Thread: NBN who's happy with theirs?

11 months since the green noodle box went in up the street I'm told there's finally a port available for me. Can't wait for my internet to go from bad to worse.

Originally Posted by bee utey

11 months since the green noodle box went in up the street I'm told there's finally a port available for me. Can't wait for my internet to go from bad to worse.

Well, as I said earlier, what would be required to improve speeds is for a government to cut the CVC costs and encourage the ISPs to buy more bandwidth. Overnight, the NBN has cut those costs for ISPs by 43%, which should make a big difference.

Sorry the link is on The Australian, and probably behind a paywall, but for some reason the ABC has decided not to report on it, or at least not on the front page of their news website, which is unfortunate as this is big news in NBN land.

Nocookies | The Australian

For those that can't read The Australian site, I think this is free from the AFR
NBN drops prices in attempt to fix crawling connections | afr.com

And on the ABC:
NBN drops the price of internet for telcos, but will consumers get cheaper, faster internet? - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Optus to compensate 8,700 customers for slow NBN speeds - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)


ACCC takes Optus to court for allegedly misleading 20,000 customers - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

I was advised last January that I could connect to the NBN but have been holding off until the new Year to connect. I receiver an email from the NBN yesterday stating our connection to the NBN network has been delayed & will not be ready for connection before 14th Sep 2018 & they will contact me again when they are ready to connect , so that should take me through to some time late 2019 before I need to connect. & still have internet.

Talk about a poisoned chalice. It's amazing what total government incompetence can achieve, instead of a next generation gold standard system we have a hodgepodge of outdated cobbled together technology's delivering a very substandard outcome. Just goes to show what can be achieved if you put a lot of effort into not trying hard enough

Earlier this week Telstra advised me that my ADSL download has been quadrupled to 200 Gig at no extra cost for being a 'valued customer' and iinet is offering me triple the download via NBN satellite at 2/3 the cost but at a very questionable 5 to 12Mb/s download crawl.

What is also unexplainable is the deterioration in ADSL quality over the last 12 months. Telstras speed test shows no difference (unsurprisingly) but the latency and drop out/failures is appalling.

Hmmm ........................ think I'll let sleeping dogs lie.

Deano

Originally Posted by DeanoH

Talk about a poisoned chalice. It's amazing what total government incompetence can achieve, instead of a next generation gold standard system we have a hodgepodge of outdated cobbled together technology's delivering a very substandard outcome. Just goes to show what can be achieved if you put a lot of effort into not trying hard enough

Earlier this week Telstra advised me that my ADSL download has been quadrupled to 200 Gig at no extra cost for being a 'valued customer' and iinet is offering me triple the download via NBN satellite at 2/3 the cost but at a very questionable 5 to 12Mb/s download crawl.

What is also unexplainable is the deterioration in ADSL quality over the last 12 months. Telstras speed test shows no difference (unsurprisingly) but the latency and drop out/failures is appalling.

Hmmm ........................ think I'll let sleeping dogs lie.

Deano

Gee that's very generous of Telstra to upgrade you, when the rest of us with other companies are getting unlimited ADSL2 and cheaper.
As for the quality deterioration, that is just a ploy, slow you down, so it conditions you for how fast the New NBN is, which is probably the quality you were getting before.
Mine is pretty slow today.
12.03 Mbps

	Mirror: iiNet		Data: 14 MB
	Test Time: 10.009 seconds		Thu, Dec 21, 2017 9:03 AM
	ISP: iiNet		1.50 MB/s