Thread: NBN who's happy with theirs?

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Because we are forced to do it whether we need to or not.
If I had the choice, I'd still be on ASDL. The first. Not 2 or 2+.

Didn't the American revolutionary war start because of something similar? Time we chucked our tea bags into Cabbage Tree creek, I reckon.

Originally Posted by bob10

Didn't the American revolutionary war start because of something similar? Time we chucked our tea bags into Cabbage Tree creek, I reckon.

We already did.
It made no difference.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

We already did.
It made no difference.

Damn, so much for history

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Interesting experience.
Interesting in that, in your opinion, they're all hamstrung by NBNCo and yet, by purchasing more bandwidth, Telstra are able to get around the NBNCo hamstringing. Oh, and yes, Telstra do pass that extra cost onto their customer.
I'm tipping, if the other ISPs paid for extra bandwidth, they too would have customers with higher internet speeds during times of peak demand.
As has been mentioned many times before, generally the problem is not NBNCo. The FTTP/FTTH technology is capable of gigabit speeds to the home. It's up to the ISPs to ensure they have purchased adequate bandwidth to service their customers during peak load.


Bob, I have two choices of advice for you.
1. If you are happy with your current ISP, you should be able to negotiate a deal which does not involve a contract term. This will be to your advantage as you will be able to evaluate their performance over a few months and, if you are not impressed, move to another ISP without penalty. If you are happy with them, you won't need to change your emails, etc. This is what I did.
2. As Zeros has indicated, Telstra are the best, fastest and most reliable ISP. Not to say they don't have any problems. You could purchase your internet from them and pay the premium.

Mostly correct, however I'm not saying Telstra are able to get around NBN hamstringing, nor that they are the best ...yet.

Since switching to Telstra, my speed improved marginally, but it is still only at their stated minimum 25Mbps. I'm not happy with that in the middle of a capital city. Telstra say that's the best I can expect from NBN because FTTN.

...but the bigger problem is that my connection has been totally dropping out for months and recently dropped out altogether ie: no connection at all..

Iinet did nothing to assist over 6 months when the problem started. I'd been an iinet customer for almost 20 years. Made no difference. Took it to TIO. Made no difference.

At least since changing to Telstra they are organising for an NBN tech to come this week. ...I'll believe it when I see it! And I'll let you guys know how it goes.

The jury is still out IMO

Happy enough with our ADSL .NBN connection would be by satelite wich does not sound to appealing so sounds like we just ignore till we get shutdown

AM

Originally Posted by Zeros

Mostly correct, however I'm not saying Telstra are able to get around NBN hamstringing, nor that they are the best ...yet.

Since switching to Telstra, my speed improved marginally, but it is still only at their stated minimum 25Mbps. I'm not happy with that in the middle of a capital city. Telstra say that's the best I can expect from NBN because FTTN.

...but the bigger problem is that my connection has been totally dropping out for months and recently dropped out altogether ie: no connection at all..

Iinet did nothing to assist over 6 months. At least since changing to Telstra they are organising for an NBN tech to come this week. ...I'll believe it when I see it! And I'll let you guys know how it goes.

The jury is still out IMO

I'd say what I typed was all correct.
At the moment, I am using FTTN. It's great. Way faster than I need and very reliable, at least, has been to date. It's with Optus, so the owner tells me.
Normally, I use a 12Mbs FTTP connection. Usually it works well but, on Saturday nights when lots of people are Netflixing, it slows down horribly. Still plenty fast enough for me, usually, but sometimes it slows down almost to dialup speeds. I seem to remember it got down to about 250kbs at one stage. Oh, and the ISPs router keeps falling over. Not NBNCos router. That stays up. The phone still works. It is plugged into the UNI-V port on the NBNCo router, not the ISP router.

Everyone's speed requirements are different. 25Mbps would be adequate for me (for now) but tech requirements change fast...in 5 years, I'm not so sure.

25 Mbps might be adequate also if it's stable. My speeds were dropping to 6Mbps or nothing at all, every ten mins or so. Now nothing at all.

...we'll see.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Because we are forced to do it whether we need to or not.
If I had the choice, I'd still be on ASDL. The first. Not 2 or 2+.

I am still on ADSL and it is a bit faster than it used to be but very expensive..... no deals are to be found and I still need to pay for a land line.
And NBN isn't coming to me so I am not sure what the future holds and I am not sure I will have a landline when the rest of town is converted to NBN

Ian
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