Thread: NBN who's happy with theirs?

happy as larry with my telstra dot nbn on vdsl

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Sorry, but ADSL will be shut down.

I assume you were addressing me - I am not talking about ADSL but the local Canberra VDSL2+ network which has nothing to to do with ADSL or the NBN.

"VDSL (Very-high-bitrate Digital Subscriber Line) gives you superfast broadband speeds delivered over our very own Fibre-to-the-Node network in the ACT. The iiNet VDSL2 is only available within the ACT."

The network is the old cable TV fibre network that was installed throughout Canberra in the late 90s and its speed is similar to the NBN network.

Garry

Originally Posted by Slunnie

My fixed wireless speed was good...... was. I guess everybody around here is on it now.

Same here, been on FW for 3 years or so, had better speeds initially but now a bit flaky, especially in the afternoons.

Have had around 5 dropouts in that time, mind you at least 2 of them were related to bass link cable failure so not really an NBN issue TBH. Getting it on in the first place was a bit of a palaver but we were one of the first in our area. Our ISP is pretty good at responding to outages, no complaints so far.

Have tried the different plans but found it pointless paying for top tiers in our situation.

As it stands at the moment, we can stream multiple videos (iView, SBS or YouTube for instance) at 720p on the lowest tier at the worst times for speeds in my area with minimal buffering, performance on the top tiers was pretty much the same in as much as we never had a situation where being on a higher speed would have made a "real" difference for us, we could still stream multiple videos at 720 with probably a bit less buffering at the worst times, windows updates could have been completed a few minutes quicker maybe, Skype a bit less choppy possibly, the change isn't quantifiable for us is what I'm trying to get at.

Figured that regardless of my end if the gubbins at the other end or in between cant support the traffic then all I'm paying a premium for is to drive an average car on a really fast 6 lane hyway, only to get stuck in a jam at the end of the road while everyone gets off. Those that own Ferraris and drive really fast would probably have a benefit to going to a top tier, for us there was no point.

To be honest we got the most gains by upgrading our router from the old ISP supplied one to another newer brand. This made a lot of difference (all our devices are wireless FWIW) more so than the perceived speed increase from being on a higher tier. We also made sure there are no network channel overlaps (neighbours Wi-Fi and the WiiU controller causing interference for instance) and settings are right, my outdoor antenna stays clean (ruddy birds), I prune the one tree that could maybe cause signal degradation, try to minimise crowding on either the 2.4 or 5g networks depending on what I'm trying to do, make sure router firmware is updated, device drivers are the best (not necessarily latest) or most stable, we've done a fair bit around the peripheries to make sure we're optimized and what we have is working well.

So yes, happy enough and better than the at the time alternatives which for us was a 3g box and about a million bucks a month for 5 gig as we didn't have a phone line.

Now lost count of the number of our drop-outs in the last 6 weeks since connected. No contact from the NBN technician despite promise after ticket raised. Very disappointed.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Now lost count of the number of our drop-outs in the last 6 weeks since connected. No contact from the NBN technician despite promise after ticket raised. Very disappointed.

Did you raise the issue through your ISP? Did the ISP send out a tech to check the ISPs equipment and determine it was a NBN problem?
In all the dropout problems I have seen, the problem was found to be the equipment supplied by the ISP. The problems were usually solved by (in my case) upgrading the firmware in the ISPs router or replacing the ISPs router.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Now lost count of the number of our drop-outs in the last 6 weeks since connected. No contact from the NBN technician despite promise after ticket raised. Very disappointed.

Check out this video - there's a few things here that may explain your issues - as Mick said, it isn't likely to be the NBN at fault here but your ISP or a dud router.

Call me a Luddite, but I refuse to participate in any of this NBN business.

Everything I do net wise is done through a mobile phone, via Telstra.

I'm kinda hoping that the download speeds I get now (better than the last adsl landline I had ) will continue, or improve over time.

I only use about 5 gig of data a month at most.

That is all, DL

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Did you raise the issue through your ISP? Did the ISP send out a tech to check the ISPs equipment and determine it was a NBN problem?
In all the dropout problems I have seen, the problem was found to be the equipment supplied by the ISP. The problems were usually solved by (in my case) upgrading the firmware in the ISPs router or replacing the ISPs router.

Yes, we're staring suspiciously at the supplied equipment. Issue raised through Optus. Some tests have been done as part of narrowing the possibilities.