests rarely go above 10-12.
Even at my work, which has full fibre NBN, I just tested it and got 33 download and 10 upload.
So don't waste your money paying for 100 when it is unlikely to go anywhere near that.

[101RRS]

I dont need hi speeds - the cost of delivery with NBN at the slowest speed is $10 per month more than my ADSL2+ which has about the same speed as the bottom NBN speed for the same service.

As an alternative to the NBN I can go iiNET VDSL2 but it is faster again but doesn't have lower speeds as NBN - they are cost effective for similar packages but their speeds are higher than I need.

[Classic88]

Haven't watched free to air in literally years. Netflix and YouTube Red pretty much cover everything we want to watch.

We use the TPG Unlimited plan which is $60 pm and is good enough to stream programmes and run Google Home. Only issue I have really had is slow upload speeds when working from home and needing to send documents around. Their customer service is pretty good and it's been reliable. Can't really see any need to switch to their NBN package.

[DiscoMick]

Haven't watched free to air in literally years. Netflix and YouTube Red pretty much cover everything we want to watch.

We use the TPG Unlimited plan which is $60 pm and is good enough to stream programmes and run Google Home. Only issue I have really had is slow upload speeds when working from home and needing to send documents around. Their customer service is pretty good and it's been reliable. Can't really see any need to switch to their NBN package.
Once the NBN becomes available in an area you are forced to switch to it within a certain period of time and the ADSL is cut off.

[cripesamighty]

I was within hearing range of some Telstra people the other day who were talking about the NBN. Their take on it was the network that Telstra sold the government was supposed to be decomissioned as it was obsolete and too hard to maintain. Instead they on-sold it for a profit, as the Telstra nodes still need to be used, so Telstra is a massive winner. A big reason for getting rid of it was the cabling used in the old network was quite fragile - any knocks or kinks led to shorts in the system and the whole length of cabling needed to be tossed as it couldn't adequately be repaired. The kicker is, Telstra has been holding off on 5G which has been ready for half a decade, until they could offload their obsolete, maintenance intensive, slower system. If this is true and not just water cooler gossip, surely the politicians and bureaucrats who signed off on this need to be held accountable?

[DiscoMick]

The whole obsolete copper network was supposed to be bypassed with fibre from exchanges to premises, but then Abbott and Turnbull decided to use copper from street nodes to premises, so we didn't get fibre, which is the method for the future. It's a classic case of cost-cutting causing a stuff up.

[EastFreo]

We get our service on the farm via Skymuster - limited to 60GB a month!

My family suffered internet withdrawal when we moved from the city and our 1000GB a month (which we never got near using even with constant Netflix and Xbox).

Have to say lowering the definition quality of Netflix made a huge difference to managing data usage and we didn’t feel it was much worse.

[bsperka]

I dont need hi speeds - the cost of delivery with NBN at the slowest speed is $10 per month more than my ADSL2+ which has about the same speed as the bottom NBN speed for the same service.

As an alternative to the NBN I can go iiNET VDSL2 but it is faster again but doesn't have lower speeds as NBN - they are cost effective for similar packages but their speeds are higher than I need.You have 18 months after the NBN arrives to switch to it. Written into the legislation. So VDSL won't be available as an option and you'll need to switch to NBN.