Thread: NBN who's happy with theirs?

We don't answer the home phone. Everyone who we want to talk to has our mobiles.

Our mobile coverage at home is vague at best, was better in the AMP’s days so we have to keep our Telstra landline. However we can have times when the landline and internet are down for three or four days with zero restoration effort from Telstra. Tried NBN via satellite a few years ago and absolutely useless, would take hours to download a document let alone try and download a video. Had Istar and Optus satellite ‘services’ before NBN and completely useless, no idea how people actually run business via these.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

We don't answer the home phone. Everyone who we want to talk to has our mobiles.

Yep, used to do that, then figured if I wasn't going to answer it, why even plug it in? I don't even have a phone that could plug into it now even if I wanted to and no BS evening calls to deal with.

Originally Posted by 1950landy

We have as late a charities that become quite rude when you say no we have given all out allotted charity money this year. I just hang up on them & cross them off the list of charities we give to.

The people who call "for and on behalf of" are parasites that take most of your donation and give the charity a piddling amount, they take upwards or 75%.

Originally Posted by travelrover

Our mobile coverage at home is vague at best, was better in the AMP’s days so we have to keep our Telstra landline. However we can have times when the landline and internet are down for three or four days with zero restoration effort from Telstra. Tried NBN via satellite a few years ago and absolutely useless, would take hours to download a document let alone try and download a video. Had Istar and Optus satellite ‘services’ before NBN and completely useless, no idea how people actually run business via these.

We are not far from you at Bilpin and have had NBN satellite available for a year or so. I was waiting for the Bilpin fixed wireless coverage to be publicised, but that has happened, and we are outside the coverage area. So the only options are crappy satellite, or to continue with ADSL which gets between 400Kbps and occasionally 1Mbps. Hard to believe we are less than 75kms from the Sydney CBD.

Originally Posted by Homestar

Yep, used to do that, then figured if I wasn't going to answer it, why even plug it in? I don't even have a phone that could plug into it now even if I wanted to and no BS evening calls to deal with.

I still those BS calls,on my mobile,any time of day.

They get an earful,and don't seem to call back

But not as many as on the landline.

Originally Posted by Disco4Dave

We are not far from you at Bilpin and have had NBN satellite available for a year or so. I was waiting for the Bilpin fixed wireless coverage to be publicised, but that has happened, and we are outside the coverage area. So the only options are crappy satellite, or to continue with ADSL which gets between 400Kbps and occasionally 1Mbps. Hard to believe we are less than 75kms from the Sydney CBD.

I guess the bonus is it’s ADSL 2, but it’s ridiculously slow. We have a 4G Telstra Wi-Fi tower just up the hill but are lucky to get better than 1 bar.

Speed test on our home Optus NBN while watching the State of Origin:
36 download
13 upload